[168] Bellièvre: ‘Quelques uns de ceux, qui out connaissance des desseins du roi, qui peut-être seroient bien aisés qu’ils ne réussissent pas, m’ont dit, qu’ils sont si bien projetés qu’il y a grande apparence, qu’il vienne à bout de son entreprise.’ [169] March 16, 1639/40. Letters ii. 394. [170] Depêche de Montereuil, 15 Mars. ‘Après un long débat deux propriétaires de fort basse condition out été élus par le peuple.’ [171] A more accurate draught of Pym’s speech than that given by Rushworth is found in the State Paper Office: the speech is there assigned to April 17. The draught which is the basis of Forster’s account (Statesmen iii. 89) seems to be a later amplification. [172] Speech of Rouse, which I do not find noticed in Rushworth or in the Parliamentary History: ‘The root of all our grievances I think to be the endeavour of union betwixt us and Rome.’ [173] Parliament Journal, 16 Caroli, 23 Ap.: ‘The house sat till 3 o’cl. in the afternoon debating the question, whether to give subsidies before a redress of grievances or after. Concluded that the example was dangerous to posterity. The King and Lords had conference about at 8 o’cl.’ (St. P. O.) [174] Dépêche de Montereuil, 1/10 Mai. ‘Le Lieutenant d’Yrland I’emporta contre l’avis de plusieurs’: the only information about this affair which I can find. [175] Parliament Journal. ‘That it was a tranching on the priviledges of the house of commons from the upper house, to chaulke them a way to give supplies first and then to redress grievances; that the honour and thank belongs to them for the subsidies and not to the upper house.’ [176] Speech in Rushworth iii. 1153. Parl. Hist. viii. 467. The original words were ‘His Majesty cannot but resent it, as that which per adventure is without any precedent of such behaviour from subjects to the King, and not suitable to that antient reverence and duty formerly paid by the house of commons to the crown in the cases of this nature.’ [177] ‘For preventing quhairoff [that is to say, one of these declarations] the parliament was broken up.’ So it runs in the Scottish Declaration in Spalding i. 328. [178] The protocol of this sitting, which was destined to exercise so great an influence, is printed in Nalson ii. 208. In the State Paper Office the original document exists among Vane’s papers: there is some doubt however about the right reading. [179] Giustiniano, 25 Maggio: ‘Il re continua nella stabilita resolutione di volere con il mezzo della forza cavare de popoli le contributioni necessarie per sostenere la guerra contra la Scotia.’ Cp. Rushworth iii. 1173, 1179. [180] ‘To set up, maintain, or avow, in any of their realms any independent coactive power, either papal or popular, whether directly or indirectly, is to undermine their great royal office.’ CHAPTER VI. THE SCOTS IN ENGLAND.