[197] Forster, Statesmen iii. 126. [198] Giustiniano 12/22 Sett: ‘Il tenore di queste artificiose lettere che si va da per tutto spargendo, accresce motivo d’alteratione contro ministri et a ribelli sostenta il favore delli primi applausi.’ [199] ‘Honoured from all antiquitie with the title of his majesty’s own chambre.’ Letter of the Privy Council, 11 Sept. in Rushworth iii. 1262. [200] Windebank to the King, 18 Sept. Clarendon Papers ii. 116. [201] We see from Giustiniano, 15 Sept., that the rumour was, that in a memorial to the King the formal threat had been expressed, ‘di chiamarlo (il parlamento) da se stessi.’ [202] ‘Di tale ardita resolutione--penetrate dalla regina e da ministri le piu particolari notitie ha mandati in diligenza gli avvisi al re consigliandolo a ridursi celeremente in questa citta per divertire quei pregiuditti che ben grandi gli sono irreparabilmente minacciati, quando non si disponga di convocare senza intervallo di momenti il parlamento.’ (Giustiniano, ib). Montereuil (4 Oct.) also heard of the Queen’s influence (‘que la reine y ait fort porté’) on the summoning of Parliament. [203] ‘These things made such impression on them, that we discerned as they satt, how well they were disposed--so that we came about.’ So it is stated in the report of the Lord Privy Seal and Chamberlain, dated October 3, in the State Paper Office, a document which is the more welcome since Windebank’s letter about these proceedings, to which he himself refers, is not in the Clarendon collection. [204] The obscure words of the protocol in Hardwicke, State Papers ii. 247, are explained by the note of Sir Henry Vane, p. 196. [205] Pamphlet of 1643 on the elections of 1640: ‘We elected such as were not known to us by any virtue, but only by crossness to superiors.’ Montereuil reports about the same time that the elections had begun ‘par le choix des personnes, que l’on croit moins portées à favoriser le roi d’Angleterre.’ CHAPTER II. THE FIRST SITTINGS OF THE LONG PARLIAMENT.