[276] Giustiniano. ‘Avendo apportato querele alle sue communita, che in parlamento tutto sia retto con il solo arbitrio di alcuni pochi, i quali arditamente prese in mano le redini del governo, abbiano impedito agli altri di dichiarare a beneficio commune i sentimenti suoi,--che la liberta della lingua non habbia havuto quel luoco che è di dovere.’ [277] Hacket’s Life of Williams ii. 165. He was especially blamed for the words, ‘that no power could protect against statutes still in force.’ [278] Ed. Nicholas to the King, 27th September: ‘The late crosse orders and unusuall passages in Parliament a little before the recess are so distasteful to the wiser sort, as it hath taken off the edge of their confidence in parliamentary proceedings.’ (Evelyn’s Diary iv. 75.) [279] Giustiniano, 18 Oct.: ‘Universalmente palesa ogn’ uno discontento dei tentativi del parlamento, onde puo credersi che a nuova ridutione si procedera con maggior moderatione e saranno rette le deliberationi dell’ acconsentimento di tutti, non dalla sola passione di pochi.’ [280] ‘There was no way found or resolved on to punish those that disobeyed the same (order of the House).’ Nicholas to the King, 21st October. [281] A remonstrance of the state of the kingdom, presented to the King at Hampton Court, 1st Dec. 1641, in the name of the Commons’ House of Parliament. Rushworth iv. 438. [282] La Ferté, 1/10 Oct. ‘Il a grand credit en Angleterre, et sa caballe, qui est grande, donnera un grand branle aux affaires.’ 16/26 Dec. ‘Le comte d’Holland est toujours très puissant au parlement et très mal a la cour.’ [283] So the Queen declared later. ‘Le Sr. La Ferté avoit commerce particulier avec les parlementaires, même avec personnes de la plus basse condition, qu’il visitoit très soigneusement.’ [284] La Ferté, 31st Oct.: ‘La plupart des Catholiques sont Espagnols.’ [285] From La Ferté’s despatch of 7th Nov. ‘Les plus puissants du parlement luy ont dit, qu’ils étoient resolus de luy parler (au roi d’Angleterre) pour renouveller l’alliance de France, s’unir avec elle, et rompre avec la maison d’Autriche.’ [286] 10th Oct. ‘On a découvert depuis peu, que les partisans d’Espagne faisoient une nouvelle (cabale). Ceux du parlement, qui en ont advis (through Holland) travailleront, aussitôt que le parlement se rassemble, d’eloigner ces personnes la.’ [287] ‘When the woman shall be clothed with the sun, the moon shall be under her feet.’ Verney’s Notes contain the most important particulars of this transaction. Cp. Forster 100. [288] Warwick, Memoirs 202. Notices from D’Ewes’ Diary in Forster’s Historical Essays i. 112. The Camden Society should earn the credit of printing this diary _in extenso_. CHAPTER IX. FORMATION OF A NEW MINISTRY. TUMULTUOUS AGITATION IN THE CAPITAL.