Declaration of the King after the Dissolution -- Prosecutions of Eliot and others for Conduct in Parliament -- Of Chambers for refusing to pay Customs -- Commendable Behaviour of Judges in some Instances -- Means adopted to raise the Revenue -- Compositions for Knighthood -- Forest Laws -- Monopolies -- Ship-Money -- Extension of it to inland Places -- Hampden's Refusal to pay -- Arguments on the Case -- Proclamations -- Various arbitrary Proceedings -- Star-Chamber Jurisdiction -- Punishments inflicted by it -- Cases of Bishop Williams, Prynne, etc. -- Laud, his Character -- Lord Strafford -- Correspondence between these two -- Conduct of Laud in the Church -- Prosecution of Puritans -- Favour shown to Catholics -- Tendency to their Religion -- Expectations entertained by them -- Mission of Panzani -- Intrigue of Bishop Montagu with him -- Chillingworth -- Hales -- Character of Clarendon's Writings -- Animadversions on his Account of this Period -- Scots Troubles, and Distress of the Government -- Parliament of April 1640 -- Council of York -- Convocation of Long Parliament Page 1 CHAPTER IX FROM THE MEETING OF THE LONG PARLIAMENT TO THE BEGINNING OF THE CIVIL WAR Character of Long Parliament -- Its salutary Measures -- Triennial Bill -- Other beneficial Laws -- Observations -- Impeachment of Strafford -- Discussion of its Justice -- Act against Dissolution of Parliament without its Consent -- Innovations meditated in the Church -- Schism in the Constitutional Party -- Remonstrance of November 1641 -- Suspicions of the King's Sincerity -- Question of the Militia -- Historical Sketch of Military Force in England -- Incroachments of the Parliament -- Nineteen Propositions -- Discussion of the respective Claims of the two Parties to Support -- Faults of both Page 85 CHAPTER X FROM THE BREAKING OF THE CIVIL WAR TO THE RESTORATION PART I