107. The King's household was to be provided for:--they had brought him to that want, that he could not supply his ordinary and necessary expenses without the assistance of his people. 108. Two armies were to be paid, which amounted very near to eighty thousand pounds a month. 109. The people were to be tenderly charged, having been formerly exhausted with many burdensome projects. 110. The difficulties seemed to be insuperable, which by the Divine Providence we have overcome. The contrarieties incompatible, which yet in a great measure we have reconciled. 111. Six subsidies have been granted and a Bill of poll-money, which if it be duly levied, may equal six subsidies more, in all £600,000. 112. Besides we have contracted a debt to the Scots of £220,000, yet God hath so blessed the endeavours of this Parliament, that the kingdom is a great gainer by all these charges. 113. The ship-money is abolished, which cost the kingdom about £200,000 a year. 114. The coat and conduct-money, and other military charges are taken away, which in many countries amounted to little less than the ship-money. 115. The monopolies are all suppressed, whereof some few did prejudice the subject, above £1,000,000 yearly. 116. The soap £100,000. 117. The wine £300,000. 118. The leather must needs exceed both, and salt could be no less than that. {863} 119. Besides the inferior monopolies, which, if they could be exactly computed, would make up a great sum. 120. That which is more beneficial than all this is, that the root of these evils is taken away, which was the arbitrary power pretended to be in His Majesty of taxing the subject, or charging their estates without consent in Parliament, which is now declared to be against law by the judgment of both Houses, and likewise by an Act of Parliament. 121. Another step of great advantage is this, the living grievances, the evil counsellors and actors of these mischiefs have been so quelled. 122. By the justice done upon the Earl of Strafford, the flight of the Lord Finch and Secretary Windebank. 123. The accusation and imprisonment of the Archbishop of Canterbury, of Judge Berkeley; and 124. The impeachment of divers other Bishops and Judges, that it is like not only to be an ease to the present times, but a preservation to the future. 125. The discontinuance of Parliaments is prevented by the Bill for a triennial Parliament, and the abrupt dissolution of this Parliament by another Bill, by which it is provided it shall not be dissolved or adjourned without the consent of both Houses. 126. Which two laws well considered may be thought more advantageous than all the former, because they secure a full operation of the present remedy, and afford a perpetual spring of remedies for the future. 127. The Star Chamber.