But Henry having, when he claimed the crown, dropped some obscure hint concerning conquest, which, it was thought, might endanger these privileges, he soon after made a public declaration, that he did not thereby intend to deprive any other of his franchises or liberties; which was the only circumstances where we shall find meaning or common sense in all these transactions.
The subsequent events discover the same headlong violence of conduct, and the same rude notions of civil government.

The deposition of Richard dissolved the parliament: it was necessary to summon a new one: and Henry, in six days after, called together, without any new election, the same members; and this assembly he denominated a new parliament.

They were employed in the usual task of reversing every deed of the opposite party.

All the acts oL the last parliament of Richard, which had been confirmed by their oaths, and by a papal bull, were abrogated: all the acts which had passed in the parliament where Glocester prevailed: which had also been confirmed by their oaths, but which had been abrogated by Richard, were anew established:[**] the answers of Tresifian and the other judges, which a parliament had annulled, but which a new parliament and new judges had approved, here received a second condemnation.
* Knyghton, p.2759.Otterborne, p.

220.
** Cotton, p.