21st May, 1614.
*** Journ.

12th, 21st May, 1614.
**** Journ.

18th April, 1614.
The commons applied to the lords for a conference with regard to the new impositions.

A speech of Neile, bishop of Lincoln, reflecting on the lower house, begat some altercation with the peers;[*] [53] and the king seized the opportunity of dissolving, immediately, with great indignation, a parliament which had shown so firm a resolution of retrenching his prerogative, without communicating, in return, the smallest supply to his necessities.

He carried his resentment so far, as even to throw into prison some of the members who had been the most forward in their opposition to his measures.[**] In vain did he plead, in excuse for this violence, the example of Elizabeth, and other princes of the line of Tudor, as well as Plantagenet.