Blackstone's Commentaries, vol.iii.p.

454.
* Rushworth, vol.i.p.

35.
During the recess of parliament, the king used every measure to render himself popular with the nation, and to appease the rising ill humor of their representatives.

He had voluntarily offered the parliament to circumscribe his own prerogative, and to abrogate, for the future, his power of granting monopolies.

He now recalled all the patents of that kind and redressed every article of grievance, to the number of thirty-seven, which had ever been complained of in the house of commons.[*] But he gained not the end which he proposed.