The house of lords checked this encroachment; and, what was extraordinary, considering the present humor of the lower house, the latter acquiesced in the sentiments of the peers.
This is almost the only pretension of the English commons in which they have not prevailed.

Happily for the nation, they have been successful in almost all their other claims.

See Parliamentary History, vol.v.p 428, 429, etc.Journ.

4th, 8th, 12th of May, 1621.
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73.
The zeal of the commons immediately moved them, upon their assembling, to take all these transactions into consideration.