He sent immediately for the journals of the commons; and, with his own hand, before the council, he tore out this protestation;[****] [56] and ordered his reasons to be inserted in the council-book.

He was doubly displeased, he said, with the protestation of the lower house, on account of the manner of framing it, as well as of the matter which it contained.
* "Ne sutor ultra crepidam." This expression is imagined to be insolent and disobliging: but it was a Latin proverb familiarly used on all occasions.
** Franklyn, p, 62, 63, 64.

Rushworth, vol.i.p.

46, 47 etc.

Kennet, p.