743.
**** See note DDD, at the end of the volume.
***** Journ.

18th Dec.

1621.
It was tumultuously voted, at a late hour, and in a thin house; and it was expressed in such general and ambiguous terms,[*] as might serve for a foundation to the most enormous claims, and to the most unwarrantable usurpations upon his prerogative.[**] The meeting of the house might have proved dangerous after so violent a breach.

It was no longer possible, while men were in such a temper, to finish any business.

The king, therefore, prorogued the parliament, and soon after dissolved it by proclamation; in which he also made an apology to the public for his whole conduct.
The leading members of the house, Sir Edward Coke and Sir Robert Philips, were committed to the Tower; Selden Pym, and Mallory, to other prisons.