The facility with which he departed from this pretension, is another proof that his meaning was innocent.
But had the privileges of parliament been at that time exactly ascertained, or royal power fully limited, could such an imagination ever have been entertained by him, as to think that his proclamations could regulate parliamentary elections?
** Winwood, vol.ii.p.

18, 19.
*** Journ.

26th March, 1604 **** Journ.

3d April, 1604.
v See note RR, at the end of the volume.
v* Camden, in Kennet, p.

375.
The commons were in some perplexity.