A new session was held this spring; the king, full of hopes of receiving supply; the commons, of circumscribing his prerogative.

The earl of Salisbury, now created treasurer on the death of the earl of Dorset, laid open the king's necessities, first to the peers, then to a committee of the lower house.[***] * The plan of accommodation which James recommended is found in Winwood, (vol.ii.p.

429, 430,) and is the same that was recommended by Henry, as we learn from Jeanin, (tom.iii.

p.
416, 417.) It had long been imagined by historians, from Jeanin's authority, that James had declared to the court of Spain, that he would not support the Dutch in their pretensions to liberty and independence.

But it has since been discovered by Winwood's Memorials, (vol.ii.p.