190.
**** The plague was really so violent, that it had been moved in the house, at the beginning of the session, to petition the king to adjourn them.

(Journ.

21st June, 1625.) So it was impossible to enter upon grievances, even if there had been any.

The only business of the parliament was to give supply, which was so much wanted by the king, in order to carry on the war in which they had engaged him.
To supply the want of parliamentary aids, Charles issued privy seals for borrowing money from his subjects.[*] The advantage reaped by this expedient was a small compensation for the disgust which it occasioned.
By means, however, of that supply, and by other expedients, he was, though with difficulty, enabled to equip his fleet.

It consisted of eighty vessels, great and small; and carried an board an army of ten thousand men.