But his intention, being so evident, rather put the commons more upon their guard.

Enow of patriots still remained to keep up the ill humor of the house; and men needed but little instruction or rhetoric to recommend to them practices which increased their own importance and consideration.
The weakness of the court, also, could not more evidently appear, than by its being reduced to use so ineffectual an expedient, in order to obtain an influence over the commons.
* Rushworth, vol.i.

p.192.Parl.Hist, vol.vi.p.

407.
** Franklyn, p.113.Rushworth, vol.i.p.

196.
*** It is always an express clause in the writ of summons, that no sheriff shall be chosen; but the contrary practice had often prevailed D'Ewes, p.38.Yet still great doubts were entertained on this head.