214.
** Journ.

13th June, 1628.
A commission had likewise been granted, and some money remitted, in order to raise a thousand German horse, and transport them into England.
These were supposed to be levied in order to support the projected impositions or excises, though the number seems insufficient for such a purpose,[*] The house took notice of this design in severe terms: and no measure, surely, could be projected more generally odious to the whole nation.

It must, however, be confessed, that the king was so far right, that he had now at last fallen on the only effectual method for supporting his prerogative.

But at the same time, he should have been sensible that, till provided with a sufficient military force, all his attempts in opposition to the rising spirit of the nation, must in the end prove wholly fruitless; and that the higher he screwed up the springs of government, while he had so little real power to retain them in that forced situation, with more fatal violence must they fly out, when any accident occurred to restore them to their natural action.
The commons next resumed their censure of Buckingham's conduct and behavior, against whom they were implacable.

They agreed to present a remonstrance to the king, in which they recapitulated all national grievances and misfortunes, and omitted no circumstance which could render the whole administration despicable and odious.