The compositions with Catholics, they said, amounted to no less than a toleration, hateful to God, full of dishonor and disprofit to his majesty, and of extreme scandal and grief to his good people: they took notice of the violations of liberty above mentioned, against which the petition of right seems to have provided a sufficient remedy: they mentioned the decay of trade, the unsuccessful expeditions to Cadiz and the Isle of Rhe, the encouragement given to Arminians, the commission for transporting German horse, that for levying illegal impositions; and all these grievances they ascribed solely to the ill conduct of the duke of Buckingham.[**] This remonstrance was, perhaps, not the less provoking to Charles, because, joined to the extreme acrimony of the subject, there were preserved in it, as in most of the remonstrances of that age, an affected civility and submission in the language.

And as it was the first return which he met with for his late beneficial concessions, and for his sacrifices of prerogative,--the greatest by far ever made by an English sovereign,--nothing could be more the object of just and natural indignation.
* Rushworth, vol.i.p.

612.
** Rushworth, vol.i.

p.619.Parl.Hist.vol viii.p.

219, 220, etc.
It was not without good grounds that the commons were so fierce and assuming.