By the king's order, he took the mace from the table, which ended their proceedings,[**] and a few days after the parliament was dissolved.
The discontents of the nation ran high, on account of this violent rupture between the king and parliament.

These discontents Charles inflamed by his affectation of a severity which he had not power, nor probably inclination, to carry to extremities.

Sir Miles Hobart, Sir Peter Heyman, Selden, Coriton, Long, Strode, were committed to prison on account of the last tumult in the house, which was called sedition.[***] * The king's power of adjourning, as well as proroguing the parliament, was and is never questioned.

In the nineteenth of the late king, the judges determined, that the adjournment by the king kept the parliament in statu quo until the next sitting, but that then no committees were to meet; but if the adjournment be by the house then the committees and other matters do continue.Parl.Hist, vol v.
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466.
** Rushworth, vol.i.p.