The king was obliged, in order to arm his followers, to borrow the weapons of the train bands, under promise of restoring them as soon as peace should be settled in the kingdom.
The veneration for parliaments was at this time extreme throughout the nation.[*] The custom of reviling those assemblies for corruption, as it had no pretence, so was it unknown during all former ages.

Few or no instances of their encroaching ambition or selfish claims had hitherto been observed.

Men considered the house of commons in no other light than as the representatives of the nation, whose interest was the same with that of the public, who were the eternal guardians of law and liberty, and whom no motive, but the necessary defence of the people, could ever engage in an opposition to the crown.

The torrent, therefore, of general affection ran to the parliament.

What is the great advantage of popularity, the privilege of affixing epithets fell of course to that party.