The house of commons consisted of about one hundred and forty; which amounted not to above half of the other house of commons.[**] * Rush.
vol.vi.p.
559. ** Rush.
566, 574, 575. So extremely light had government hitherto lain upon the people that the very name of excise was unknown to them; and among the other evils arising from these domestic wars was the introduction of that impost into England.