Gregory, a lawyer, was chosen; and the election was ratified by the king.

It has ever since been understood, that the choice of the speaker lies in the house; but that the king retains the power of rejecting any person disagreeable to him.
[*] In 1566, the speaker said to Queen Elizabeth, that without her allowance the election of the house was of no significance.

D'Ewes's Journal, p.97.In the parliament 1592, 1593, the speaker, who was Sir Edward Coke, advances a like position.

D'Ewes, p.

459; Townshend, p.35.So that this pretension of the commons seems to have been somewhat new; like many of their other powers and privileges.
Seymour was deemed a great enemy to Danby; and it was the influence of that nobleman, as commonly supposed, which had engaged the king to enter into this ill-timed controversy with the commons.