It needed and desired no weapon against a sovereign who embodied national desires, and ruled in accord with the national will.

References to the charter are as rare in parliamentary debates as they are in the pages of Shakespeare.

The best hated instruments of Stuart tyranny were popular institutions under the Tudors; and the Star Chamber itself found its main difficulty in the number of suitors which flocked to a court where the king was judge, the law's delays minimised, counsel's fees moderate, and justice rarely denied merely because it might happen to be illegal.

England in the sixteenth century put its trust in its princes far more than it did in its parliaments; it invested them with attributes almost Divine.

By Tudor majesty the poet was inspired with thoughts of the divinity that doth hedge a king.