[280] On the following day appeared in the Gazette a proclamation dissolving that Parliament which of all the fifteen Parliaments held by the Stuarts had been the most obsequious.

[281] Meanwhile new difficulties had arisen in Westminster Hall.

Only a few months had elapsed since some Judges had been turned out and others put in for the purpose of obtaining a decision favourable to the crown in the case of Sir Edward Hales; and already fresh changes were necessary.
The King had scarcely formed that army on which he chiefly depended for the accomplishing of his designs when he found that he could not himself control it.

When war was actually raging in the kingdom a mutineer or a deserter might be tried by a military tribunal and executed by the Provost Marshal.

But there was now profound peace.