The tyrant pleased himself with the thought that he might avenge himself on a people who had been impatient of his despotism by inflicting on them at parting all the evils of anarchy.

He ordered the Great Seal and the writs for the new Parliament to be brought to his apartment.

The writs which could be found he threw into the fire.

Those which had been already sent out he annulled by an instrument drawn up in legal form.

To Feversham he wrote a letter which could be understood only as a command to disband the army.