ON THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION FROM THE ACCESSION OF
CHARLES I. TO THE DISSOLUTION OF HIS THIRD PARLIAMENT
Parliament of 1625—Its Dissolution—Another Parliament called—
Prosecution of Buckingham—Arbitrary Proceedings towards the
Earls of Arundel and Bristol—Loan demanded by the King—
Several
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committed for Refusal to contribute—They sue for a Habeas
Corpus—Arguments on this Question, which is decided against
them—A Parliament called in 1628—Petition of Right—King's
Reluctance to grant it—Tonnage and Poundage disputed—King
dissolves Parliament—Religious Differences—Prosecution of
Puritans by Bancroft—Growth of High-Church Tenets—Differences
as to the Observance of Sunday—Arminian Controversy—State
Catholics under James—Jealousy of the Court's Favour towards
them—Unconstitutional Tenets promulgated by the High-Church
Party—General Remarks