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The papers in this volume cover the five summer months of the year 1640, pregnant with ore 
events, which intervened between the summoning of the Short and Long Parliaments. We behold i 
country, after an interval of eleven years, engaged in the heat of a general election for the ef j 
Parliament of King Charles, usually known as the Short Parliament, Jrom the circumstance that i 
sat only three weeks. The reappearance of Sir Fohn Finch, as Lord Keeper, the man who by hi, 
conduct as Speaker had given occasion to the last violent scenes in the Parliament of 1628-9 ; . 
plainly stated in his opening speech to the Commons that ‘‘the King did not require advice but a 
immediate vote of supplies" —naturally awakened all the old controversies. Then came the worl!| 
famed speech of Fohn Pym, in which he recited a catalogue of all the grievances that at that time Jay 
heavy upon the Commonwealth, and which he declared ‘‘ were in truth more grievous to the King tha 
the subject.” To this followed George, Lord Digby, complaining that the King required supplies % 
carry on a civil war with the Scots, ‘‘ for so I must needs call it, seeing we are of the same religio 
and under the same King.” : i : 
The King, under the influence of Strafford, having gained over the Lords, attempted to dictath 
zo the Commons ; but, standing on their rights, they resolved ‘‘ that ct was a trenching on the privilene| 
of the House for the Upper House to chalk them out a way to give supplies first and then to redresi 
grievances.’ The Commons remaining firm, the King dissolved the Parliament on the 3rd May, 1640 
T hen follow the proceedings of Convocation, which by special licence were allowed to continue thei} 
sittings under Archbishop Laud—the enactment of a Book of Canons, including the ‘‘ et-cetera”’ oath) 
which the majority of the Puritan Clergy refused to take. 
The crossing of the Tyne by the Scotch army, coupled with the want of reliance to be placed o | 
the newly-raised levies, caused great confusion in the Councils of the King. At the same time thi 
difficulty in raising money was so great, that the King could obtain it in no other way but by purchas 
ing goods from the East India Company upon credit, and immediately selling the same in the mare| 
at a loss, for ready money. 
The concluding papers relate to the presentation of the petition of an influential section of th! 
Nobility, detailing the grievances of the nation; and the summons, on the 7th September, of thd 
Magnum Concelsam, an assembly which had not been convoked since Henry V1I.'s reign. | 
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