CHAPTER IX. From the Meeting of the Long Parliament to the Beginning of the

FROM THE MEETING OF THE LONG PARLIAMENT TO THE BEGINNING OF THE CIVIL WAR

Character of Long Parliament -- Its salutary Measures -- Triennial Bill -- Other beneficial Laws -- Observations -- Impeachment of Strafford -- Discussion of its Justice -- Act against Dissolution of Parliament without its Consent -- Innovations meditated in the Church -- Schism in the Constitutional Party -- Remonstrance of November 1641 -- Suspicions of the King's Sincerity -- Question of the Militia -- Historical Sketch of Military Force in England -- Incroachments of the Parliament -- Nineteen Propositions -- Discussion of the respective Claims of the two Parties to Support -- Faults of both Page 85