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260 to compaſs a long parliament, and therefore he was fain to take other indirect ways to gain the ſame point as if he had one. It was the ſecond; who, in the articles alledged againſt him, and confeſſed by him, let us know it was by influencing elections and falſe returns. The words as they ſtand in the rolls, 1 IV. m. 20. are theſe :

“19. Item, Although by ſtatute, and the cuſtom of his realm in the calling of every parliament in every the counties of England, his people ought to be free to chuſe and depute knights