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 ſuis, ut certas perſonas per ipſum Regem nominatas ut milites comitatuum venire faciant ad Parliamenta ſua, quos quidem milites eidem Regi favents inducere poterat, prout frequentius fecit, quandoq; per minas varias, & terrores, & quandoque per munera ad conſentiendum illis quæ regno fuerant præjudicialia, & populo quamplurimum oneroſa; & ſpecialiter ad concedendum eidem Regi ſubſidium lanarum ad terminum vitæ ſuæ, & aliud ſuſidium as certos annos, ſuum populum nimium opprimendo.”

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 Chooſe and depute Knights for the ſaid Counties to be preſent in Parliament, and to lay open their Grievances, and to proſecute for Remedies thereupon as they think fit, notwithſtanding the ſaid King that in his Parliaments he might obtain his Will which was Raſh, often directed his Mandates to his Sheriffs, that they ſhould Return certain Perſons nominated by the King himſelf as Knights of the Shires, which Knights indeed he could make Plyable to him, and as he very often did, ſometimes by various Threats and Terrors, and ſometimes by Gifts, to Conſent to thoſe Things which were Prejudicial to the Realm, and