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 servation that were not warranted by the recorded laws; was not this exactly the power claimed by the king in the case of ship money?

The Royalists were assiduous in attempts to sow dissensions in the ranks of the enemy. In familiar conversational style, they told the plain people that they were being used as catspaws to gratify with riches and honor the avarice and ambition of nobles and commons. They insisted that