At laſt they all agreed to fend a meſſage to the King in the name of the whole parliament, that the buſineſs ſhould be defered till Michaelmas, “That, in the mean time they might have trial of the King’s fidelity and benignity, that he proving thus perhaps towards them and their patience in the keeping the charter ſo many times promiſed, and ſo many times bought out, might turn again and deſervedly incline their hearts towards him: and they, as far as their power would extend, would obediently give him a ſupply.” Which, when the King did not like, and by giving no anſwer did not agree to it, the parliament after many fruitleſs debates, day after day, from morning till night, thus broke up; and the nobles of England now made ignoble, went home [then the parliament did not live at court in thoſe days] in the greateſt deſolation and deſpair.
In the ſame year arrived Alienor, the King of Spain’s ſiſter, whom prince Edward had married, with ſuch a retinue of Spaniards, as looked like an invaſion, who, with great pomp, and all ſorts of public rejoicings, were received at London; though with the ſcorn and laughter of the common people at their pride. But grave per-
