rying fortunes of York and Lancaster). That this
sentiment of neutrality was common to the greater mass of the working
classes is obvious from the simultaneous appearance of the club men in
different parts of the country with their motto: 'If you take our cattle,
we will give you battle.'"--G.P. GOOCH, _History of Democratic Ideas in the
Seventeenth Century_.

[57] See _Memorial of English Affairs_.

[58] "By its injudicious treatment of the most popular man in England,
Parliament was arraying against itself a force which only awaited an
opportunity to sweep it away."--G.P. GOOCH, _History of Democratic Ideas in
the Seventeenth Century_.

[59] "So die the Leveller corporals. Strong they, after their sort, for the
liberties of England; resolute to the very death."--CARLYLE.

[60] "Then ensued a scene, the like of which had in all probability never
been witnessed in an English court of justice, and was never again to be
witnessed till the seven bishops were freed by the verdict of a jury from
the rage of James II."--S.R. GARDINER, _History of the Commonwealth_.

[61] Professor C.H. Firth, Lilburne in _Dict. Nat. Biography_.

[62] Winstanley's _New Law of Righteousness_, 1649.

[63] Palgrave. Introduction to Erskine May, _Parliamentary Practice_.

[64] Sir John Eliot, 1629.

[65] Edward II., in 1327, and Richard II., in 1399, had not been deposed
without the consent of Parliament.

[66] "The monarchical regime which was revived under Charles II. broke down
under James II. It was left for the 'glorious Revolution' of 1688, and for
the Hanoverian dynasty, to develop the ingenious system of adjustments and
compromises which is now known, sometimes as cabinet government, sometimes
as parliamentary government."--ILBERT, _Parliament_.

[67] G.P. Gooch, _Annals of Politics and Culture_.

[68] Palmerston's influence in the House of Commons was about as bad in the
nineteenth century.--_See_ BAGEHOT, _The English Constitution_.

[69] "Here and there we find an eminent man, whose public services were so
notorious that it was impossible to avoid rewarding them; but putting aside
those who were in a manner forced upon the Sovereign, it would be idle to
deny that the remainder and, of course, the overwhelming majority, were
marked by a narrowness and illiberality of sentiment, which, more than
anything else, brought the whole order into contempt. No great thinkers, no
great writers, no great orators, no great statesman, non