now in question, and which the laws of the land have ever allowed bad
maintained. Let us, therefore, apply by petition to her majesty."

After the speaker told the house that the queen had annulled many of the
patents, Mr. Francis More said, "I must confess, Mr. Speaker, I moved
the house both the last parliament and this, touching this point; but I
never meant (and I hope the house thinketh so) to set limits and bounds
to the prerogative royal." He proceeds to move that thanks should be
given to her majesty; and also that whereas divers speeches have been
moved extravagantly in the house, which, doubtless, have been told
her majesty, and perhaps ill conceived of by her, Mr. Speaker would
apologize, and humbly crave pardon for the same. N. B. These extracts
were taken by Townsend, a member of the house, who was no courtier; and
the extravagance of the speeches seems rather to be on the other side.
It will certainly appear strange to us that this liberty should be
thought extravagant.

However, the queen, notwithstanding her cajoling the house, was so ill
satisfied with these proceedings, that she spoke of them peevishly in
her concluding speech, and told them, that she perceived that private
respects with them were privately masked under public presence. D'Ewes,
p. 619.

There were some other topics in favor of prerogative, still more
extravagant, advanced in the house this parliament. When the question
of the subsidy was before them, Mr. Serjeant Heyle said, "Mr. Speaker,
I marvel much that the house should stand upon granting of a subsidy
or the time of payment, when all we have is her majesty's, and she may
lawfully at her pleasure take it from us; yea, she hath as much right
to all our lands and goods as to any revenue of her crown." At which all
the house hemmed, and laughed, and talked "Well," quoth Serjeant Heyle,
"all your hemming shall not put me out of countenance." So Mr. Speaker
stood up and said, "It is a great disorder that this house should be so
used." So the said serjeant proceeded, and when he had spoken a little
while, the house hemmed again; and so he sat down. In his latter speech,
he said, he could prove his former position by precedents in the time
of Henry III., King John, King Stephen, etc., which was the occasion
of then: hemming. D'Ewes, p. 633. It is observable, that Heyle was an
eminent lawyer, a man of character. Winwood, vol. i. p. 290. And though
the house in general showed their disapp