ver,
contains views so important, that he thought it might be admitted as a
footnote]

[Footnote 56: NOTE DDD, p. 465. This protestation is so remarkable, that
it may not be improper to give it in its own words. "The commons now
assembled in parliament, being justly occasioned thereunto, concerning
sundry liberties, franchises, and privileges of parliament, amongst
others here mentioned, do make this protestation following: That the
liberties, franchises, and jurisdictions of parliament are the ancient
and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England;
and that the urgent and arduous affairs concerning the king, state, and
defence of the realm and of the church of England, and the maintenance
and making of laws, and redress of mischiefs and grievances which daily
happen within this realm, are proper subjects and matter of counsel and
debate in parliament; and that, in the handling and proceeding of those
businesses, every member of the house of parliament hath, and of right
ought to have, freedom of speech to propound, treat, reason, and bring
to conclusion the same; and that the commons in parliament have like
liberty and freedom to treat of these matters, in such order as in their
judgment shall seem fittest; and that every member of the said house
hath like freedom from all impeachment, imprisonment, and molestation,
(other than by censure of the house itself,) for or concerning any
speaking, reasoning, or declaring of any matter or matters touching the
parliament or parliament business. And that if any of the said members
be complained of or questioned for any thing done or said in parliament,
the same is to be shown to the king by the advice and assent of all the
commons assembled in parliament, before the king give credence to any
private information." Franklyn, p. 65. Rush, vol. i p. 53. Kennet, p.
747. Coke, p. 77.]

[Footnote 57: NOTE EEE, p. 434. The moment the prince embarked at St.
Andero's, he said to those about him, that it was folly in the Spaniards
to use him so ill, and allow him to depart: a proof that the duke had
made him believe they were insincere in the affair of the marriage and
the Palatinate; for as to his reception in other respects, it had been
altogether unexceptionable. Besides, had not the prince believed the
Spaniards to be insincere, he had no reason to quarrel with them, though
Bucking-* *ham had. It appears, therefore, that Charles himself must
have been deceiv