ns, and which was accordingly remedied. On
the other hand, the knights had professedly annexed conditions to their
intended grant, and required a considerable retrenchment of the royal
prerogatives, particularly with regard to purveyance, and the levying
of the ancient feudal aids for knighting the king's eldest son,
and marrying his eldest daughter. The new parliament, called by the
guardian, retained the same free spirit; and though they offered a large
supply of thirty thousand sacks of wool, no business was concluded;
because the conditions which they annexed appeared too high to be
compensated by a temporary concession. But when Edward himself came over
to England, he summoned another parliament, and he had the interest
to procure a supply on more moderate terms. A confirmation of the two
charters, and of the privileges of boroughs, a pardon for old debts and
trespasses, and a remedy for some abuses in the execution of common law,
were the chief conditions insisted on; and the king, in return for his
concessions on these heads, obtained from the barons and knights an
unusual grant for two years, of the ninth sheaf, lamb, and fleece on
their estates, and from the burgesses a ninth of their movables at their
true value. The whole parliament also granted a duty of forty shillings
on each sack of wool exported, on each three hundred woolfells, and
on each last of leather for the same term of years, but dreading the
arbitrary spirit of the crown, they expressly declared, that this grant
was to continue no longer, and was not to be drawn into precedent. Being
soon after sensible that this supply, though considerable, and very
unusual in that age, would come in slowly, and would not answer the
king's urgent necessities, proceeding both from his debts and his
preparations for war, they agreed that twenty thousand sacks of wool
should immediately be granted him, and their value be deducted from the
ninths which were afterwards to be levied.

But there appeared at this time another jealousy in the parliament,
which was very reasonable, and was founded on a sentiment that ought
to have engaged them rather to check than support the king in all
those ambitious projects, so little likely to prove successful, and
so dangerous to the nation if they did. Edward, who, before the
commencement of the former campaign, had, in several commissions,
assumed the title of king of France, now more openly, in all public
deeds, gave himself th