according to the last words,¹ tyll farther order were taken?—but to nether of these would he deliver any positive answer; onely, in generall, That the howse of Commons meant all good to the Protestant religion ; That he was not present when they past, so knewe nothing more then he saw.
   7. But hee, poore Gentleman, beeing soone after cast out, by experyence found how absolute the auctority of that howse was. And this beeing ye first knight of ye shire for Kent was ever ejected, bred much discourse, many affirming if they had a power by vote of excluding any one lawfully chosen, they could, in a very essentiall poynt, alone alter ye law, wdl could not bee but by the King and the three Estates in Parlyament; for every man sitting there by law, the remoeving of hym must make a change of it. Beesides the thing itself might prove full of inconvenience; for the Major part, if more factious, might put out the lesser, though the soberer, and so none admitted according to that of severall Counties, but by their owne opinions, who upon dubious elections might please themselves, not the Counties, in ye choice. But I returne whense I have a little wanderd.
   8, In Lent, 1640-1, sitting at the Assizes in Maydstone, on the Benche, the bill of six subsidies was given me, and the King's Commission under ye great seal for levying of them, shewed me; casting my eye upon it, I observed the Howse of Commons (for Lords I saw none) had named themselves and other Commissioners (called in former tymes Controulers)² for ye levying of them. That they were to bee payd, not in an ordinary way into 
   (continued from page 190) sent them abroad might not turn out, as I suspected it to be, merely to mate trial," etc.—ED.
   ¹  i.e. " To declare men should celebrate it, as it used to be before Laud's regulations with regard to the altar and its services, which these last Resolutions of the House might seem to imply."—ED.
   ²  Rot. Parl. at West., No. 51; 13 Hen. IV. No. 9.—T.