out any considerable defalcation; to wch purpos I shall not unfitly remember the 51st of Ed. III.,¹ the Parlyament having graunted His Maty an unusuall Subsidy of 4d per teste, and waall (the king old) desiring he would bee pleased to nominate two Earls and two Barons for the expending of what should bee thus collected (as likewise of ye guift of ye Cleargy and Tunnage and Poundage) on the King's wars, it fell into consideration, what might bee fit to alow ye foure for their attendance on the service, upon wcl1 it is recorded, Les Goes se departirent de celle propos, et prierent qe le dit haut Tresorer feust le Recever et Gardein al oeps des dites guerres en manere accoustume.
   10. And1 though upon a guift² the next Parlyament of two Fiefteenes and two Tenths His Maty, then young, was induced to assigne two Merchants of London for ye beestqwing of it upon hys wars, and not otherwise; yet in that at Glocester³ immediately following, the Commons desiring to see the accounts how it, had beene expended, in wch, though the King gave them satisfaction (of hys owne free will, not as of right), yet he added, that it had beene never seene that, of subsidy or other graunt made to the King, in Parlyament or out of Parlyament, account had beene ever rendered to ye Commons or other, but only to ye King and hys officers.⁴
   11. And this constitution of the Commonwealth seemed to me built on very solid grounds of reason for the subjects' happynesse, in respect both of ye Prince and people;—of the King, because had ye Commons a power, as well in seeing how it were disposed, as in giving extraordinary supplies, it were not possible to avoyd questions, disputes, and unldndnesse in ye laying
  ¹  Rot. Parl. 51 Ed. III. No. 19, 20, 21.—T.
    ²  Rot. Parl. 1 Ric. II. No. 27.—I).
    ³  Rot. Parl. at Glocester, 2 Ric. II.—T.
    ⁴  See ye case of Michael de la Pole, Rot, Parl. en My Quaresme, 14 Ed. III. No. 22, 23, 27—T.