A short history of England . position and powers of Buck-ingham and their wish to use theopportunity to put pressure on theking to remove him from his officesand influence. Charles, on the otherhand, resented this as an effort onthe part of parliament to preventhim from choosing his own ministersand to get practical control of thegovernment. He therefore dis-solved parliament, even though ithad voted him only a small sum ofmoney and had done almost nothingin the way of legislation. The next year a new parliament was summoned which took stillstronger ground against Buckingham. The House of Comm
A short history of England . position and powers of Buck-ingham and their wish to use theopportunity to put pressure on theking to remove him from his officesand influence. Charles, on the otherhand, resented this as an effort onthe part of parliament to preventhim from choosing his own ministersand to get practical control of thegovernment. He therefore dis-solved parliament, even though ithad voted him only a small sum ofmoney and had done almost nothingin the way of legislation. The next year a new parliament was summoned which took stillstronger ground against Buckingham. The House of Commonsnow impeached him before the House of Lords, and charged himwith some crimes and many lesser offenses, few of which couldever have been proved. Charles did not wait to let the proof beshown, but in great anger dissolved parliament before it had timeto carry the trial farther or in fact to do anything else. New subjects of discontent now sprang up. In the activepreparations for war made by the king and his ministers there. Duke of Buckingham 414 A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLAND had boon much disregard of the people. Soldiers were billeted1on householders without their consent. When disputes broke outon this account private citizens were punished or had their casessettled by the decisions of the military commanders. Althoughparliament had refused to authorize taxes to carry on the war,the king ordered a forced loan. Thai is to say, the sheriffs andother officials of the king throughout the country were requiredto summon before thorn all the porsons o( any property in theirdistricts and put all the pressure they could, by persuasion, throatof the kings displeasure, and otherwise, upon them to inducethem to lend money to the king. It was well understood thatthe loan was not likely to he repaid, and it was generally felt tobe simply an unauthorized tax. When some men refused to paythe forced loan, they were imprisoned for i time on the mereorder of the king and the privy council withou
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