The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution Volume 2; The after-growth of the constitution

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...made office; of the episcopal office,--one faction contending for its entire abolition, the other for the retention of the bishops with diminished powers and subject to parliamentary supervision, the origin By the division which occurred on that question on the 8th parPtest;Cal of February, 1641, the line was first roughly drawn between two political bodies that in the course of time have developed into the two parliamentary parties which, after having been known first as Roundheads and Cavaliers, then as Whigs and Tories, still survive under names so familiar at the pre 1 Cf. Sir J. F. Stephen, Hist, of the Gardiner, Hist. Eng., vol. x. p. 3+ Crim. Law, vol. ii. p. 428. sent day.1 The first ray of hope which thus came to Charles through the break in the ranks of his adversaries was greatly brightened, when on the 10th of the following August he was settlement able to approve a bill confirming the treaty with the Scots, army of that promised a large sum as an indemnity and compensation theScots; for their brotherly assistance in maintaining upon English soil, as a physical support to parliament, the army which was now to be disbanded.2 Immediately upon the consummation of that agreement, Charles hastened to Edinburgh, against the Charles remonstrance of the houses, intent upon the organization of a Edinburgh" counter-revolution, which contemplated the pacification of Scot-fc,"'" land, and the return of the king at the head of an army, to be revolution; composed of Scots as well as of recruits from the English forces in the north, with whose aid he hoped to crush the popular leaders and to reverse the results they had brought about. In furtherance of that design, Charles busied himself at Edinburgh, not only in yielding to all the demands of t...