Excerpt from The Fall of the Monarchy of Charles I, Vol. 2: 1637-1649; 1640-1642 ON November 3 that famous assembly which was to be known to all time as the Long Parliament, met at Westminster. It was impossible that the view of public affairs which was taken by the King should satisfy the men who now came together from every part of England. They were firmly persuaded, not that a few things had gone wrong, but that everything had gone wrong. The future Cavalier and the future Roundhead were of one mind in this. Nor would they be content to submit the choice of the abuses to be abolished to the reason and conscience of the King. They had resolved to measure the remedies which they desired by their own reason and con science. Charles had by his actions thrust into the foreground the question of Sovereignty, and it could never be put out of sight again. Unhappily it was rather to he wished than to be expected that the claim to supremacy which Parlia ment was justified in putting forward, should have been swollen by no unreasonable demands, and sup ported on no fictitious allegations. The worst result. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.