Excerpt from Select Tracts Relating to the Civil Wars in England, in the Reign of King Charles the First, Vol. 1 of 2: By Writers Who Lived in the Time of Those Wars, and Were Witnesses of the Events Which They Describe<br><br>This part of the History of England is generally con. Sidered as more interesting than 'that of any preceding period of it, because it contains 3m account of the grand struggle between King Charles the First and the people of England, (acting under the direction of the famous Long Parliament that met on the 9d of November, 1640) to determine, Whether he should be permitted to govern them by his sole will and pleasure, as an Absolute Monarch, and without the assistance of a Parliament, (as he had' done very lately for ten years together, before the Civil War began or whether he should be compelled to 'consent to admit the two Houses of Parliament to a participation of the Legjh lative authority with him, so that no new Law could be made, nor any old one be repealed or altered nor my new Tax be imposed upon the People; without their joint consent: to which participation of the Le gislative Power with the two Houses of Parliament, Q] the kings of England, his predecessors, ever sin the creation of the House of Commons by King Ed ward the First, now we year of his reign, 1295, had uniformly consented, as to a known and established maxim of Government.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.