Excerpt from Sir John Eliot: A Biography, 1590-1632 I. Opening of the Session, II. The Resolutions for Liberty of the Subject. III. The Petition of Right. IV. Conflict of the Houses. V. Defection of Sir Thomas Wentworth. VI. Two decisive Days. VII. Close of the Session and Appeal to the People. VIII. Retrospect of Work on Committees. I. Opening of the Session. ÆT. 36. Four days before the king went down to open the session some of the leaders of the commons met at Sir Robert Cotton's house. The numbers cannot now be stated; but from a memorandum in Eliot's papers it is certain that among others they comprised himself, Sir Thomas Wentworth and his now brother-in-law Mr. Denzil Holles, Sir Robert Philips, Mr. Pym, Mr. Edward Kyrton, Mr. Selden, and Sir Edward Coke; and that their conference turned mainly on the question whether the impeachment of Buckingham should be revived. Upon this. Eliot's opinion was overruled; and it was further resolved that the subject to which it then was settled to give precedence should have consideration even before attention was given to religious wrongs. These, argued Coke and Selden, concerned the well-being of the kingdom and commonwealth, hut its very being claimed first to be reestablished. 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.