ABSTRACT
THE SITUATION IN 155 8 269 the opposition wished to discuss. They retaliated with a wider notion of freedom of speech, culminating in the theory of Peter Wentworth that the house had the right freely to discuss all matters affecting the common weal and to introduce legislation concerned with it. Such complete freedom of speech could not be reconciled with the queen's politic desire to keep 'mysteries of state' in her own hand; the quarrel was fundamental and insoluble.
