ABSTRACT
As these words foreshadowed, the State had entered on a period of probation; at the end of it one of three things would occur. Either Parliament would meet again in unchanged humour and win the disputed sovereignty; or the King would so far modify his politics as to conciliate a conservative people and obtain a friendly consultative Parliament on the Elizabet ban model; or lastly, he would, like the monarchs of Spain and France, levy a permanent and well-disciplined army, override all law and custom, and never again summon the Estates.
