ABSTRACT
For their part the Commons had matters nearer home on their minds. The repercussions of Charles’s recent fund-raising and war effort seemed to demand attention, and many Members were more disposed to contemplate the immediate past than to look ahead to
another summer’s military activity. Seymour saw other issues as more pressing than supply: ‘How shall we know what to give when we do not know what we enjoy since his Majesty is pleased to take what he thinks fit?’ he argued early in the session; and Sir Walter Erie, a determined resister of the Forced Loan, was not slow in supplying the heads for enquiry into recent threats to the subject’s liberties.
