more to the like effect. The
commons transmitted this petition to the lords, and the king "willed
that the lords of his council do and provide for the said suppliant as
in their discretions shall be thought convenient and reasonable." This
imprisonment of Young, however, had happened six years before, in
consequence of a motion made by him that, the king then having no issue,
the duke of York might be declared heir-apparent to the crown. In the
present session, when the duke was protector, he thought it well-timed
to prefer his claim to remuneration.[241]

There is a remarkable precedent in the 9th of Henry IV., and perhaps the
earliest authority for two eminent maxims of parliamentary law--that the
commons possess an exclusive right of originating money bills, and that
the king ought not to take notice of matters pending in parliament. A
quarrel broke out between the two houses upon this ground; and as we
have not before seen the commons venture to clash openly with their
superiors, the circumstance is for this additional reason worthy of
attention. As it has been little noticed, I shall translate the whole
record.

"Friday the second day of December, which was the last day of the
parliament, the commons came before the king and the lords in
parliament, and there, by command of the king, a schedule of indemnity
touching a certain altercation moved between the lords and commons was
read; and on this it was commanded by our said lord the king that the
said schedule should be entered of record in the roll of parliament; of
which schedule the tenor is as follows: Be it remembered, that on Monday
the 21st day of November, the king our sovereign lord being in the
council-chamber in the abbey of Gloucester,[242] the lords spiritual and
temporal for this present parliament assembled being then in his
presence, a debate took place among them about the state of the kingdom,
and its defence to resist the malice of the enemies who on every side
prepare to molest the said kingdom and its faithful subjects, and how no
man can resist this malice, unless, for the safeguard and defence of his
said kingdom, our sovereign lord the king has some notable aid and
subsidy granted to him in his present parliament. And therefore it was
demanded of the said lords by way of question what aid would be
sufficient and requisite in these circumstances? To which question it
was answered by the said lords severally, that, considering the
necessity