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[[underline]] right [[/underline]] by which the Commons pretended only at securing those privileges transmitted them from their [[underline]] Ancestors [[/underline]] but in fact the Kings assent to this Bill produced such a change in the Government as was almost equivalent to a revolution--In the course of the same year the Duke of Buckingham was murdered by Felton who had been a favourite of King James as well as of Charles--But the great article on which the House of Commons broke with the King, & which finally created in Charles a disgust to all Parliaments, was their claim with regard to tonnage & poundage-- The Duty of tonnage & poundage in more ancient times had been commonly a temporary grant of
