Carlton's Warning to the Commons

Carlton offered the commons a warning. He painted a dire picture of politics that he had seen abroad in his travels, and warned parliament that they were headed that way if they carried on with fractiousness. Charles intervened at this point and told the lords that any attack on any of their members was an attack on himself. The wound is not from your house, but the house of commons. Parliament was dissolved and sent home. Buckingham's coach had just been mobbed by a crowd of a hundred and 50 sailors who had not been paid. Things were dire. One agument has it that this train smash was indeed caused by a bunch of turbulent lawyers and trouble makers. But there is another