2-624-725 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Scene in the House of Commons: the Speaker coerced, 1629 (1905). Members holding down the Speaker, Sir John Finch, in his chair while resolutions against King Charles I are read out. This led to Charles dissolving Parliament. Parliament would not sit again until 1640. From Cassell's History of England, Vol. II, [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, 1905]