Richard used the preparations which had been made for the murdered
Prince Edward's coronation for his own (S310). He probably gained
over an influential party by promises of financial reform. In their
address to him at his accession, Parliament said, "Certainly we be
determined rather to adventure and commit us to the peril of our
lives...than to live in such thraldom and bondage as we have lived
long time heretofore, oppressed and injured by extortions and new
impositions, against the laws of God and man, and the liberty, old
policy and laws of this realm, wherein every Englishman is
inherited."[1]
[1] Taswell-Langmead's "Constitutional History of England."