Now concerning your Majesty's servants, and namely the Duke of
Buckingham: We humbly beseech your Majesty to be informed by us your
faithful Commons, who can have no private end but your Majesty's
service, and the good of our country, that it hath been the ancient
constant and undoubted right and usage of Parliaments to question
and complain of all persons, of what degree soever, found grievous
to the Commonwealth, in abusing the power and trust committed to
them by their sovereign. A course approved not only by the examples
in your Father's days of famous memory, but by frequent precedents
in the best and most glorious reigns of your noble progenitors,
appearing both in records and histories; without which liberty
in Parliament no private man, no servant to a king, perhaps no
counsellor, without exposing himself to the hazard of great enmity
and prejudice, can be a means to call great officers in question for
their misdemeanours, but the Commonwealth might languish under their
pressures without redress. And whatsoever we shall do accordingly in
this Parliament, we doubt not but it shall redound to the honour of
the Crown, and welfare of your subjects....