... sovereign, suggested to the king and the duke, and which these princes too greedily embraced. They said, that the parliament, though the spirit of party, for the present, attached them to the crown, ... by the surprising boldness of the enterprise, as by the views of profit. He was near succeeding. He had bound and wounded Edwards, the keeper of the jewel-office, and had gotten out of the Tower ... expedient was the shutting up of the exchequer and the retaining of all the payments which should be made into it. It had been usual for the bankers to carry their money to the exchequer, and to advance...