The second period of the British Constitution begins with the accession of the House of Tudor, and goes down to 1688 ; it is in substance the history of the growth, development, and gradually acquired supremacy of the new great council. I have no room and no occasion to narrate again the familiar history of the many steps by which the slavish Parliament of Henry VIII grew into the murmuring Parliament of Queen Elizabeth, the mutinous Parliament of James I , and the rebellious Parliament of Charles I