With regard to the English constitution, he asserted, in his Freeholders Grand Inquest touching our Sovereign Lord the King and his Parliament (1648), that the Lords give counsel only to the king, that the Commons are to perform and consent only to the ordinances of parliament, and that the king alone is the maker of laws, which derive their power purely from his will.
In Bezug zur englischen Verfassung schrieb er 1648 in Freeholders Grand Inquest touching our Sovereign Lord the King and his Parliament, dass die Lords den König nur beraten und die Commons den Parlamentsakten nur ihre Zustimmung geben, während der König die alleinige Quelle der Gesetze sei.