text:  [29] The trial of the seven bishops for declining to obey the king's order in council against what in conscience they believed to be the law of the land is the more strictly a parallel case because as in Ireland the whole Popish part of the population--in effect therefore the whole physical strength of the land--_seemed_ to have arrayed itself on the side of the conspiracy; so in England the only armed force and that close to London was supposed to have been bought over by the systematic indulgence of the king