A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behoves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul from distemper.

After the dissolution of Parliament in 1621 he was one of those placed under house-arrest in January 1622. English Civil War
When the English Civil War began in 1642 Pym became involved in the financial problems heading the Committee of Safety from 4 July 1642. John Pym (1584 – 8 December 1643) was an English parliamentarian leader of the Long Parliament and a prominent critic of Kings James I and then Charles I.