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The
LIFE
of
the
L
Is.
I,
forcing the Parliament.
Thefe
Examinations and Depofitions were publilhed by
the
Parliament, which did very much to perfwade abundance of People that the
King did but watch white he quieted them with Promifes,to Matter them
by
Force,
and
ufe them
at
his
Pleafure.
And
this
A&ion
was one
of the
greatelt
Caufes
of
the
dangerous
diffidence
of
the King.
444
z.
Another
was this
:
When the Parliament
had
fit
a
Guard upon their
own
Houfe,
(which
they took to be their
Priviledge) the
King difcharged them,
and
fee
another Guard upon them
of
his
choofing
:
which made them
feem
as
much
afraid,
as
if
he had made
them Prifoners,
and would at fome time or
other
com-
mand that Guard to Execute
his
Wrath upon
them;
whereupon they
difmiffed
them,
and called for a
Guard
of
the City Regiments. This
alfo
did increafe
the
Diffidence.
445.33 Another
great Caufe
of
the
Diffidence and
War
was this
:
The
King
was advifèd
no longer to hand
by
,
and
fee
the Parliament affront hint
,
and do
what they lifted
;
but to take
a fuffrcient
Company with him, and to
go fhddenly.
in
Perfon
to the
Houfe, and
there to demand
fome
of
the Leading
Members
to
be
delivered
up to Juftice, and tried
as
Traitors:
Whereupon he goeth
to the
Houfe
of
Commons with
a
Company of
Cavaliers
with
Swords
and Pillola
,
to
have
charged
five
of the Members
of that
Houfe,
and one
of
the
Lords Houfe, with
High Treafon
; wiz.
Mr. Pim, Mr.
Hampden,
Mr.
Hollic,
Mr. Strowd, and Sir Ar-
thur
Hafelrigge
,
and the Lord
Kimbokvn
(after
Earl
of
Manchefter
and
Lord Cham-
berlain)
of
the
Lords
:
But
the King
was
not
fo
fecret or fpeedy in
this
Action,
but the Members
had
notice
of
it before
his
coming, and
abfented themfelves
(be-
ing
together at
an inner Houle in
Red
-Lyon Court
in
Warlingftreet
near
Bread/reef
in
London): And
fo
the King and
his
Company
laid
hands
on none, butwent their
ways.
Had the
five
Membersbeen
there, the
reh
fuppofed
they would
have
taken
them
away by violence.
When the King
was
gone, this Allarm did
call the Houle into fach Apprehen-
fiions,
as
if one
after
another,
their Liberties or
Lives
tnuft
be affaulted
by the
Sword
if
they
pleafed
not
the
Court
:
So
that they
prefently voted
it
a Breach
of
their
Priviledges, and
an
Effect
of the
King's
evil
Counfellors, and publitlted
their Votes
;
to awaken the People
to
refcue
them,
as
if
they werein apparent
Danger.
The
King
being difappointed, publilheth a Paper in which he chargeth the
Members with Treafon,
as
flirting up the
Apprenticesto tumultuous
Petitioning,
et7'e.
But confeffeth
his
Error in
violating
their
Priviledges.
4
46.
4.
And another thing which battened the War,
was,
that theLord
Dig
-
by
and fome other Cavaliers, attempted
at
Kingfton
upon
Thames,
to
have
fudden-
ly got together
a Body
of Horfe;
which the Parliament
took
as
the beginning
of
a War, or an Infurreetion and Rebellion
:
But
the Party
was
diflipatedbefore
they
could
grow
to
any great
Strength;
and
the Parliament
voted him
a
Delinquent,
and
fent to apprehend him and bring
him to
Juftice, with
his
Partakers:
But
he
fled
into
France; and when he wasthere,
the Parliament intercepted
force
of
his
Letters
to
the King, advifing him
to
get away from
London,
to
force place
of
Strength, where
his
Friends might come
to
him;
which they took
as
an
Advife
to him
tobegin
a
War.
Thus
one thing after another
blew
the
Coals.
S
47.
S.
But
of
all
the reE, there
was
nothing that with the People wrought
fo
much,
as
the
frith
Maffacree and Rebellion
:
The
frilly
Papills did
by
anunexpeQ_
ed Infurre&ion,
rife all
over
Ireland at
once, and
feized
upon almoh
all
the
Strengths
of
the
whole Land, and
Dublin
wonderfully efcaped (a Servant
of
Siryobn
Clotworrby's
difcovering
the Plot)
which
was
to
have been furprifed
with
the
reft,
Otlob. 23.
1641.
Two
hundred
thoufand Perlons they murdered, (asyou
may feein
the Earl
of
awry's Anfwer to
a
Petition,
and
in Dr.
Jones's
Narrative
of
the Examinations, and
Sir
Jobn
Temple's
Hiftory, who
was
one
of
the
refident
Juhices :) Men, Women and Children were molt
cruelly ufed; the
Women
rips
up, and filthily ufed when they killed
them, and the Infants
ufèd like
Toads
or
Vermin
:
Thoufands
of
thole that efcaped,
came
hript
and almoft famifhed
to
Dublin,
and afterwards
into
England
to beg their
Bread: Multitudes
of
them
were
driven together into Rivers, and
cah
over
Bridges and
drowned
:
Many Witnef-
fes
twore before the Lords
Juffices,
that
at
Portdown.bridge
a Vifion
every Day ap-
peared to the Paffengers
of
naked Perlons Banding
up
to the middle in
the River,
and
crying out,
Revenge, Revenge!
In
a
word, fcarceany Hiftory
mentioned' the
like barbarous Cruelty
as
this was
:
The
French
Maffacree murdered
but
Thirty,
or
Forty Thoufand;
but
Two Hundred Thoufand
was a
Number which ahonilhed thofe
that heard
it.
This