'Mori/ ofthe Puritans, examin'd. 251 railed againft the Scots up to London. Lord Cla- rendon fags, the la,/t Motion was rejecîed with Ab- horrence, and that the Gentlemanthat made it, was the Perlon that difcover'd the whole Plot. The Confpirators met in the jueen's Lodgings at Whitehall, where a Petition was drawn for the Officers of the Army to fign, and to prefent to his Maje/ly, with a Tender of their Readinefs to wait upon him in Defence of his Prerogative, againft the turbulent Spirit of the Houle cf Commons; the Draught wasfhown to the King, and fign'd in Teftimony of his Majefty's Approbation C. R. But the Plot being d f overed to the Earl of Bedford, &c. with the Names of the Confpirators, all of them, abfconded, and fame of them fled immediately into France. To pars over the Impropriety of the Exprefíion, That all of them abfconded, and yet fame of them immediately fed ; Lord Clarendon's Account of this formidable Plot, (with whom agrees the Earl¡`of Manche/ter in his Memoirs,and Mr. Neal I hope.will allow, that he was not too much preiudic'd in favour . of the Court ;) is this. * ' There was a Difcovery of fome Meetings and Difcourfes, between fome Perlons ofnear Relation to;his Majefty's Service, and force Officers of the Army, about the High Proceedings of the Parliament, and of force Ex- pedients that might reduce them to better Tem;- per ; which was no fooner intimated to force of the great Managers, than the whole was formed, and fhaped into a bloody Defign againft, the Par' liament, &c, It may be obferv'd (lays he) from . what little Accidents and fmall Circumftances, by the Art and Induftry of thafe Men, the' greaten Matters have flow'd towards the Confu- fion we have fnce labour'd under.' * Lord Clarendon's Hit. Vol, L p. 191, &e.. Then 3
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