Hillary ofthe Puritans, examin'd. 259 quite alters the Cafe ; the latter being more pro- bable, fence it is confeft of all hands, that the Debate then was concerning a War with Scotland: and you may remember, that at the Bar, he once faid, to employ there. And thus, Mr. Speaker, I have faithfully given you an Account what it is, that hath blunted the Edge of the Hatchet, or Bill, with me, towards my Lord Strafford.' Sir Edward Walker, in his Life of Thomas Earl of Arundel obferves, ' That the great Ihare the Earl [ofStrafford] had in his Mafter's Favour, and his ' too great Parts and Abilities to oppofe their De- b figns, haften'd his Ruin. As for his Treafons, ' they were of fo nice and conftruEtive a nature, no Man in Authority finer, even to a Petty-Confta- ble, but had committed greater: Neal, p. 44I. When the Plot to dif. jolve the Par- liament broke out, the Citizens declar'd they wou'd lend nothing upon Parliamentary Security, becaufe their Sitting was fo precarious. The Methods thefe Gentlemen took to make the King odious, and themfelves acceptable to the Peo- ple, was, by inventing all manner of Lyes : This was the Mother ofall their Scare-Crow Plots t ; of the King's coming with an Army of Papifts to murder all the Proteftants U ; of the Pope's Bull newly come into England, for the more effeaual Profecution of the Catholick War** ; of the King's coming.at Midnight with 1500 Horfe, to fack the City, and cut theirThroats ; whichReport wrought fo effeftually, that no lefs than Forty Thoufand In- habitants put themfelves in Arms at an infant, the Women alfo providing fcalding Water to throw upon the Cavaliers, bringing out Forms, Stools, * Sir Edward Walker's Hiftorical Difcourfes, p. 2 r9. -I- Orleans's Rift. of the Revolutions in England, p. s1. Dugdale's Short View of the Troubles, p. 129. Dugdale, p. S2, S and
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