Hfory ofthe Puritans, examin'd. 273 " Parliament, taken the Advice of his Parlia- " ment concerning the Army ; therefore he gives " his Confent concerning the disbanding of the " Horfe, and that he hath given order that his " Attorney (hall iffue out fuch a Proclamation, as " is defir'd ; and his Majefly does recommend to " the Parliament the Care of disbanding the Horfe, " that the Soldiers may be repaid the Money that " bath been taken from them for their Arms, that " fo armed Men may not difperfe themfelves to the disturbance of the Kingdom, that the Arms may " be reflor'd to the Magazines for the Defence of " the King and Kingdom." ` A Proclamation was accordingly iffued to that purpofe, Auguf 8.' * ` His Majefty's Impatience (fays Lord Cla- rendon) to fee both Armies disbanded, and this Kingdom freed from the Invafion, (both which he heartily defir'd;) and his defire to rfrefn him- ' feif from the Vexation which the Houfes, or fome one of them, or fome in one of them daily gave him, hurried him to that Expedition, without well weighing and preparing how to comport himfelf through it.' And in the fame Place, ` The unexpected Pailîon and Importunity to hinder his Majefty's Journey into Scotland, was not well un- ` derílood ; and the lets, for that the governing Party was divided upon it: Some of them with ` Trouble equal to what they had at any time expreffed, infifled upon his not going ; others al- ` lodging that his Majefly was fo far engag'd in it, ` that he could not in Honour recede from it.' Neal, p. 484. 'The King jet oat Po/l, Auguf' io. and arriv'd at Edinburgh, in three or -four Days. t ` Wednefclay, Auguft t r. This Day the King fet forward in the Afternoon upon his Journey to Scotland, accornpained with the Prince Ele Tor, * Vol. I. p.2í9. lTalfon, Vol. II. p. 439 T the
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