Iif orey ofthe Puritans, examin'd. 29i 3r. Nafon informs us*, ' That the King re- commended that Affair to the Parliament, and what Courfe was fitteft to be taken for the re- ' ducing of that Kingdom,' In the Life of King Charles, p.. 51. (printed before Reliquia Sacra Caro- lina) 'tis faid, ' That neither the King's Importu- nity here, nor the Neceffity of the Proteftants there, could perfuade them to levy one Man, to- ' wards the Supprefiïon of the Rebels, till the King had difclaim'd his Power ofprefiing Soldiers by an A& ofParliament; and thereby laid himfelf open ' to fuchViolence, as was then hammering againft him.' Nay, when a Refo'ive was made, that Four Hundred Thoufand Pounds ¡hould be railed for the Suppref lion of this Rebellion in Ireland -f-; they affumed to themfelves an Authority to direct and difpofe ofOne Hundred Thoufand Pounds, in carrying on the Rebellion againft him in England. it Of this his Majefty complain'd, ' and ftrialy required the Houfe of Commons, as they would anlwer the contrary to Almighty God, his Ma- ' jetty, and thole that had trufted them, that they immediately retraE that mifchievous, illegal, and unjuft Order, wherein his Majefty expeaeth their fpeedy Anfwer and Obedience ; and the rather, that he may thereby be fecure, that fuch part of the Four Hundred Thoufand Pounds, as is, or ffi . ¡hall be collected from his good Subjects of Eng- land, by virtue of the fame A of Parliament, whereby the fame is granted, may not likewife by falfe Pretences be diverted from its proper ' Ufe, for 'which it was intended, and mifemploy'd, 1a Vol, H. p. 600. -f Orleans's Hiftory of the Revolutions in England, p. 74. His Majetly's Meffage to theHoule of Commons fromYork, ..rtuguff 16, ¡642. Husbands's Co'letions, p. 56S-. May's Hitt. of the Parliament, p. sa. U 2 ' t(3..
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