Hiflorof the Puritans, examin'd. 3 z 5 as a Guard to his Royal Perfon. Theft Officers in- tuited the common People, and gave them ill Lan- guage, as they paffd by the Court to the Parliament- Houle, cryingout, No Bifhops, no Popifh Lords. Did the King's Guards cry out fo ? If they did,they were unworthy to be a Guard to his Majefty. Or if . he means, that the common People did fo, (which is more probable) tho' his manner of Expreffion feems otherwife, the Officers did not ufe them worfe than they deferv'd. Neal, Ibid. If the People ventured to reply, the Of- ficersfoliow'd their Reproaches with Cuts and Slafies, which (lays Lord Clarendon) produced fame Words, and drew Blood. Lord Clarendon's Obfervation is this : * That when the diforderly Rabble firft came down, (the Train-Bands of Weftmin/ler and M'iddlefex ap- pointed by the King, as a Guard to the two Hbufes) they refitted them, and would not fuller . them to difturb the Houfes ; and fome of them with great Rudenefs prefiing to the Door of the Houle of Peers, their Lordfhips appointed the Guards to be call'd up to remove them ; and the Earl ofDorfet being the Lord-Lieutenant of Mid- c diefex, (the Croud oppreffing, and refiafing to leave the Room) in force Paillon call'd upon the 4 Guard to give fire upon them : whereupon the ' Rabble affrighted left the Place, and hafted away. The Houfe ofCommons incenfed that theirFriends thould be fo ufed, much inveigh'd againft the ' Earl of Dorfet, and talk'd of accufing him of e High- Treafon, at leaft of drawing up fome Im- peachment againft him, for force Judgment he ' had been. Party to in the Star- Chamber, or Coun- cil-Table, &c. They concluded, that fince they s Gould not have fuch a Guard as pleas'd them, Iiiitory of the Rebellion, Vol. I. p, 164, they
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