3 28 Mr. N E A L's IJd Vol. of the * Lord Clarendon's Words : ' But the King ' liked not fuch Enterprizes. Neal, p. 536. It mutt be conffffed, that two Days after, the King Pent a Mefage to the Houfe, waving bis Proceedings, with refpeéi to the five Members, and promifing to be as careful of their Privileges, as of his Life or Crown; anda little after, his . Majfy ofer'd a general Pardon, but the Commons had too much reafon at this time not to depend upon his Royal Pro- mife, This is fpoke like Mr, Neal. Why might they not depend upon his Royal Promife? I challenge him to produce one tingle Infance, in which the King had fail'd to perform his Promife to his Par- liament ; his Ipfe dixit in this Cafe, will not fure be admitted as Proof. The Lord Clarendon has given us the King's Propofitions, and Mefiàges to both Houfes ; and takes notice, t ' That they were re- ceiv'd by the Lords wich great figns of Joy, in- ' fomuch, that they defir'd the Commons to join with them in returning of Thanks to his Mayfly for his gracious Offers, and to affure him, that s they would forthwith apply themfelves to thofe Confiderations. However, the next Day they join'd together in a Petition to the King, that he 6 would in a very few days fend his Proofs, and proceed againf the Members he had accufed of High-Treafon, or declare them innocent, and 6 himfelf ill- advifed.' Neal, p. 544, The Command of the Militia had been ufually in the Crown; tho' the Law hadnot pofi- tively_ determined in whom that great Power was lodged, as Mr. Whitlock undertook to prove before the Commaigioners at Uxbridge. In the Treaty at Uxbridge, printed in King Charles's Works,and in Dugdale's Short View of the Clarendon's History, Vol. I. p. 283. t Vol. I. p. 309, 3 i o, Trou<
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