336 Mr. N L A L 'S IId Vol. of the LeEurers in the moft populous Towns and Pa- ' rifhes, as were well known to abhor the prefent Government, and Temperature both in Church and State ; many of which were recommended, and pofitively cnjoin'd, and impofed upon Pa- ' rifhes, by the Houfe of Commons: and all Ca- ' nonical Clergymen, and Orthodox Divines, were, withequal Induftry, difcountenanced, imprifoned, and forced upon long Attendance upon Corn- ' mittees, or the Houfe, under the Notion and s Imputation offcandalous Miners; which Charge and Reproach reach'd all Men, whofe Inclina- tions they liked not, or whofe Opinions they fufpe&ed.' And Mr. Echard tells us, * ' That all noble and generous Minds were ftrangely moved with the Proceedings of theParliament, whole Leaders were now become implacable, and were refolved to remove all thofe who oppofed any thing they defired, or filled up a Place they defigned for force other, in whom they could confide.' Neal, p. 547. But the Ordinance ofMarch 5, for difpofing of the Militia by both Houfes of Parliament, without the King, in Cafes of extreme Danger to the Nation, of which Danger, the two Houfes were the proper fudges, with the fubfequent Refolutions of March 6, were thegrand Crifis, which divided thé two Parties in the Hozfe. t ' From this WA Refolution, (lays Lord Cla- rendon) by which the Laws of the Land, and confequently the Liberty of the Subjet, was re- ' folved into a Vote of the two Houles, which paffed without any Difpute or Hefitation ; all fober Men difcerned the fatal Period of both, and law a Foundation laid for the Anarchy, and Confufon that afterwards followed.' * Echard's Hiecory, Vol. II. p. 292. Hiítory of the Rebellion, Vol. I. p. 154. Neal,
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