34.4. Mr. N E A LAS lid Vol. of the filling the Minds of our People with Fears and Apprehenfions, they feem'd not then to charge us with any knowledge or privity to it ; what they have done fince, all the World knows, notwithftanding our many Proteftations in that Point. And we cannot but fay, that by thofe Examinations of Colonel Goring, Sir Jacob 21.1h- ley, and Sir John Conyers, and Mr. Percie's Let- ' ter, which is all the Evidence we have feen, and by which they feem principally to be guided ; t we cannot fatisfy our own private Confcience, that there was ever a Refolution of bringing up the Army to London.' Then follows the King's Account of it. And the Reader, by comparing Mr. Neal with Rufhworth, may eafily judge, what an unfair Ab- ftraE he his given of the King's Anfwer to the Parliament's Memorial. The King's Words, to which he refers, are as follow * ° I with that the t Contriver of that Declaration could, withas good a Confcience, call God to witnefs, that all his Counfels and Endeavours have been free from all Private Aims, Perfonal Refpeás, and Paillon whatfoever,as the have done, and do ; that we have never had, or knew of any filch Refolution of bringing up the Army to London.' This is far from quibbling, as he fuggefts. And the King, in his Declaration to the two l-loufes of Parliament, in anfwer to that prefented to him at Newmarket, the gth of March 1641, has the following Words: t For the manifold Attempts to provoke our late Army, and the Army of the Scots, and to raife a Fa Lion in the City of London, and other Parts of the King- ` dom ; if it be laid, as relating to us, wecannot, without great Indignation, fuffer ourfelf to be 4 Ruf?imorth, Vol. IV. P. 709. * usbands's Exa& Collections; p. 107.
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