356 Mr. N E A L'S IId Vol. of the 4 Volunteers, &c. And many do yet believe, that the King too long deferred his Recour: ' to Arms ; and that if he had raifed Forces upon his fire Repullè at Hull, his Service would ' have been very much advanced, and that the Parliament would not have been able to have drawn an Army together. And fo Men ftill re- ' preach the Counfcls that were then about the King, as they were cenfured by many at that time ; but neither they then, ner thefe now, do underftand the true Reafons thereof. The King ' had not at that time one Barrel of Powder, nor ' one Mufquet, nor any other Provifion necefrary for an Army ; and, which was worfe, was not frire of any Port, to which they might be af- figned ; nor had he Money for the Support of his own Table, for the Term of one Month.' Neal, ibid. But in this Anfwer, as in moll o- thers, his Majejly had his Ambiguities and Refer. valions. This is Mr. Neal all over ; the King, in his Opinion, was wrong in every Inftance, and the .Parliament in the right. The King, after they had forced him from his capital City, by fpiriting up Mobs againft him, after they had feized upon his Navy, Forts, and Militia, (which they own'd at firft to be his undoubted Right) after they had a6ually begun to raife Forces under the Earl of EJJx, fhould have fate ftill, or have tamely re- figned up his Per bn and Crown, to have been dif- pofed of at their Will and Plealiire ; then 'tis pro- bable he might have been in force finali degree of Favour with Mr. Neal. Neal, p. 567. The like Difappointment bis Ma- illy met with before Hull, which he befeged a fecund time, July 4. He ailed a Proclamation of his Intention to be- liege ir, upon the x all of July, fo could not lay fiegc-
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