360 Mr. N EA L'S II Vol. of. the ing the Houles, and feizing the Arms, was tak- ' ing away Plate, and Things of the greateft Va- ' lue, and very frequently plundering what was worth the keeping. They farther appointed, ' that the Fines, Rents, i &c. of Archbifhops, Bi- fbops, Deans, &c, and all Delinquents who had taken up Arms againft the Parliament, or had been auive in the Commiffion of Array, fhould ' be fequeftred for the U fe of the Common-wealth. And that the King might not fare better than his Adherents, they dire&ed all his Revenue ari- fing out of the Rents, Fines in Courts of Juftice, Compofit.ion for Wards, and the like, and all o- ther his Revenue fhould be brought into the fe- < veral Courts, and other Places, where they ought to be paid in, and not iffued forth, or paid forth, until farther Order fhould be taken by both Houfes of Parliament, without fo much as af- ' figning him any part of his own, towards the Support of his own Perlon. This Bout Invafion of the People's Property, (lays Lord * Clarendon) ' and compelling them to part with what was mote precious to them, was thought by many an un- popular Act, in the Morning of their Sovereignly, and that it would wonderfully have irreconciled < their. new Subjects to them. But the Condu&ors well underftood, that their Empire already de- pended more on the Fear, than the Love of the ' People ; and that as they could carry on the War, only by having Money enough to pay the Sol- ' diers, fo that whilft they had that, they fhould not probably want Men to recruit their Army ' upon any Mifadventure. It cannot be imagined ' what great Advantages the King received by the ' Parliament's rejeaing the King's Meffages for ' Peace, and the manner of doing it : all Mens ìno. the were opened againft them ; the Meffa.ges History of the Rebellion, Vol. p. aq,. and
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