Ifiory of thePuritans, examin'd. 379 who, with their Attendants, .made fuch Troops, that. they confifted of three hundied Horfe ; for a Vanity had poffeffed the Troop, upon being cal- ' led the TroopofShcw,todelire the Honour of being engaged in the firft Charge. When we valued the whole Troop, we reckoned there was one hundred thoufand Pounds per Annum, in that Body flaked that Day in that Engagement, againft Men of a very difproportionable Quality.' And Mr. Echard Pays, (as Mr. Oldmixon informs us) * ' That ' they were Men of better Eftates, than the two Houles of Lords and Commons.' Oliver Cromwell, when he was preffed to the King- fhip, fpeaking of the two Armies, obferved, that the King's confuted of Gentlemen and Freeholders, and the Parliament's of the Dregs and Refufe of the Peo- ple. -¡ ' At my firft goingout into this Engagement, I law that their Men were beaten at every hand, I did indeed ; and defired Mr. john Hampden that ' he would make force Additions to my Lord Effex's Army, of Tome new Regiments, and I told him, t I would be ferviceable to him in bring irg filch Men in, as I thought had a Spirit, that would do ' force Service in the Work. This is very true that ' I tell you, God knows I lye not : your Troops, faid I, are molt of them old, decay'd Serving- '.Men, and Tapfters, and fuch kind of Fellows ; and faid I, their Troops are Gentlemens youn- ger Sons, and Perlons of Quality. Do you think ' that the Spirit of fuch bafe and mean Fellows will ever be able to encounter Gentlemen, that have ' Honour, and Courage, and Refolution in them. Truly I prefented him in this manner, confcien- Critical Hillary of England, Vol. I. p. z16. l Monarchy afferted to be the bell, andmolt ancient, and moll legal Form of Government; in a Conference had at White-hall, with Oliver Lord Protetlor, and a Committee of Parliament, &c. Painted 1660. p. 33. Penes me. tiOUtly
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