dclayes, and would not assent to them, hoping a grea ter advantage by the difference betweene the two nations, and the fac tions in the citie and parliament, which both he and all his party employ'd their utmost industry to cherish and augment. Both parliaments perceiving thi~, and nott yett sencelesse of approaching des truction , from the common enemie, began to be cemented by the king's averseness to peace, and to consider how to sellle the kingdomes without him, and when they had agreed that the Scotts should deliver up the English garrisons for a certaine summe of many, it fell into debate how to dispose of the king's person; where the debate was, not who should, but who should not have him. At the length, about January of the same yeare, two hundred thousand pounds was carried downe by part of the armie to Newcastle, and upon the payment of it, the Scotts deliver'd their garrisons to the souldiers, and the king to certaine commissioners of both houses of parliament, who conducted him honorably to his owne mannour of Holmby, in Northamptonshire. During this time Sr. Thomas Fairfax himselfe lay at Nottingham, and the governor was sick in the castle. The generall's lady was come allong with him, having follow'd his camp to the siege of Oxford, and layne a t his quarters all the while he abode • there. a Here is another of those paradoxes, with which historians have perplexed them· !elves and their readers, reduced to a very plain tale. It is generally said and believed, that Fairfax was a presbyterian, and much wonder is expressed that he should have so faithfully (it is ·even said too faitll.fullg) served the independents; but it is impossible that any one could have a more clear and certain knowledge of his religious opinions than Col. and Mrs. Hutchinson had, and they declare his chaplains to have ·beene indcpend~nt ministers; nor does it appear that he ever cltanged ltis opinion,' but only that he suffered himself to be over-ruled hy his wife. Heroes as great as he have .been, both before and since, ·under the same dominion; as Horace sets forth in his :facetious ode to Xanthias Phoceus, parodied by Rowe: Ne sit ancillt.t tibi amor pudori. Do not, most f..:agrant earl, disclaim.
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