275 which t'•ey had fought for. , The presbiterians were highly offended at this, and declar'd it with such violence as gave the armie cause to encrease thei r iealousies. The souldiers, led on to it by one Cornet J oyce, tooke the king from Holmeby out of the parliament commissioners' hands, and carried him about with them. The parliament voted that the king should come to Richmond, attended by the same persons that a ttended him at Holmby, but the armie, instead of obeying, impeach'd eleven members of the house of commons of high treason, and petiLion'd that those impeach'd members might be secluded the house, till they had J;>rought in their answer to the charge; which being violently -debated, they made a voluntary secession for six months. The general! alsoe entreated that the king might not be brought nearer to London then ihey would suffer the army to quarter. So he was carried with them to Royston, Hatfield, Reading, and at last to Owborne, till about July 1647, when London grew into a tumult, and made a very rude violation upon the parliament -house, which caused them to adiourn; when understanding t he furie of the .citizens, the greatest part of the members with the speaker withdrew and went to the armie, among whom was Coli. Hutchinson.' The presbiterian members who stay'd behi nd chose new speakers, and made many ne w votes, and vigorously began to leavie forces to resist the armie, which were conducted ·by Massie and Poyntz. The parliament that was with the armie qmde an order aga-ins t the proceedings of the members at London, and r As did fourteen peers; among them the earls of Manches ter and ·VV m·wick, lords Say and Sele a.nd lVIulgrave, and one hundred commoners, ·and .the palsgrave, or elector pal utine, visited them. It would have been ve1;y seasonable to have offered to the consideration oJ both parties Horace's beautiful apologue of tbe Horse and the S tag. Cervus equum bello melior, &c. The calling in foreign nid to controul their mttagonists proved equally destructive to both, but was beguri by the Presbyterians.
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