276 advanc'd with the general!, which when the citie heard of, their stomachs would no~ serve them to stand it out, but they sent come missioners, and, by the consent of the members with the generall, obtain'd a pacification, upon condition the city should disband all their new forces, deliver up their tower and their forts to the general!, and desert the members now sitting. They daring to denie nothing, the generall came triumphantly to Westminster, and brought back both the speakers and the members and putt them againe in their seates. The generall had solemne thankes from both houses, and then, with all his chiefe officers, marcht through the city, from the westerne parts of it to the Tower, where many commands were chang'd, the presbiterian party depress'd, and their generalis, Poyntz and Massie, with all the remaining officers of that taction, forc'd to retire, who most of them then chang'd their party, and never more appear'cl on the parl iament side.. Yet was there still a presbiterian faction left in the house of such as were moderate, and not by the bitternesse of their zeale carried out to breake their covenant with God and men, and renew a league with the popish interest, to destroy that god ly interest which they had at first so gloriously asserted. After this tumult at Londot1 was quieted, about 1i ugust of that yeare the king was brought to one of his stately pallaces at Hampton-cour<, neere London, (\nd the annie remoov'd to quarters about the citie, their head quarters being at Putney. The king, by reason of his dayly converse with the officers, began to be trinkling with them, not only then but before, and had drawne in some of them to engage to corrupt others to fall in with him: but, to speake the truth of all, Cromwell was at that time soe uncorrnptibly taithfull to his trust and to the people's in terest, that he could not be drawne in to practise even his owne usuall and natural! dissimulations in this occasion. His sonne-in-law Ireton, that was as faithful! as he, was not so fully of the opinion (till he had tried it and found to the contrary) but that the king might have bene manag'd to corn-
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