Chap. X. The HISTORY ifthe PURITAÌ35. 19 admitted of the former, though they might wafh their hands ofk. Charles the latter. 1641. The parliament in their declarationof March q. fay, that the rebellion Rapn, in Ireland was framed and contrived in England, and that they had taken p. 337. feveral depofitions, proving that the englilhpapifls were to rife about the fame time; that the rebels faid they ailed by the king's authority ; that they called tbemfelves the queen's army, and declared, that their purefe was to come to England after they had done in Ireland, to recover the royal prerogative, wrefledfrom him by the puritanfaEgion in the bowl of com- mons. Mr. Pym declared in parliament, that feveral difbanded offi- cers and foldiers of the king's army went over to Ireland, and lifted among the rebels by the king's exprefs warrant, which his majefty denied ; but when thematter was examined, it appeared that his authority had been abufed by fome who were very near his perfon. The concernof the court in this dark affair is further evident, from the Earl ,/' Ef relation of the earl of Effex, who told bifhop Burnet, " that he had ta- fex'saccos55, ken all the pains he could to enquire into the original of the irzjh MAS- " SACRE, but could not fee reafon to believe the king was acceffary to it; but he did believe that the queen did hearken to the propofitions made " by the irk, who undertook to take the government of Ireland into "their hands, which they thought they could eafily perform, and then 0° they promifed to affift the king againft the hot fpirits at TPellminfter. With this the infurreäion began, and all the irifh believed the queen «encouraged it." There was a farther difcovery of this fa&t at the refcoration of king llndthemar. 'Charles iI. when the marquis of Antrim who had been at the head of Pis of An the rebellion, and whole eftate had been conñfcated, finding himfelflike trims. to beexcluded the ad of indemnity, came to London to petition his ma- jelly to examine the warrants he had acted upon. Accordingly a comma mittee of council was appointed, and the marquis produced force letters from the king, which did not amount to a full proof ; but in one of them the king fays, that he was not then at leifure, but referredhimfelfto the queen's letter, andPaid, that was all one as ifhe writ himfelf. Upon this foundation the marquis produced a feries of his own letters to the queen, in which he gave her anaccount of every one of thole particulars that were laid to his charge, and'hewed the grounds he went upon, and de redher ma- j fty's direElion to every one of theft; and he had anfwers ordering him to do as he did. This affair (fays the bifhop) the queen herfelf, who was Burnet'shf,. then at court, efpoufed withgreat zeal, and faid, fhe was bound to fave life and him. So á report was drawn up by the committee, declaring that he"ço 41 5 B 2 had
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