740 The HISTORY of the PURITANS. Chap. X. K. Charles I. had fully juftified himfelf in every thing ; but the earl of Northumberland '6V' who was chaiaan, refufed to Pet his hand to it, Paying be wasforry the marquis had producedfuch warrants; but he did not think that they ought toferve his turn, for he did not believe that any warrantfrom the king or queen couldjujiijyfo much bloodfhed, info many black inftances as were laid Bennet's againfi him. Upon the earl's refufing to lign the relsort, the rett of the mem, p. 197 committee declined it, and there it dropt ; whereupon the king himfelf wrote over to the duke of Ormond, that he had fo vindicated himfelf, that he mutt get him included in the ad of indemnity ; but the lord Ma- zarine and others not being fatisfied to give their vote in favour of fuch a criminal, notwithftanding the inftrudlions they had received from Eng- land, the marquiswas obliged in his own `defence to produce in the houle ofcommons a letterfrom king Charles I. writ with his own hand, giving him exprefs orders to take up arms;. upon which he was pardoned, and his eftate reftored. _ X. Charles In the letter of king Cbarles 11. to the duke ofOrmond abovementioned,. the Ill's let- under his majefty's own hand, and entered in the fignet office, yid.), 13.. Ludlow's 1663. there is this remarkable paffager " That the referrees who ' ad ex- memoirs, " amined the marquis [of .Intrim's] cafe, had declared to him, that they Vet. nt. " had Peen feveral letters, all of them ofthe hand-writing of our royalfa- P 353 " tber to thefaidmarquis, and feveral inft.rudtions concerning his treating " with the irifh in order to the king's fervice, by reducing them to their " obedience, and by drawing Tome forces from them for the fervice of °' Scotland. That befides letters and orders under his majeftÿ's own hand, " there was fufficient evidence and teflimony of feveral meffagesand di- " reélions lent. from our royal father and our royalmother, with the pri- " vity and diredtion of the king our father, by which it appears, that whatever corrfpondence or aelings thePaidmarquis had. with the confide- " rate irifh catholicks, was direEied and allowed by the faid letters and " inftruhlions; and that the king himfelf was well pleafed with. " what the marquis did after he had done it,, and approved of the: " fame." I have been more particular in accounting for this infurredlion, becaufe Vol. I; whoever were the authors of it, are in the judgment of lord Clarendon,. P. 299 anfwerable for all the calamities of the civil war. " Icwas Ireland (fays 's- his lordlhip), that drew the firft blood. If they had not at that time rebelled, and in that manner, 'tis very probable all the miferies which " afterwards befel the king and his dominions, had been prevented." At whole door then the. guilt of all this.blood.muft be laid, L freely leave with the reader., TJporI
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