73.2 the HISTORY of the PuRITANs. Chap: X. K. Charles I.0 high court, and Hill depending before you. The petitioners therefore X64' ,c pray the houle to refume the confideration of their former petition, and " to commit the fame to the debate of afreefynod, and in the mean time '" to be mediators to his májefty for form relaxation in matters of cere- " mony, and of reading the whole liturgy. They further pray, that " a monthly fart may be appointed and religioufly obferved, during the " prefent feßìons of parliament, and they will be ready at any time " to offer reafons why there . fhould be a fynod of a different con- " ffitution from the convocation now in being, when they (hall be re- quired." Tumults a- The carrying up there petitions to Wejimin/ier, and efpecially that of bout the par-.the London apprentices, occafioned great tumults about the parliament .tiamentbouje. houfe. The king was at his palace at Whitehall, attended by great num- bers of difbanded officers, whom his majefty received with great cere- mony, and employed as a guard to his royal perfon. Thefe officers in- fulted the common people, and gave them ill language as they palled by the court to the parliament houle, crying out no bithops, no popifh lords. If the people ventured to reply, the officers followed their reproaches with Vol, I. cuts and flathes, .which'(fays lord Clarendon) produced Come wounds; and p. 339. drew blood.. Mr. Baxter Pays, theycame out of Whitehall, and catched Skirmifhet Come of them, and cut off their ears. From thefe fkirmifhes, and from between the -the fhortnefs of the apprentices hair, which was cut clofe about their ears, tweparties. -the two parties began firft to be diftinguifhed by the names of ROUND- HEAD and CAVALIER. David Hyde one of the reformades, firft drew his (word in Palace-Yard, and fwore he would cut the throats of thole round - headed dogs that hauled againft the bifhops. Dr. Williams bifhop of Lincoln, lately promoted to the fee of York, going by land to the houle of peers in company with the earl of Dover, and hearing a youth lt.nfhw. -cry out louder than the reft, no bifhops, no popifh lords, ftept from the earl p.464 and laid hands on him, but his companions refcued him, and about one hundred of them furrounding the bifhop hemmed him in, and with an univerfal fhout cryed out, no bithops; after which they opened a paffage and let his grace go forward to the houle. The fame day colonel Lull.- ford coming through Wminfler-Hall in company with thirty or forty of- ficers, drew his (word and wounded about twenty apprentices and citi- zens : others walking in the Abbey while their friends were waiting for an anfwer to their petition, were ordered by the vergers to clear the church, left the ornaments of the cathedral fhould fufier damage; upon which molt of them wentout, and the doors were (hut, but Tome few remain, ingbehind, were apprehended and carried before the bifhop, which oc- cafioned another fkirmifh, in which Sir Richard Wifemán was killed by a ftone from the battlements; after which the officers and fcholars, (allied out.
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