Chap. XL The HISTORY of the PURITANS. 781 the parliament rune 14. that by the help f God and the law, he would K. Charles I.' haveju/lice upon thefe that kept hint out of Hull, or loye his, life in re- X64 ' quiring it. Ib. p. 750: On the other hand, the commons upon the defertion of the king's Preparations friends, ordered a general call of the houle rune i6. and that every f nt árI:a- member fhould anfwer to his name on forfeiture of one hundred pounds. war. The lords ordered the nine peers that went after the great feal, to appear at their bar June 8. and for their non appearance [ rune 27.] deprived them of their privilege of voting in the houle during the prefent parlia- ment. As the commons had taken all imaginable precautions to hinder the king from getting the forts and magazines of the kingdom into his pot feftion, they ordered all fufpeEted places to be fearched for arms and am- munition.;' in the archbifhop's palace at Lambeth they feized arms for a bout five hundred men, and lodged them in the ?ower of London ; in Cobham-Hall they feized five cart loads of arms ; and below Gravefend' about one hundred piecesof canon. As foon as they heard the king had' received fupplies from beyond fea, and was preparing to befiege Hull, they ordered their ordinance for railing the militia to be put in execurion in Ef- fix, [rune 7.] when all the regiments appeared full, betides a great num- ber of volunteers who declared they would ftand by the parliament in this caufe with their lives and fortunes. The king forbid the militia's appear- ing in arms without his confent, according to the flatute 7 Eliz. cap. I. and iffued out commons of, array, according to an old ftatute of 5 Hen- ry IV. appointing feveral perlons of quality to array, minter, and train the people in the feveral counties,; but the parliament by a declaration en- deavoured to prove thefe commiffions to be illegal, contrary to the peti- tion of right, and to a ftatute of this prefent parliament ; and went on with muttering the militia in feveral other counties, where the fpirit'of the people appeared to be with them.. The execution of thefe coun- ter- commiffions occafioned forne fkirmifhes where-ever the two parties happened to meet. On the loth of Tune the parliament publillied propofals for borrowing They borrow money upon the public faith at eight per cent. intereft, allowing the full va. money and lue of the plate, betides one fhilling per ounce confideration for the fa. Plate of tba Ihion. Upon information of this, the king immediately wrote to the citizens. lord-mayor of London, to forbid the citizens lending their moneyor plate,.. upon pain of high treafon; notwithftandingwhich fuck vall quantities were brought into Guildhall within tendays, that there were hardly officers enough to receive it. Mr. Eachard computes the plate at eleven millions, which is monftrous, for in reality it was but one million, two hundred fixty leven thoufand, three hundred and twenty fix pounds : the gentry of London and.Middlefex brought in the belt of theirplate, and the meaner f rA.
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