Chap. V. Tbe HIS T 0 R Y of the PuRITANS. 181 contrary, for his commi!Jioners would not be difouted from their ground, K. Charles I. which was according to the note jhe remembers, and which he would not alter. ~ When the treaty was ended, he writes thus to the queen March I 3. "' Now is come to pafs what I forefaw, the fruitlefs end of this treaty- ,, Now if 1 do any thing unhandlome to myfelf or my friends it will be Rapin, p. " my own fault-- I was afraid of b~ing preifed to make fome mea n 283. •• overtures to renew the treaty, but now if it be renewed it {hall be to " my honour and advantage." Such was the queen's afcendan t over the Claren. Vol. king, and his majefiy 's fervile fubmit1ion to her imperious dictates ; the IlL P· 3 6 4· fate of three kingdoms was at her difpofa l ; no place at cou rt or in the army mull: be difpofed of without her approbation; no peace mufi be made but upon her terms; the Oxford mungrel parliament (as his m1jefiy calls it) mufl be difrniifed with difgrace, becauJe they voted for pe.1ce ; the irijh proteflants mull be abandoned to deftruclion; and a civil war permitted to continue its ravages throughout England and Scotland, that a popifh religion and arbitrary government might be encouraged and upheld. As a farther demonfiration of this melancholy remark, his majefty authorized the earl of Glamorgan, by a warrant under his royal fi gnet, da- E. of Gla-– ted March I 2. 1644.. to _conclude privately a peace with the irifo papifts morgan': I b "- h ld I h I r. h h' 1' h lrtf1ty wllh • upon t le en- terms e cou , t 1oug t 1ey were 1UC as IS Ieutena nt t .e tbe lri!h. duke of Ormondmight not well be feen in, nor his majefiy himlelf thi nk Ru O: w. fit to own publicly at prefent, engaging upon the word of a king and a Vol. VI. P: Ghriftian, to ratify and perform wbatfoever he ihould grant under his band l~ 2~9· be. and feal, on condition ihey would fend over into England, a body of ten 3;;~n, P· thoufand men, under the command of the fai d earl. The date of this Hilt. warrant is remarkable, as it was at a time when his majefty'o affai rs were Stulrts, !'-' far from being defperate; when he thought the divifions in the parliament- 305 ' houfe would quickly be their ruin, and that lie had little more to do than to fit fiill and be refiored upon his own terms, for which reafon he was fo unyielding at the treaty of Uxbridge; and yet the earl, by his majefiy's commiffion, granted every thing to the irifh, even to the ~fiabc lilhing the roman catbo!ic religion, and putting it on a level with the proteflant; he gave them all the chnrches and revenues they were poffttfed of fince the rebellion, and not only exempted them from the jurifditl:ionufthe proteftant clergy, but allowed them jurifdiction over their fev eralftccks, fo , that the reformed rel igion in that kingdom, was in a manner fold for ten thoufand irijh papifis to be tranfported into England, and maint2ined for three years. Let the reader now judge, what profpeCl there could be of a wdl-grounded p~ace by the treaty of Uxbridge I \Vhat fecnrity there was f.>~- the prote(Lnt religion ! How little ground of reiiance on the king's pro-- mlfe>! and coll(equently, to whofe account the calamities of the W<>r, and the rnifery and coufuiions which followed aftei thi~ period, ought to be placed, Tile
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