The HISTORy of the PuRITANS. VoL. n. K. CharlesI. 'tower _; but, after a long debate, they were difmiiTed only with a repri– ~mand for meddling in affairs of flate, and for prefuming to offer a petition to parliament without their general. Upon this the officers fent their petition by t be general himfelf, but the parliament initead of taking it into confidcration, ordered May 2 I. that all who would not lifl: for the irijb fcrvice, fhould be immediately paid off and di£bandcd; upon which the offi cus feeing the fnare that was laid for them, bound themfelves and tbe army by an engagement May 29. not to diiliand till the grievances above-me ntioned were redreffed. Whereupon the two boufes ordered lieu tenant·ger.eral Cromwell, who was then in town, and fufpeCled to be at the head of thefe counfels, to be feized; but being advertifed of the defi gn, he made his efcape to the army. They then voted t1,e petition fedi tious, and all thofe traytors who bad promoted it; and having fent a meffage to thegeneral, to remove the army further from London, they railed the city trained bands, and determined to put an end to the power of the army by a fpeedy conclu!ion of peace with the king. :King's anHis rnajefl:y's anfwer to the propofitions at Newcaf!le were read in the fwer to the boufe May rS, in which "he agrees to fettle the preibyterian govern– propojitzonJIJt" ment for three years-- to ratify the affernbly of divines at Wef!minr_ Newcafile. r. r f h' I "d h tr " ter, propotwg a 1ew o rs own c ergy to con11 er w at government to '' fettle afterwards-- he yields the militia for ten years-- defires '' minillers of his own to fatisfy him about the covenant-- confents to " the act againfl papifl:s -- and to an aCl of oblivion-- and de!ires " to come to London, in order to give the parliament fatisfattion upon the " other articles." Two days after the lords voted, that the king be re– moved to his boufe at Oatlands, and that it be immediately fitted for his reception. "'"Z k' r.. Things being come to this crifis, the arritators confidered, that the .L oe mg 1et · . o . . , . ft zed and car - KING being the pnze contended for, whoever had h1m 111 tne1r power mu ried to the be maflers of the peace, and make their own terms; they therefore refol· army. ved by the advice and direClion of lieutenant-general Cr01moell, to get R~lhw . p. poffeffion of his maJ'elly's perfon, which they accomp\i{hed by a bold 545· 549· l{apin. p. firatagem, in the night of June 4· with very little oppofirion from his 37 I. attendance or guards ; cornet Joyce at the head of fifty re[olute horfe; having fccured the avenues to Holmby-Houfe, entered with two or th;ee of his company, and going to the king's chamber, acquainted him with his defign, of carrying him to the army at New-Market; his majdl:y being furprized at fo unexpeCted a vilit, and fo late at night, a{ked for his com– miilion, who pointed to his troops drawn up befo re the gates; his majef– ty anfwered, it was very legible; and fin ding it in vain to refill:, confemed to go with the cornet next morning, on promife of fafety to his perfon, and
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