Chap. VIII. The HIS T 0 RY if the PuRITANS. · 2 75 of the members, who fled to them for proteCtion ,from the outragious vio- K. Charles I. lence of the city mob, they refolved to pu!htheir advantage, aud bring the 1 647· mutineers to jufi:ice; accordingly they refolved to march to London, and ~rendezvous'd the whole army on Houn.Jlow-Heath, Augujl 3· to the number of twenty thoufand men, with a fuitable train of artillery, accompanied with fourteen peers, and about one hundred members of the houfe of commom. The citizens were no fooner informed of this, than their courage funk at once, and infiead of defending the city, they ordered the militia to retire from the lines, and fent their fubmiilion to the general, promifing to open their p,dies, and give ::tll ailiftance to the replacing of thofe members who had withdrawn to the army. Aug. 6. being appointed City fubmits. fot this fervice, the mayor and aldermen met the general at Hyde- Park Rufhw P· with a prefent of a gold cup, befeecbing him to excufe what bad been 751. 75°· amifs ; but his excellency refufed the prifeut, and having difmiiTed them with very little ceremony, conducted the members to their feats in parliament, who immediately voted all proceedings in their abfence void, and gave thanks to the army for their fafe.conduct. Next day the army marched through the city without any diforder, and confl:ituted colonel 'I/tchburn lieutenant of the 'Iower, contrary to the requefl: of the lordmayor and citizens ; the mili1ia was changed, and put into the hands of the old officers who had conducted it before; the fortifications and lines of circumvallation about the city were levelled , and fundry peers who had peen at the head of the late tumults, were impeached of high-treafon, as the earl of Szffolk, Middlefex, Lincoln, lordWilloughby of Parham, Hundfon, &c. the lord-mayor, and fome of the principal citizens were fent to the 'Iower; and it was refolved to purge the boufe of all who had been active in the late unhappy riot; which put a full period to the preihyterian power for the prefent ; and the army being quartered near the city all the next winter, there was a council of officers at their head quarters at Putmy, whole debates and refolutions had, no doubt, a very powerful influence upon the refolutions of the two houfes. The odium of this grand revolution, by which the army became rnaf- Prefbyte– ters of the city of Lonckn, and of the parliament itfelf, fell chiefly on the rianminf!!ers · . !h · h r 1 h r. · 1 f ·f· . vmdzcatron pre.J';yterzans t ern1e ves, w o,e mtemperate zea or covenant um ormJty of'th ,r 1 · d 1 · I' · tr b ~ em1e vu. came t 1em to very 1mp,) 1t1c excenes. T e fermons of their minifi:ers were filled with invective againfl: the army while at a dif\ance; in their public prayers they intreated the Almighty to incline the hearts of thefcots to return to their relie f ; and the converfation of their people was riotous and diforderly; however leafl: the weight of this revolution fhould fall too heavi ly on the London minifl:ers, as the chief incendiaries of the people, they wifely prepared a vindication of themfelves, and publithed it four N n z days
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