The HIS T 0 RY of the PuRITANS. VoL. IJ, ·C H A P. X. The Jecond civil war. The conclujion of the a./Jembly of di– vines. The progrejs ofprejbytery. The treaty of the Hle of Wight. Death and charaEler of hing CHARLES I. His worhs. And the authors of his unhappy fufferings. K. Charles I. THE king was all lafi: winter a clofe prifoner inCarijbrook ca!l:le, 1648. attended only by two fervants of his own, and debarred of all o- ~ ther converfation, without the knowledge of the governor; neverthelefs civil war. by the ailifi:ance of fome particular friends, he fent and received feveral letters from the queen, though his correfpondence was difcovered oftner than he w·as aware. His maje!l:y made feveral attempts to efcape, but was always prevented; capta_in Bur!ey attempted to raife the iDand for him, but was apprehended and executed. However in purfuance of the fecret treaty with the fcots, already mentioned, an army was railing in that kingdom, to be commanded by duke Hamilton; but the englijb ca– valiers, impatient of delay, without concerting proper meafures among themfelves, or with the prejb)•terians, took up arms in feveral counties, to deliver the king from his confinement, and to rell:ore him without aRu!hw. ny treaty with his parliament. The we!fh appeared firfi, under major p. 1007; general Langhorn colonel Poyer and Powe/, three officers in the parlia– ment army, who had privately accepted commiilions from the prince of Wales. Thefe were followed by others in DorfetJhire, Devonjhire, Szif– fex, Surre)', Lincolnfoire, Norfolk, Kent, Northamptonjhire, F:fjex, and in the city of London itfelf. The infurrettion in the city began on Sunday April 9· in Moorjields, by a company of young fellows with clubs and fi:aves, crying out, for God and king Charies. But after they had done fome mifchief in the night, and fi-ighted the mayor into the 'Tower, they were difperfed next morning by the general at the head of two regiments. The kentijh men under the earl of Norwich, having plundered fome boufe~, were defeated near Maicjflone, and having a promife of pardon, the main body laid down their arms; notwith– fianding which, the earl with five hundred refolute men, croffed the 'Ibames at the gle if dogs, and came as far as Mile-end green, ex– petting, ailifiance from the city; but being difappointed, he joined the E!Jex cavaliers under Sir Charles Lucas and, Lord Cape!, who fur~ prized the parliament's committee at Chelmiford, and then lhut them– .felves up in Colchefler, where they maintained themfelves again!l: gcne~al Fatr-
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