CI1ap. X. The HISTORY of the PuRITANS. 329 Fairfax for ten weeks, till being reduced to the !all: extremity, they were K. Charles I. forced to furrender at difcretion Augtljl ~8. af:er wbic? the &ene~al~ marched round about the country, and havmg'qUieted all wfurrechons m thof~ parts, returned to his head-quarters at St. A/bans about Michaelmas. While Failfax was in Kent and E!Jex, lieutenant-gene.ral Crormve/1 reduced the qvelch about the end of June. At the fame time,. the earl of Holland and duke of Buckingham appeared at the head of five hundr~d horfe and fome foot near Kingflon upon Thames, but they were foon dlfperfed ; the earl was taken prifoner at St. Neot's in Huntingdonfhire by colonel Scroop, and the duke of Buckingham with great difficulty, efcaped into the Low Countries. About the fame time feveral of the parliament's !hips revolted to the prince of Wales, then in Holland, who went on board, and with prince Rupert, Lord 1-Iopton, and others, failed to the coafl: ot England, with a defign to relieve Colchejler; but al- .though difappointed, he landed five hundred men about Deal and Sand- 'IJ•ich, and blocked up the 'Thames mouth; but when the earl of War- ~vick came up with the parliament's fleet, he failed back to Holland, and moll: of the Chips returned to the obedience of the parliament. It was not without great difficulty that the king's friends in Scotland Rapin, prevailed with the parliament of that kingdom, to confent to the raifing P· 475· an army again{]; England, the commiilioners of the kirk, and the whole body of their minifters, being vehemently againll: it; and when it was put to the vote, eighteen lords and forty commoners entred their protell:s, from a fi:rong fufpicion, that by the vafi: refort of loyalill:s to Edinburgh, there was a private agreement between Hamilton and that party, to lay afide the covenant, and reil:ore the king without any con- H M . ditions; to prevent which the fcots parliament gave exprefs orders, that p.' 33;~· none fhould be received into their army, or join with them at their entrance into England, except fuch as fhould take the co'venant; but Hamilton who betrayed their caufe, found means to evade the order, by which means he ruined himfelf, and the party he intended to ferve. . The)cots army entered England July I Ith, to the number of twenty The (cots thoufand foot and fix thoufand horfe, under the command of duke Ha- army entm mi!ton, and were afterwards joined by Sir Marmaduke Langdale at the head England, of four thoufand foot, and feven or eight hundred horfe; but thefe being . engli/h-men and cavaliers, who had not taken the covenant, were not in– corporated with the fcots forces, but were obliged to march a day before them, which was Hamilton's contrivance to evade his orders; neverthelefs they compofed one army, Langdale being to receive all his orders from Hamilton, and to aB: only by his direCtions. But though there was a private underfianding between the generals, the fubalterns and foldiers of both parties were not acquainted with it, and had the fame VoL. If. · U u wcu-
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