Chap. I. "./beHISTORYifthePoRITANs.' 379 in treaty till colonel Reynolds came up, and after. fame few fkirmiChes dif- Common– wealth. perfed them. 16 49 The [cots threa~ened the commonwealth with a formidable invafion, for ~·; upon the death of king Charles I. they proclaimed the prince of Wales Andby the · h r.r · · h' · fcots king of Scotland, and fent comm1ffioners to t e nague, ·to mvlte nn mto · that kingdom, provided he would renounce popery and pre!Cicy, and take the jolemn league and covenant. To prevent the effects of this treaty, and cul– tivate a good underftanding with the dutch, the parliament fent Dr. Dori– jlazts an eminent civilian, concerned in the late king's trial, agent to the States General; hut the very firfi night after his arrival, May 3· he was . murdered in his own chamber by twelve defperate cavaliers in difguife, Wh1tl. fl• who ru!hed in upon him while he was at [upper, and with their drawn 3 86 ' fwords killed him on the fpot. Both the parliament and fiates of Holland refented this bafe action fo highly, that the young king thought proper to remove into France; from whence he went to the ljle qf Jerfey, and towards the latter end of the year fixed at Breda; where the Jcots commiffioners concluded a treaty with him, upon the foot of which he ventured his royal perfon into that kingdom the enfuing year. But tp ftrike terror into the cavaliers, the parliament erected an?ther high court of jlf)tice, and fentenced to death three illuftrious noblemen, for the part they had acted in the !aft civil war ; duke Hamilton, the earl of Holland, and lord Capel, who were all executed March 9· in the Palace– Yard at JVejtmil!fler : duke Hamilton declared himfelf a preibyterian ; and the earl of Holland was attended by two minifters of the fame perfuafion ; but lord Cape! was a thorough loyalifi, and went off the ftage with the courage and bravery of a Roman. . But the chief fcene of great exploits this year was in Ireland, which L. G. E:rom• Cromwell a bold and enterprizing commander, had- been appointed to re- well redum duce; for this purpofe he was made lord lieutenant for three years, and Ireland, having taking leave of the parliament, £1iled from Mifford Haven about the middle of Augz!fl, with an army of fourteen thoufand men of refolute principles, who before the imbarkation obferved i day of fafiing and prayer; in which Mr. Whitlock remarks that after three minifters had prayed, lieutenant-gener:::l Cromwell hirnfelf, and the colonel"S Gough and Harrijim expounded ,_,me parts of fcripture excellently well, and pertinently to the occafion. The army was under a fevere difcipline; not an oat? w~s to be heard throughout the whole camp, the foldiers [pending thetr letfure hours in reading their bibles, in finging pfalms, and religious conferences. , Alt:noft all Ireland was in the hands of the royalifl:s and roman catholies, His rapid except Dublin and Londo1iderry; the former of thefe places had been late-fucceft. cc c 2 ly
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