411 Chap. II. The HISTORY of the PuRITANS. · all the fpirit he could wi!h for; but when it was known tbat the covenant Common· was to be laid afide, Ma!fey's meafures were broken, many ot theJcots dew~~th. ferted and returned home; and not one in ten of the englijh would hazard ~ his life in the quarrel. Mr. Baxter who was a much better judge of the Rapin, P· temper of the people than his lord{hip, [ays the englijh knew that the !ife. p. 68 , ,, fi·ots coming into Englc~nd was rather a fl1ght than a march. They con- " fidered likewife, that the implacable cavaliers had made no preparation « of the people's minds, by propofing any terms of a future reconciliation. '' That the prelatical divines were gone further from the preiliyterians by '! Dr. Hammond's new way, than their predeceff'ors; and that the caufe " they contended for being not concord bot government, they had given " the preiliyterian clergy and people no hopes of finding any abatement of " their former burdens; and 'tis hard to per{uade men to venture their " lives, in order to bring themfelves into a prifon or banithment," However, thefe were the true rea{ons, fays Mr. Baxter, that no more came ·into the king at prefent; and had the preiliyterians ob{erved them at the l·efloration, they had made better terms for themfelves than they did. The parliament at Wdfminjler were quickly advifed of the king's Preparation& march, and by way of precaution expelled all delinquents out of the city; of the parlia· they raifed the militia; they moftered the trained bands, to the number ofment. fourteen thoufand; and in a few weeks had got together an army of near fixty thoufand brave foldiers. Mr. Eachard reprefents the parliament as in p. 689. a terrible panic, and projeCting meg.ns to efcape out of the land; whereas in reality, the unha.ppy king was the pity of his friends, and the contempt of his enemies. General Cromwell fent an exprefs to the parliament, to have a watchful eye over the preiliyterians, who were in confederacy with thefcots, and told them, that the reafon of his not interpofing between the enemy and England was, becaufe he was refolved to reduce Scotland effectually before winter. He defired the houfe to collect their forces together, and make the beft fl:and they could till he could come up with the enemy, when he doubted not but to give a good account of them. At the fame time he fent major-general Lambert with a fl:rong body of horfc:: to harrafs the king's forces, while himfelf with the body of the army, hafl:ened after, leaving lieutenant-general Monk with a fufficient force to fecure his conquefts, and reduce the reil: of the country, which he quickly accomplifhed. Bilnop Burnet fays, there was an order and difcipline Burnet, p~ among the englijh, and a face of gravity and piety that amazed all people; sS. mofl: of them were independents and baptifl:s, but all gifted men, and preached as they were moved, but never above once di!turbed the public worfhip. The earl of Derby was the only nobleman in England who raifed I s·oo K' r. h k' h r. . . zng at men !Or t e young mg, w o be,ore he could JOin the royal army was Worceller. G g g 2 defeated
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