Chap. Ill. Tbe HIS T 0 R Y of the PuRITANS. 75 broke off the treaty ; an account of which, he. fent her in the following 1(. ~harles f. l~tter, which feems to -breathe an air of too great fatisfaction. ~ Dear Heart, Id h I fi k . d • •·h .King's lcttet· cc wHAT I to t ee a wee , concermng a goo partwg Wil our to the queen. , " lords and commons here, was on Monday !aft handfomly per- " formed; now if I do any thing unhandfome, or difadvantagious to my " felf or friends, in order to a treaty, it will be meerly my own fault- " Now I promif<! thee, if the treaty be renewed (which I believe it will ,, not) without fome eminent good fuccefs on my fide,. it fhall be to my " honour and advantage, I being now as well free from the place of bafe . " and mutinous motion (that is to fay, our mungrel parliament here) as " of the chief caufers, for whom I may jufily expect to be chidden by " thee, for having fuffered thee to be vexed by themMr. Whitlock fays, this a!Tembly fat again at Oxford in the year 1645. and voted againfi the direflory, and for the common prayer; but the king's caufe being grown defperate, they foon after (hifted for themfelves, and made their peace at Wejlminjler, upon the bell: terms they could obtain. On the I 9th of January 1643-4, the Jcots army, confifiing of twen- Scots army ty one thoufand men, under the command of general Leven, croffed the f'st:;s Eng– <Iweed at Berwick, and enter'd England. The two houfes fent a corn- R~fuw. Vol. mittee to meet them, which being joined by another of that nation, VI. p. 6o.3. was called the committee qfboth kingdoms, and were a fort of camp parliament, to direct the motions of the army, which after fome time united with the lord Fairfax's forces, and with thofe under the command of the earl of Manchejler, and lieutenant general Cromwel, from the a!Tociated counties. The united armies laid fiege to the city of York, which prince Rupert having relie1•ed, occafioned the battle of Mm:fton lVfoor, wherein the prince was routed, with the lofs of three thou land men and his whole train of artillery; and thereupon the marquis of Ne7vcajtle, leaving the royal army, embarked with divers lords and gentlemen for Hamburgh, prince Rupert retiring towards Chefler, and deferting all the northern garrifons to the mercy of the enemy, which falling into their hands next fummer, concluded the war in thofe parts. His majefty however had better fuccefs in the weft, where being E. ifER'ex· firengthened by prince A1aurice, he followed the earl of Ef1ex, and {hut defeated in 1 · · 1 • h U' C ornwall up )lS army W!ltlln t e narrow parts of Cornwa!, fo that he could neither Ru!hw. Vol. engage or re treat. Here the king invited the earl to make his peace, but V. p. 6 91, he chooling rather to retire in a boat to Plynoutb, left his men to the for- 701, 705, tune of W«r. As foon as the general was gone, the horf~ under the corn- 7 10 ' L 2 mand
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