Edward Earl of CLARENDON, Sord High CHANCELLOR of Englan and Chancellor of the University of Oxford AnDni.1667. THE HISTORY OF THE REBELLION and CIVIL WARS IN ENGLAND, Begun in the Year 1641. With the precedent Paffages, and Actions, that contri- EDWARD Earl of CLARENDON, Late Lord High Chancellor of England, Privy Counsellor in Κτῆμα ἐς ἀεί. Thucyd. Ne quid Falfi dicere audeat, ne quid Veri non audeat. Cicero. VOLUME II. PART 2. OXFORD, Printed at the THEATER, An. Dom. MDCCVII. Clar. Press. 31.6.17. THE Hiftory of the Rebellion, &c. BOOK VIII. 2 Efd. v. 9. And falt waters fhall be found in the fweet, and all friends fhall deftroy one another; then fhall Wit hide it felf, and Understanding withdraw it felf into his fecret Chamber. And the People shall be oppreffed every one by another, and every one by his Neighbour; the Child fball behave himself proudly against the Ancient, and the Bafe against the Honourable. A S the Winter had been very unprofperous, and unsuccessful to the King, in the diminution and lofs of thofe Forces, upon which he chiefly depended to fuftain the power of the Enemy the year enfuing; fo the Spring enter'd with no bet ter prefage. When both Armies had enter'd into their Winter Quarters, to refresh themselves after fo much fatigue, the great preparation that was made at London, and the fame of. fending St William Waller into the Weft, put the King upon the refolution of having fuch a Body in his way, as might give him interruption, without Prince Maurice's being diturb'd in his Siege of Plymouth; which was not thought to be able to make long refiftance. To this purpose the Lord Hopton was appointed to Command an Army apart, to be. levied out of the Garrifon of Bristol, and those Western Counties adjacent newly reduced; where his Reputation and Intereft was very great; and by it he had in a fhort time Vol. II. Part 2. Hh raifed |