E he was ignorant of the petitions prefented against him, or CHAR. I. was not foon informed of the army's remonftrance, fince 1648. every one had free accefs to him. laft propo Nov. 21, 23. Three days after the parliament had received the remon- The king ftrance, letters came from the commiffioners at Newport, rejects the with his majesty's anfwer concerning the marquis of Ormond, fition conand the bishops lands; namely, that he could not give any cerning orders to the marquis before the treaty was figned, but then Ireland. would do as both houfes defired; and if the marquis refufed Rufhworth, to obey, would take fuch measures against him as fhould be VII. p. 1332 fatisfactory to the two houfes. That as to the bifhops lands, 1334. he perfifted in his former offers. This anfwer afforded no great hopes of a fpeedy accommodation. However, as it was delivered the 16th of the month, two days before the prefenting of the army's remonftrance, it was hoped the next news from Newport would be more fatisfactory. But on the p. 1338. 25th the parliament was informed, by letters from the commiffioners, that the king had pofitively refused to add any thing to his former answers %. is recalled to the army, This was not all. They were acquainted at the fame Hammond time, that the general had required colonel Hammond to attend him at the head-quarters, and fent colonel Ewers to and Ewers take the command of his majefty in the Isle of Wight, who fent in his kept the king under very ftrict cuftody. Thus the precau- Nov. 25. tions taken by the parliament, to hinder the king from com- Ibid. ing to treat in perfon at London, for fear he should meet with too many friends, were the cause that they could not be mafter of his perfon, when it would have been moft neceffary. Two days after, the commons received a letter from Nov. 27. colonel Hammond, with the general's order to him to repair to the army, and refign his command to colonel Ewers. Whereupon, the commons voted, that colonel Hammond Fruitless fhould be required to ftay in the Isle of Wight, and the ge- vote of the neral be acquainted with this vote. But Hammond was Ibid. now gone to the army, and had refigned the cuftody of the king to colonel Ewers. Notwithstanding all this, the par- Confideraliament feems not to have defpaired of agreeing with the tion of the king, fince the commons deferred the confideration of the ftrance army's remonftrance, till the 1ft of December, in order to put off. be better able to answer it when they should know the king's P. 1341. final refolution. The fame day, the general received peti- Petitions to Kk 3 g The king alone difputed upon the feveral articles, with the parliament's commiffioners, none of his commons. remon Whitelock. tions the general. attendants being permitted to speak. CHAR. I. tions from the forces in the north, and in Wales, agreeable 1648. to the army's remonftrance. orders to the mons. After the general had thus made himself mafter of the Letter and king's perfon, without the privity of the two houfes, it was general from not very likely he fhould be difpofed to receive their orders. the com- Nevertheless, the commons told him, in a letter from their fpeaker, That his orders to colonel Ewers were contrary to Rushworth, their refolutions, and colonel Hammond's inftructions, and that it was the pleasure of the houfe, he fhould recal his orders, and fuffer colonel Hammond to attend his charge in the Isle of Wight. But the general and council of war took no notice of this order. VII.p.1340. In vain. The king is Hurst caftle. The next day, the king, by command of the general, removed to was removed by lieutenant-colonel Cobbet to Hurst-castle in Hampshire, fituated on a narrow piece of land, running into Cook. the fea, over-against the Isle of Wight, and the parliament was not informed of it till three days after ". Nov. 30. Firebrace. The army's Nov. 30. Mean while, the army was not idle, being refolved to run all hazards to prevent the conclufion of the treaty. The fame day, November the 30th, they published a declaration or manifefto, wherein they clearly difcovered their defigns, and which was to this effect: "That the army being full of fad apprehenfions condeclaration.cerning the danger and evil of the treaty with the king, Rushworth, "and of any accommodation with him, or restitution of "him thereupon, they did, by a remonftrance, make their Whitelock.application thereby to the houfe of commons. VII.p 1341. That "they took this courfe out of an earnest defire, that those "matters of highest concernment to the public intereft of "the nation might be purfued and provided for, if poffible, "by those whofe proper work and truft it was: but to their "grief they found, that inftead of any fatisfaction, or rea"fonable anfwer thereunto, they were wholly rejected, "without any confideration of them. For they were laid "afide till the Monday following, by which time the "treaty, as then fuppofed, would have been concluded; "but that failing, and two days more being added to the "treaty, the confideration of their remonftrance in the day "appointed was waved and laid afide; the treaty in the "mean while, going on in the former way and terms, and like to be concluded the very next day. The army there"fore having received no answer to their former proposals, h This caftle was built by king Henry VIII. It is joined to the land by a narrow neck of fand, which, at they fpring tides, and in ftormy v ather, is covered by the fea. The is very moift and unhealthy. "they could not but remain confident, that the prevailing CHAR. I. part of those to whom they did apply, had as it were their 1648. eyes wilfully fhut, and ears ftopt, against any thing of "light or reafon offered to them, fo as not to difcern the "dangers wherewith the kingdom was threatned. "The army then feeing nothing left, to which the par"liament's engaging and perfifting in fuch ways, could ra"tionally be attributed, less than a treacherous of corrupt "neglect of, and apoftacy from, the public truft repofed in "them, they thought fit to appeal to the common judg❝ments of indifferent and uncorrupted men, and to the more "righteous judgment of God above all." After juftifying this extraordinary appeal in the best manner they could, they admonifhed fuch members as were upright, and had a juft fenfe of thofe things, to protest against the refolutions of the houfe, and withdraw, promifing to look upon them as perfons that had the chief trust of the kingdom remaining in them, and to adhere to them, and be guided by them, till the introducing of a more formal power, in a juft representative, were speedily endeavoured. Then they declared, that they were ready to lay down their arms, if their remonftrance were answered; but that the little notice taken of their propofitions, made them fenfible there was nothing to be hoped. And therefore the cafe being fo extraordinary, and the danger fo preffing, they were drawing up with their army to London, there to follow providence, as God fhould clear their way. to the city The first of December, the general writ to the city, to The geneinform them of the army's advance towards London, on ac- ral's letter count of the parliament's contempt of their remonftrance of London. that they had no thought of plunder, or other wrong to the Rushworth, city, or fo much as troubling the inhabitants with quarter- VII.p.1349, ing any foldiers; but that, for prevention of all violence, he 1350. defired forty thousand pounds might be provided by the next day. The house of commons agreed, that the city should fend this fum to the army, and acquainted the general, that it was the house's pleasure he should not remove nearer London. The fecond of this month, the houfe took the king's offers into confideration, but without coming to any conclufion. Whilft they were debating, the general, with fe- The generat veral regiments, came and took up their quarters at White- comes to Kk 4 hall, On the fecurity of the arrears due to the army from the city. Whitelock, London. P. 358. CHAR. I. hall, St. James's, the Meuse, and other places in the skirts of 1648. the city, which he judged convenient for his defigns. Vote upon the removal to Hurst VII.p.1351, The 3d, being Sunday, the parliament did not fit. But, on the 4th, the commons refumed the debate of the king's of the king conceffions, which was interrupted by the news of the king's removal to Hurst caftle. Whereupon they voted immedicastle. ately, that the carrying the king prifoner to Hurst castle, Rushworth, was without the advice and confent of the house. After that, 1352. they debated again the king's offers, and fat all the day and Clarendon, night, till five o'clock in the morning. At laft, it was proIII. p. 183. Whitelock. pofed, whether the queftion fhould be put, and carried by a hundred and forty, against an hundred and four. Then the main question being put, it was voted, that his majefty's conceffions to the propofitions of parliament upon the treaty, were fufficient grounds for fettling the peace of the kingdom.' But I cannot think it was unanimoufly, as the lord Clarendon affirms *. What has been juft feen feems to fhow rather, there were. many members not content with this refolution. Committee to confer with the general. Immediately after, the houfe appointed a committee to confer with the general, for the better procuring a good correfpondence between the parliament and the army; and then Rufhworth, adjourned to Wednesday. The fame day, feveral other reVII.p.1352. giments came and quartered in the fuburbs of London; and ments come the general caufed a proclamation to be made, requiring all to London. delinquents, who had not perfected their compofitions, to depart ten miles from London for a month, on pain of being proceeded against as prifoners of war. More regi mafter of the the com mons put The general Wednesday, the 6th of December, the general fent two becomes regiments to Weftminster, and the city trained-bands were old palace. difcharged, who had been fet there fome months fince, for Forty-one guards to the parliament. After the foldiers were drawn up members of in the court of requefts, on the ftairs, and in the lobby before the house, when the members offered to go in, colounder cuf- nel Pride, having a paper of names in his hand, feized upon tody. one and forty, and fent them into the court of wards, where VII.p.1353, they were kept under guard. The house having notice 1355- thereof, fent their ferjeant at arms to acquaint these memWhitelock, bers, that they fhould forthwith attend the fervice of the Clarendon, houfe. But the officer of the guard answered, he had order III. p. 183. to fecure them, which order he was to obey before any other Ludlow. command. Rushworth, P. 359. k The lord Clarendon fays, the main queftion was fo clearly voted, that the houfe was not divided. Tom. 111. P. 183. Not 1 Many, fays Whitelock, were glad of an honest pretence to be excufed from appearing in the houfe, because of the buncis of the army, the de bates Not long after colonel Whaley, with other officers, pre- CHAR. I. fented to the houfe a paper intitled, Propofals and defires of 1648. the army in vindication of their conduct,' the fubftance whereof was to this effect: presented to Rushworth 66 1. Whereas several members of your house ", were in The army's "the year 1647, impeached by yourfelves for treafon, or propofals "for high crimes and mifdemeanors, in relation to the trea- the house of "fonable engagement in the city of London; the violence commons. "then done upon the parliament, the levying of a new war, VII.p.1354"and other evils, in maintainance and profecution thereof; Whitelock, "and upon clear proofs against them, were by your cen"fure expelled the houfe, and difabled from farther trust "therein, and upon new writs iffued out, new members "were chosen and returned in fome of their rooms; and "yet by the prevalence of their faction, when in the laft "fummer's wars, divers faithful members were ingaged "abroad upon neceffary public fervice, and others through "malignant tumults and difturbances could not fafely at"tend the house, the fame perfons were afterwards re-ad"mitted to fit in the house, and vote as formerly, without 66 any trial or fatisfaction in the things whereof they were "accused. 2. Whereas by the confederacy of major-general "Brown, now fheriff of London, with the faid impeached "members and others, the Scots were invited and drawn "in to invade this kingdom the last fummer, infomuch as "when upon their actual invafion the house proceeded to "declare them enemies, and those that adhered to them, "traitors; yet the faid confederators, and other treacherous "members, to the number of ninety and odd, as upon the "divifion of the house appeared, did by their counsels and "votes endeavour to hinder the house from declaring against "their confederate invaders: we defire, that the faid ma"jor-general Brown may be alfo fecured and brought to ¢ judgment, and that the rest of the ninety and odd per"fons diffenting against the said vote, may be excluded the ❝house. 3. Whereas in a continued feries of your proceeding ❝for many months together, we have feen the prevalence "of the fame treacherous, corrupt, and divided counfels, through factions and private interefts, oppofing or obftructing justice in all kinds, diverting your counfels from bates about which went extremely high. Weitelock, p. 356. Panzil Holles, Lionel Kopley, ma any jor-general Maffey, &c. Rushworth, |