NOR Edward Earle of CLARENDON Lord High CHANCELLOR of England and Chancellor of the University of Oxford. An. D. 1667. HISTORY OF THE REBELLION and CIVIL WARS IN ENGLAND, Begun in the Year 1641. With the precedent Paffages, and Actions, that contri- Written by the Right Honourable EDWARD Earl of CLARENDON, κλῆμα ἐς ἀεί. Thucyd. Ne quid Falfi dicere audeat, ne quid Veri non audeat. Cicero. VOLUME II. PART 2. OXFORD, And falt waters fhall be found in the sweet, and all friends fhall deftroy one another; then fball Wit hide it felf, and Understanding withdraw it felf into his fecret Chamber. Ifa. III. 5. 1 And the People Shall be oppreffed every one by another, and every one by bis Neighbour; the Child fball behave himself proudly against the Ancient, and the Bafe against the Honourable. S the Winter had been very unprofperous, and unfuccefsful 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 better 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 diIturb'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 leyied out of the Garrison of Bristol, and thofe Western Counties adjacent newly reduced; where his Reputation and Vol. II. Part 2. Hh Interest |