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An impeachment was resolved on; and in order to escape their fury, he thought proper secretly to withdraw, and retire into Holland. * Clarendon, vol. i. p. 177. Whitlocke, p. 38, Rush. vol. iii. p. 1365. Clarendon, vol. i. p. 177. Whitlocke, p. 38. Rush. vol. i. p 129.
This clergyman, who was dean of Peterborough, was extremely zealous for ecclesiastical ceremonies: and so far from permitting the communicants to break the sacramental bread with their fingers, a privilege on which the Puritans strenuously insisted, he would not so much as allow it to be cut with an ordinary household instrument. * Clarendon, vol. i. p. 237. Whitlocke, p. 45.
Whitlocke, in his Memorials of Affairs in his Own Times, takes repeated notice of him, says that, meeting him in the street in the spring of 1645, he enquired of Lilly as to what was likely speedily to happen, who predicted to him the battle of Naseby, and notes in 1648 that some of his prognostications "fell out very strangely, particularly as to the king's fall from his horse about this time."
Charles alleged, as the reason of this measure, certain seditious expressions, which, he said, had, in their accusation of the duke, dropped from these members. Moved by this example, the house of peers were roused from their inactivity; and claimed liberty for the earl of Arundel, who had been lately confined in the Tower. * Rushworth, vol. i. p. 359. Whitlocke, p. 6. Rushworth, vol. i. p. 356.
* Whitlocke, p. 36. Whitlocke, p. 36 * Clarendon, vol. i. p. 172.
Under the government of this latter nobleman, the pacific plans, now come to great maturity, and forwarded by his vigor and industry, seemed to have operated with full success, and to have bestowed at last on that savage country the face of a European settlement. * Whitlocke, p. 40. Dugdale, p. 72. Burnet's Memoirs of the House of Hamilton, p. 184, 185. Clarendon, vol. ii. p. 299.
* Rush. vol. vii. p. 8, 15. Whitlocke, p. 118. Rush. vol. vii. p. 7. * Whitlocke, p. 133. Clarendon, vol. v. p. 629, 630. Whitlocke, p. 141.
They informed the English parliament of this unexpected incident, and assured them that they had entered into no private treaty with the king. They applied to him for orders to Bellasis, governor of Newark, to surrender that town, now reduced to extremity; and the orders were instantly obeyed. * Rush, vol. vii. p. 267. Whitlocke, p. 208. * Rush, vol. vii. p. 271. Clarendon, vol. v. p. 23.
All the doctrines which the Romish church had borrowed from some of the fathers, and which freed the spiritual from subordination to the civil power, were now adopted by the church of England, and interwoven with her political and religious tenets. * State Papers collected by the earl of Clarendon, p 338. Whitlocke, p. 22.
In 1643, I became familiarly known to Sir Bulstrode Whitlocke, a member of the House of Commons; he being sick, his urine was brought unto me by Mrs.
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