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All these ideas, and many more, anticipating with surprising exactness the Parliamentary Reform movements of much later times, were agitating the Parliamentary Army while the King was in his captivity at Holmby. Pamphlets from London, actively circulated among the regiments, aided the discussion and supplied it with topics and catch- words.
This continued for some months, when a struggle began between the army and the Parliament to decide whose captive he was. The army subsequently, by a plot, got possession of Holmby, and, practically making prisoners of the garrison and the commissioners of Parliament, they abducted the king and took him to a house near Huntingdon.
Opposite Projects Of The Presbyterians And Independents The King Is Brought From Holmby To The Army Independents Driven From Parliament Restored By The Army Origin Of The Levellers King Escapes From Hampton Court, And Is Secured In The Isle Of Wight Mutiny In The Army Public Opinion In Favour Of The King Scots Arm In His Defence The Royalists Renew The War The Presbyterians Assume The Ascendancy Defeat Of The Scots Suppression Of The Royalists Treaty Of Newport The King Is Again Brought To The Army The House Of Commons Is Purified The King's Trial Judgment And Execution Reflections.
Samuel Johnson Coventry Lady Godiva and Peeping Tom Belvoir Castle Charnwood Forest Groby and Bradgate Elizabeth Widvile and Lady Jane Grey Ulverscroft Priory Grace Dieu Abbey Ashby de la Zouche Langley Priory Leicester Abbey and Castle Bosworth Field Edgehill Naseby The Land of Shakespeare Stratford-on-Avon Warwick Kenilworth Birmingham Boulton and Watt Fotheringhay Castle Holmby House Bedford Castle John Bunyan Woburn Abbey and the Russells Stowe Whaddon Hall Great Hampden Creslow House.
The king during his captivity at Holmby divided his time between his studies and amusements. A considerable part of the day he spent in his closet, the rest in playing at bowls, or riding in the neighbourhood. He was strictly watched; and without an order from the parliament no access could be obtained to the royal presence.
The struggle, long foreseen, began actually in the first two months and a half of the King's stay at Holmby, i.e. in February, March, and April, 1646-7. The gauntlet was thrown down by Parliament.
Whalley, in accordance with his instructions, was willing to convey the King and the Commissioners back to Holmby; but this his Majesty positively declined. Till there should be farther deliberation, therefore, his Majesty was quartered at the nearest convenient house, which chanced to be Sir John Cutts's at Childersley, near Cambridge. Here he remained over Sunday the 6th and Monday the 7th.
Holmby or Holdenby House in Northamptonshire had been built by Lord Chancellor Hatton in Elizabeth's time, but afterwards purchased by Queen Anne for her son Charles while he was but Duke of York. It was a stately mansion, with gardens, very much to the King's taste.
But at this moment arrived the votes of the two houses for his removal to Holmby: the current of Scottish loyalty was instantly checked; and the fear of a rupture between the nations induced the estates to observe a solemn fast, that they might deserve the blessing of Heaven, and to consult the commissioners of the kirk, that they might proceed with a safe conscience.
These questions take us back to the King at Holmby. His Majesty, watching the course of the struggle between the Parliament and the Army, had at last, on the 12th of May, sent in his long-deferred Answer to the Nineteen Propositions.
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