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Every measure pursued by the commons, and, still more, every attempt made by their partisans, were full of the most inveterate hatred against the hierarchy, and showed a determined resolution of subverting the whole ecclesiastical establishment. * Rush. vol. v. p. 385, 386. Nalson, vol. ii. p. 482. Nalson, vol. ii. p 511. * Rush. vol. v. p. 359
The Scots took possession of Newcastle; and though sufficiently elated with their victory, they preserved exact discipline, and persevered in their resolution of paying for every thing, in order still to maintain the appearance of an amicable correspondence with England. * Rush. vol. iii. p. 1279. Nalson, vol. ii. p. 427. * Clarendon, vol. i. p. 143. Rush. vol. iii. p. 1255.
Walker p 6. The extreme contempt entertained for the natives in Ireland, made the popular leaders believe that it would be easy at any time to suppress their rebellion, and recover that kingdom: nor were they willing to lose, by too hasty success, the advantage which that rebellion would afford them in their projected encroachments on the prerogative. * Nalson, vol. ii. p 318.
By an order, therefore, of council, they had been carried to remote prisons; Bastwic to Scilly, Prynne to Jersey, Burton to Guernsey; all access to them was denied; and the use of books, and of pen, ink and paper, was refused them. * Nalson, vol. i. p 783. May, p. 79.
Never did refined Athens so exult in diffusing the sciences and liberal arts over a savage world, never did generous Rome so please herself in the view of law and order established by her victorious arms, as the Scots now rejoiced in communicating their barbarous zeal and theological fervor to the neighboring nations. * Nalson, vol. i. p. 747. May, p. 104. Rush. vol. v. p. 365.
The lawyers had declared, that martial law could not be exercised, except in the very presence of an enemy; and because it had been found necessary to execute a mutineer, the generals thought it advisable, for their own safety, to apply for a pardon from the crown. * Nalson, vol. ii. p. 5. Clarendon, vol. i. p. 159. * Rush. vol. iii. 1190, 1191, 1192, etc. May, p. 64. Rush. vol. iii. p 1199.
"I have not seen him, Sir." "Go immediately, study the man well, do you hear? and come to me. Let no one know your purpose." Nalson disappeared. I was alarmed. If "the Duke" should prove to be an impostor, we were indeed ruined. In five minutes, an hour, it seemed, Nalson stood before us. "Is it he?" said Dalton, looking fixedly upon the face of the usher. No reply.
* Nalson, vol. ii. p. 905. Temple, p. 33. Rush. vol. v. p. 402. * Temple, p. 60. Borlase, Hist. p. 28. Whitlocke, p. 49. v Rush. vol. v. p. 400, 401. v* Rush. vol. v. p. 402. The king received an account of this insurrection by a messenger despatched from the north of Ireland. He immediately communicated his intelligence to the Scottish parliament.
As a consequence, the bishops were to be deprived of their seats in the house of peers; a measure not unacceptable to the zealous friends of liberty, who observed with regret the devoted attachment of that order to the will of the monarch. * Clarendon, vol. i. p. 203. Whitlocke, p. 37. Nalson, vol. i. p. 666. Rush. vol. v. p. 171. * Clarendon, vol. i. p. 237.
Mildmay, a notorious monopolist, yet having associated himself with the ruling party, was still allowed to keep his seat. * Clarendon, vol. i. p. 206. Whitlocke, p. 37. Rush. vol. v. p. 235, 359. Nalson, vol. i. p. 807. Lord Clarendon says it was entirely new; but there are instances of it in the reign of Elizabeth. D'Ewes, p. 296, 352. There are also instances in the reign of James.
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