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Nor were their Rushw. vi. 46, 85. Whitelock, 69, 172. altercations confined to religious matters. The decline of the royal cause had elevated the hopes of the English leaders.

He had been sent with Waller to oppose the progress of the royalists in the west; on his return he was ordered to prevent the junction of the royal cavalry with the forces under the king; and he then received a commission to protect the associated counties from insult. Whitelock, March, 4, 11, 15. Rushw. vi. 52, 53, 61, 62.

At Oxford Charles heard of the victory gained at Kilsyth, in the neighbourhood of Stirling, by Montrose, who, if he had been compelled to retreat from Dundee, was still able to maintain the superiority in the Highlands. Rushw. vi. 131. Carte's Ormond, iii. 415, 416, 418, 420, 423, 427.

It had been calculated that this attempt to amalgamate the plan of the parliament with that of the army might be accomplished in the space of Rushw. vii. 795. Memoirs of Hamiltons, 316. Herbert, 48. "Be not startled at my answer which I gave yesterday to the two houses; for if you truly understand it, I have put you in a right way, where before you were wrong."

Under Rushw. vi. 50, 55, 57. Lords' Journals, vii. 667. Evelyn's Memoirs, ii. this persuasion, he pictured to himself the wonderful things to be achieved by the gallantry of Montrose in Scotland, and looked forward with daily impatience to the arrival of an imaginary army of twenty thousand men from Ireland.