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A woman of Hertfordshire, illuminated by prophetical visions, desired admittance into the military council, and communicated to the officers a revelation, which assured them that their measures were consecrated from above, and ratified by a heavenly sanction. * Whitlocke, p. 360.
Among the fanatics of the house, there was an active member much noted for his long prayers, sermons, and harangues. He was a leather-seller in London, his name Praise-God Barebone. * Whitlocke, p. 543, 548. * Conference held at Whitehall.
Whitlocke p. 269. Cl. Walker, p. 38 No sooner was intelligence of this tumult conveyed to Reading, than the army was put in motion. The two houses being under restraint, they were resolved, they said, to vindicate, against the seditious citizens, the invaded privileges of parliament, and restore that assembly to its just freedom of debate and counsel.
Numberless were the extravagancies which broke out among the people. * Whitlocke. See note U, at the end of the volume. Though the levellers had for a time been suppressed by the audacious spirit of Cromwell, they still continued to propagate their doctrines among the private men and inferior officers, who pretended a right to be consulted, as before, in the administration of the commonwealth.
But it was soon observed, that the only use which they made of their funds was to establish lecturers in all the considerable churches; men who, without being subjected to Episcopal authority, employed themselves entirely in preaching and spreading the fire of Puritanism. * State Trials, vol. v. p. 74. Franklyn, p. 839. Rush. vol. ii. p. 150, 151. Whitlocke, p. 15.
News, too, arrived that Montrose himself, after some more successes, was at last routed; and this only remaining hope of the royal party finally extinguished. * These compositions were different, according to the demerits of the person: but by a vote of the house, they could not be under two years' rent of the delinquent's estate. Journ. 11th of August, 1648 Whitlocke, p. 160.
* Rush, vol. vii. p. 43. Whitlocke, p. 145. Whitlocke, p. 145. * Rush. vol. vii. p. 44. Clarendon, vol. iv. p. 656, 657. Walker p. 130, 131 The slain on the side of the parliament exceeded those on the side of the king: they lost a thousand men; he not above eight hundred.
Sir George Ratcliffe, the earl's intimate friend and confidant, was accused of high treason, sent for from Ireland, and committed to close custody. * Clarendon, vol. i. p. 192. Whitlocke, p. 37. * Clarendon, vol. i. p. 193. Clarendon, vol. i. p 214.
Clarendon, vol. iii. p. 73. Whitlocke, p. 62. Clarendon, vol. iii. p. 75. * Whitlocke, p. 62. Clarendon, vol. iii p. 87. The parliament had much greater resources for money; and had by consequence every military preparation in much greater order and abundance.
'Tis a pretty freedom she takes, but you may thank yourself; she thinks because you call her fellow-servant, she may use you accordingly. I bred her better, but you have spoiled her. Is it true that my Lord Whitlocke goes Ambassador where my Lord Lisle should have gone? I know not how he may appear in a Swedish Court, but he was never meant for a courtier at home, I believe.
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