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Petitions from the military to the civil power are always looked on as disguised or rather undisguised commands, and are of a nature widely different from petitions presented by any other rank of men. This further confirmed the suspicion of a dangerous conspiracy. * Clarendon, vol. i. p. 247. Whitlocke, p. 43. Rush, vol v. p. 240. * Rush. vol. v. p. 255.
They insisted, that he should submit to the punishment of his most faithful adherents. And they desired him to acquiesce in their settlement of the militia, and to confer on their adherents the entire power of the sword. * Clarendon, vol. iii. p. 171. Whitlocke, p. 6*. * Rush, vol. vi. p. 202. Rush, vol. vi. p. 166. Clarendon, vol. iii. p. 119.
* Franklyn, p 243. Rushworth, vol. i. p. 500. Franklyn, p. 251. Rushworth, vol. i. p. 513. Whitlocke, p. 9 * Rushworth, vol. i. p. 526, Whitlocke, p. 9. The supply, though voted, was not as yet passed into a law; and the commons resolved to employ the interval in providing some barriers to their rights and liberties so lately violated.
Strafford, in passing from his apartment to Tower Hill, where the scaffold was erected, stopped under Laud's windows, with whom he had long lived in intimate friendship, and entreated the assistance of his prayers in those awful moments which were approaching. * Clarendon, vol. i. p. 261, 262. Rush. vol. v. p. 264. See note G, at the end of the volume * Whitlocke, p. 44. Rush. vol. v. p. 265.
Lilly applied to Whitlocke in favour of his rival, Wharton, the astrologer, and his prayer was granted, and again in behalf of Oughtred, the celebrated mathematician. The two astrologers were sent for in the same state in the following year to the siege of Colchester, which they predicted would soon fall into possession of the parliament.
To prevent these disorders, martial law, so requisite to the support of discipline, was exercised upon the soldiers. * Rushworth, vol. i. p. 419. Rushworth, vol. i. p. 419. * Rushworth, vol. i. p. 422. Rushworth, vol i. p. 481. v Parl. Hist. vol. vii. p. 310. v Rushworth, vol. i. p. 419. Whitlocke, p. 7.
The army in Ireland was not much short of twenty thousand men; so that, upon the whole, the commonwealth maintained, in 1652, a standing army of more than fifty thousand men. His frequent enterprises obliged him from time to time to augment them. At the time of the battle of Worcester the parliament had on foot about eighty thousand men, partly militia, partly regular forces. * Whitlocke, p. 298.
He came, therefore, to the house of peers, and pronouncing the usual form of words, "Let it be law, as is desired," gave full sanction and authority to the petition. * Rushworth, vol. i. p. 635. Whitlocke, p. 11. Rushworth, vol. i. p. 607. * Rushworth, vol. i. p. 605. Rushworth, vol. i. p. 610. Parl. Hist vol. viii. p. 197. v Rushworth, vol. i. p. 613, Journ. 7th June, 1628. Parl.
Sometimes they were thrown into mad-houses, sometimes into prisons; sometimes whipped, sometimes pilloried. * The following story is told by Whitlocke, p. 599.
Whitlocke in his Memorials of English Affairs, under the date of 1649, speaks of many witches being apprehended about Newcastle, upon the information of a person whom he calls the Witch-finder, who, as his experiments were nearly the same, though he is not named, we may reasonably suppose to be Hopkins; and in the following year about Boston in Lincolnshire.
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