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Most of them continued in his service; but a small part, having imbibed in Ireland a strong animosity against the Catholics, and hearing the king's party universally reproached with Popery, soon after deserted to the Parliament. * Whitlocke, p 78, 103. Rush. vol. vi. p. 680, 788.
The event was easily foreseen: but the principles, and reasonings, and behavior of the parties engaged in the trial, were much canvassed and inquired into; and nothing could equal the favor paid to the one side, except the hatred which attended the other. * Rush. vol. ii. p. 355. Whitlocke, p. 24.
Prince Rupert, with equal precipitation, drew off the remains of his army, and retired into Lancashire. * Clarendon, vol. v. p. 507, 508. See Warwick. Clarendon, vol. v. p. 511. * Rush. vol. vi. p. 638. Prince Rupert: Whitlocke, p. 88 v Rush. vol. vi. p. 641. While these events passed in the north, the king's affairs in the south were conducted with more success and greater abilities.
He replied, that as the paper sent him neither contained any address to the two houses of parliament, nor any acknowledgment of their authority, he could not communicate it to them. * Clarendon, vol. iii. p. 442. Rush, vol vi. p. 566. Whitlocke, p. 77. Clarendon, vol. iii. p. 444. Rush. vol. vi. p. 569, 570. Whitlocke, p. 94.
Whitlocke, p. 49. Dugdale, p. 71. Nalson, vol. ii. p. 668. When this remonstrance was dispersed, it excited every where the same violent controversy which attended it when introduced into the house of commons.
The example of Henry VIII., who had once, in his arbitrary reign, practiced a like method of levying a regular supply, was generally deemed a very insufficient authority. * Rushworth, vol. i. p. 415. Rushworth, vol. i. p. 416. * Rushworth, vol. i. p. 418. Whitlocke, p. 8. Who has dealt with him, and what speeches or persuasions were used to that purpose?
At a conference late one night at Essex-house, to which Whitlocke and Maynard were invited, the Scottish Chancellor Loudoun moved the business warily in a speech which Whitlocke mischievously tries to report in its native Scotch "You ken vary weele that Lieutenant-general Cromwell is no friend of ours," &c. "You ken vary weele the accord 'twixt the twa kingdoms" &c.
The swelling of the river by a thaw divided one part of the army from the other. * Clarendon, vol. iii. p. 449. Whitlocke, p. 79. Whitlocke, p. 66. * Journ. 13th of February, 1645. Rush. vol. vi. p. 299. v Rush. vol. vi. p. 301.
When princes were in such dispositions, and had so few pretensions on each other, it could not be difficult to conclude a peace. * Rushworth, vol. ii. p. 23, 24. Rushworth, vol. ii. p. 75. Whitlocke, p. 14. Nothing more happy can be imagined than the situation in which England then stood with regard to foreign affairs.
To overcome this difficulty, the popular leaders employed expedients for which they were beholden partly to their own industry, partly to the indiscretion of their adversaries. These were exposed to all the insults of the ungovernable multitude. * Rush. vol. iv. p. 560. Whitlocke, p. 43. * Whitlocke, p. 43. Clarendon, vol. i. p. 232, 256. Rush. vol. v. p. 248, 1279. v Whitlocke, ut supra.
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