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Amidst all these enormities, the sacred name of religion resounded on every side; not to stop the hands of these murderers, but to enforce their blows, and to steel their hearts against every movement of human or social sympathy. * Temple, p. 84. Temple, p. 99, 106. Rash. vol. v. p. 414 * Whitlocke, p. 47. Rush. vol. v. p. 416. Temple, p 100. v Temple, p. 85, 106. v* Temple, p 94, 107, 108.
The disgrace of General Whitlocke, which had been inflicted upon him so recently, by the following sentence, it was hoped would have so operated upon British military officers as to have prevented the recurrence of such infamous conduct.
When the high court of justice was signing the warrant for the execution of the king, a matter, if possible, still more serious, Cromwell, taking the pen in his hand, before he subscribed his name, bedaubed with ink the face of Martin, who sat next him. * Whitlocke, p. 647. Bates. * Trial of the Regicides. * Bates.
The king came to the camp; and having exerted himself in an action, gained on the affections of the soldiery, who were more desirous of serving under a young prince of spirit and vivacity, than under a committee of talking gown-men. The clergy were alarmed. They ordered Charles immediately to leave the camp. * Sir Edw. Walker, p. 165. Sir Edw. Walker p. 168. * Whitlocke, p. 449.
"You may do so," replied Joyce; "but in the mean time, the king must immediately go with me." Resistance was vain. The king, after protracting the time as long as he could, went into his coach and was safely conducted to the army, who were hastening to their rendezvous at Triplo Heath, near Cambridge. * Whitlocke, p. 254. Warwick, p. 299. Rush. vol. vii. p. 614, 515. Clarendon, vol. v. p. 47.
In opposition to this reasoning of the Independents, many of the Presbyterians showed the inconvenience and danger of the projected alteration. * Whitlocke, p. 114, 115. Rush. vol. vii. p. 6.
Clarendon, vol. ii. p. 336. * Dugdale, p. 78. Whitlocke, p. 51. Rush. vol. v. p. 466. Nalson, vol. ii. p, 794. v Clarendon, vol. ii. p. 355. When the commons employed in their remonstrance language so severe and indecent, they had not been actuated entirely by insolence and passion; their views were more solid and profound.
Plying his learning in this fashion, and assisted by Whitlocke, St. John, and the other lawyers in the Assembly and in Parliament, Selden had, throughout 1645, kept up an Erastian obstruction to the Presbyterians.
Though it be commonly easy in civil wars to get intelligence, the armies were within six miles of each other ere either of the generals was acquainted with the approach of his enemy. * Whitlocke, p. 59. Clarendon, vol. iii, p. 27, 28, etc. Clarendon, vol. iii. p. 44. The royal army lay near Banbury; that of the parliament, at Keinton, in the county of Warwick.
And when the populace, by land and by water, passed Whitehall, they still asked, with insulting shouts, "What has become of the king and his cavaliers? * Nalson, vol. ii. p 833. Whitlocke. p. 52 Dugdale, p. 82. Clarendon, vol ii p. 380.
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