severall and indeed irreconcileable designes therein unto themselves Nor can it be doubted that the supream sole Power and Authority was the Apple of contention as well between them now thus divided as formerly between the King and them conjoyned what gawdy Colours soever are cast over and specious Pretences made to stalke before it Truth is This is the generall Ground of most Quarrels every man inheriting that ambitious Humour of our first common Parents even from the Disciples in their Poverty who were projecting for the Right-hand and for the Left and in a kingdome too unto the greatest States-men Nay a wise Gentleman of our Age observ'd it to be the Itch even of kitchin-boyes who should be the greatest Now the Independents though inconsiderable at the first even to Contempt being not above six among fourscore in the Assembly nor double that number visible in both Houses have plaid their Cards so well and follow'd their businesse so close that they have got the Purse of the kingdom at their command the whole Strength of it at their devotion and now grasp at the Authority also and seek to establish their Iniquity by a Law But by what steps and Degrees they have climb'd thus high is very difficult to discover exactly the foundation being laid deep under ground and carried up with as much Art as ever Building of that nature was Nor is it much materiall The greatest and onely unquestionable Authority of this Kingdome is of the King and His two Houses of Parliament to this their Ambition did aspire But having strugled in vain in the Houses for a good while they found the wind to sit too strong in their faces there and an impossibility for them to begin that way as the Temper of the Houses stood If the King were but in their hands being stript of all strength and in some desperate apprehension of Himself then their Hopes would handsomely smile upon them In order to this therefore a Quarrell is pickt with the Parliament the King's Person seized on and soon after the Parliament is most shamefully despised abused disgraced made to double at pleasure to eat up their owne Ordinances and Decrees perfectly over-awed and even trampled on So farre that one of their owne Members in the House openly told them That he could not call them a House of Parliament but a company of Gentlemen met together to fulfill the Iust of an Army Yet were they so wise and commenced their quarrell so cunningly as that they might keep two strings to their Bow and as the Beast which hath two holes to his den can stop or open either as the weather sits even so were their Proposals and Declarations contrived and sent abroad that by changing or interpreting one word they might comply with the King to destroy the Parliament if they should find themselves unable to mould it after their own Humour Or if once it were under their Girdle then afterward to bring the King to their Bent or lay him quite aside and by binding his Hands to establish the whole Power and Authority of the Kingdome in their owne And either of these Cards they drew as they had Occasion and convers'd with men of different Interests In the meane time they handle the King with much Civility and shewes of Indulgence allowing him the service of his Chaplains and the free use of the Liturgy which was denyed him by the Houses bearing him in hand that they preferr'd Episcopacy before the Presbyterian way and tickling him with ambiguous Promises to mollifie his hard Conceits toward them or at least to harden him the more against the Presbyterians and make that breach wider They had likewise the wit for to humour and stroak the Royall party by a thousand pretty devises and Artifices entertaining some of them in their bosomes allowing them Seats even in their Councels of War carefully forbearing in their Declarations to stigmatize them with that so familiar brand of Malignancy and filling them with hopes and expectations of I know not what great favours which they meant to perform when two Sundayes met together Thus having well divided the Kings party from the Presbyterians they had then a smooth and easie way to victory The City opens the Gates The Parliament trembles The chiefe Leaders of both Houses either flie for 't or withdraw for a while and play least-in-sight Which was fore-seen when Cromwell stole privately to Newmarket from London and asking Whether they had the King in their hand Being assured of that told some of the Officers That then they had the Parliament in their pockets Those who are of private spirits and for their owne either safety or designes constantly swamme with the streame and Tyde began now to tack about and to do Journy-worke for the stronger side and Vote with the prevailing party of which I will give but one Instance by the way and that is of Colonell Hervy who three daies before would undertake to beate them three miles into the Ground but upon their admission into the City was their first Advocate When the House was thus brought in a great measure to be at their devotion the last Rub in their Alley was the King He persisted in his Obstinacy and would not yeild up the Bucklers into their hands nor the power to protect his people Wherefore to bring His Majesty under the more advantage by insinuations both of danger to His Person and of an impossibility in them to save Him from the Agitators whom yet they countenanced for that purpose and withall by secret promises of faire complyance he is juggled into the Isle of Wight After that Bills are provided with pretence of condescension lest they should seeme to invade the Throne per saltum but in very deed such as would have stript him bare of all Soveraignty and of power to protect His Subjects and established themselves by a Law in an absolute domination and Tyranny over us The King not more for his owne interest and safety then for the benefit of his Subjects refusing to comply with their desires herein is immediately confined and that in such a manner as it is hard to find a Parallel His Wife Children Friends Servants all the Comforts of life kept from Him a course formerly pronounced barbarous and inhumane even in a Subjects case By-and-by the prodigious Votes forbidding all intercourse of Letters to Him or from Him under the penalty of High-Treason so cutting off all possibility of Accommodation were carryed in the House Last of all to render Him as black as was possible and so utterly to alienate the affections of his people this goodly Declaration first set on foot in the Army and allowed the Agitators to please themselves withall so to divert them from more dangerous designes as the Chesse at the siege of Troy to keep Souldiers from mutiny is thought upon and taken up by the Grandees lick'd into a better forme so expos'd unto publick view that besides their aime
Imputations to make something stick upon His Majesty whether true or false 3. With what Confidence can they accuse his Majesty if he had been guilty of that wherein they themselves lie so grosly open to Exception Quis tulerit Gracchos c. Their whole Practise hath been Prevarication Breach of Oath and Trust both with God and Man Have but a little patience to eye their deportment towards all men they have had to deal with In relation to the King Have they not broke the Oath of Allegiance wherein they have sworne to beare faith and true Allegiance to His Majesties person and to defend the same against all Conspiracies c Have they not broke the Oath too of Supremacy wherein they have professed testified and declared him the onely supream Head and Governour over all Persons in all Causes within these His Dominions both which Oaths they must and doe take before they can legally sit and Vote in that House Have they kept the Protestation better which provided for the Kings honour Power and Safety before their Priviledges And have they kept their owne solemne Covenant either in this or any Branch thereof Nay hath it not been resembled to an Almanack out of date by one of their own Members Martin in his Answer to the Scots Declaration and that without a check How have they deceived and abused this poor Nation in reference to the King when they conjur'd us up to rescue the Kings Person among other things out of the hands of his Evill Counsellours and to fetch him home gloriously to his Greatest and most faithfull Counsell Themselves How well have they answer'd that very great Trust the King reposed in them when to please them if possible he tied up his owne hands from the dissolving this Session of Parliament without their Consent the greatest Breach of Trust that ever the King made if we may believe John Lilburne How have they acquitted their Engagements to the Scots as touching the King Nay have they not disclaimed their owne Declarations as Obligatory and told the Scots since That they were framed published and made use of as Affaires then stood and that they may alter them now and in another place that they are alterable at pieasure although they were Promissory and that upon the most sacred Invocation possible as you may see in the Scots Papers We professe in the sight of Almighty God which is the strongest obligation that any Christian and the most solemne Publick Faith that any State can give Husbands Book of Decl. p. 587. 663. the like That no trouble nor successe should change their resolutions ib. And how they have made good these following Expressions of the Army for now I must charge the Parliament with the Doublings of the Army who rule the roast there Whereas there is a scandalous Information presented to the Houses importing as if His Majesty were kept a Prisoner amongst us and barbarously and uncivilly used We cannot but declare that the same and all other Suggestions of that nature are most false scandalous and absolutely contrary not onely to our declared desires but also to our Principles c. and a while after We clearly professe we doe not see how there can be any Peace to the Kingdome firme and lasting without a due consideration of and provision for the Rights Quiet and Immunity of His Majesty His Royall Family c. Remonst from Ex. and A. Jun. 23. 1647. in another place That untill the settlement His Majesty may find all personall Civility and Respects with all reasonable Freedome in the Letter from Sir Tho Fairfax besides many more which applied to their present practice doe lowdly proclaime their odious Prevarication toward His Majesty In relation to the Kingdome How strangely have they falne short of their Trust Can their Consciences flatter them that they were entrusted by us with the least thought that they should enthrone themselves during life in those Chairs and entaile their Places on their Posterity yet many of them being put to it have intimated thus much nay in the House it hath often dropt from them That it was dangerous to pitch upon a time of Dissolution though within these ten or twenty yeares Some of them have been so ingenuous as to say If they give way Another Parliament must be call ' within these three years and the Kingdome is so totally corrupted that it is Ten to one but That would attaint the Members of This. Many of them who are Fathers have by their Power and Interest already brought in not onely their eldest Children some in their Nonage and Children indeed but two or three as the Lord Say who hath three of his owne Sons in the House of Commons They were entrusted by the people I trow to ease them of their Grievances establish the liberty of their Persons settle the propriety in their Estates yet let me bespeak them in the words of one that hath lost his bloud in their service Mr. Lilburne by name I challenge them to shew one Act they have done for the benefit of the people We feel their little finger heavier then the Loynes of the King with all his Predecessours They have brought us from the Government of one King who was bound up by law to the Tyranny of 5 or 600 of themselves nay every petty Committe-man every insolent Officer whose Will and Lust is their Law so into an Aegyptian Vassalage a condition worse then that of the Peasants of France of the Boores in Flanders of the Slaves in Turkie to use a mans word of their owne side What can we call our owne if one of the Grandees or his Friends mouth waters after it If they Vote to pocket up our Estates to take away our Wives our liberties our very lives who can stand before their Omnipotency Let their Officers and Army's be heard what measure hath bin meted out to them They were promised Golden Mountains The Parliament would stand and fall live and die with them Yet when the first Army had set them up and broke the ice for them how dis-honourably was the Lord Generall how unthankfully were the rest laid aside even without their wages which they could never obtaine to this day This last Army had the same doome but they tooke better Courage and knew their owne strength The Scots however stroakt with the name of Brethren to this day were serv'd with the self-same sauce and put to retreat faster then was for their Ease from Newarke toward their own Confines with a great Body of Horse at their heels The City unto whose bloud and treasure they owe their beeing and whatever they have rings again of their breach of Trust and faith with them Instead of Signall marks of the Enlargement of their Priviledges Recompences for all their offices of love Their Works are demolished The Tower is wrested from their hands Themselves besieged in a manner A Garrison threatned to be put upon them their armes to be taken
banishment of her Priests 4. The Man was of so weak Parts and of so loose a life that his Company might have been borne withall the better to serve as a Disswasive from his Religion as the Lacedemonians used by the apish and uncouth behaviour of Drunkards to possesse their young Children with a perfect hatred of that vice 5. Assoon as it was discovered distastfull or of danger he had his Mittimus 6. That of the Blanks left with Windehank and of his Letters and Flight Answered 1. Whosoever knows the Custome of the Court knows it to be no strange matter of Trust with a Secretary of State to be imployed in any sudden emergency when there cannot be recourse unto the King especially when there are generall Instructions left and sometimes the very matter made ready the forme only referred to his discretion Nay further there are some of the House of Commons can testifie how familiar it is for a Secretary of State to entrust the same with his owne Secretaries and how impossible it is to dispatch businesses of haste and necessity without some such remedy I have heard the like is not unusuall with his Excellency the Lord Fairfax and other Great Commanders to give their Servants of Trust leave to subscribe their names for them in matters of common concernment I am sure Col. Mainwayring the Passe-maker which was the best Trade he ever drove in time of greatest danger to the City and affrightment also left his Hand and Seale with many of his Servants to fill up with the names of such Persons as they should think fit Nay but doe not the Houses themselves daily so or more in matters of high concernment by their Power delegated unto the Keepers of the Great Seale Privy-Seale and their ordinary Courts of Justice their Secretary of State and persons officiating in Trust under them 2. If he were a notorious favourer of Papists His Majesty might likely not know so much of him Servants being generally studious to conceale their faults from their Masters 3. If His Majesty did know it yet Places of Trust have been often delegated by Princes to such as have been of a Perswasion contrary to theirs whom they have found Persons capable thereof Even Q. Elizabeth her selfe did send the Viscount Montacute upon an Embassy to Spaine in behalf of the Scots and to justifie the Protestant Religion though he were a Papist as Camden hath it in her Life Now whereas it is added the King would not leave any such with his Parliament 1. The Case is different if it be meant with them for passing of Acts which were not repealable by himself whereas the Secretary was accomptable for his Transactions and his deeds They if not answerable to His Majesties desires capable of reversion by His Majesty 2. There was no need in so short an absence of His Majesty whilest Bills are so long in debate before they come to their Perfection For His Letters we can give no accompt unlesse we knew their purport He might run away justly and in providence which every man oweth to himself He saw the House of Commons begin to ramp upon him and he knew how easie it was for them to find a staffe to beat a dog withall and make a just quarrell when they had an edge against any man That of the Plot to destroy all the Protestants in England Answered But the Plot to cut all the Protestants throats is so brim-full of Malice that it confutes it self 1. It is well known there are not in all above 24000 Papists convicted in all England and Wales allow as many more without that capacity for sure when you shall have deducted the old decrepit Men and all the Women their number will not be much above Now how these Papists should procure Armes embody and no discovery be made of it so as to become considerable and if all in a Body accomplish the Ruine of above a Thousand for One is incomprehensible yea though each one had the hands of Gerion and Briareus and in each hand the Club of Hercules The Protestants had need first be tamer Creatures then these late Broyles have shewed them to be In Ireland where the Papists and Natives are five hundred to one what a tough piece of work have they found it to root them out and now we hope they may drink of the same Cup they provided for Others 2. The King in that case must be look'd on as void of common understanding who would devest himself of the Monarchy over so many Millions of men that he might have it only over 24000 to inhabit this spacious Territory nay and some of them like to come short home 1. That of the Queens pious Designe Answered The Queens pious Designe was knowne to be nothing more then a Contribution by way of Assistance to her Husband against the Scots whom he then look'd upon as his Enemies And to that Expedition divers of themselves divers of the Vpper House afforded their helping hand under the same notion Essex Holland Northumberland Salisbury c. And why was the fault greater in a Wife to assist her Husband then in Subjects their King 2. That of the Qu. Mothers Servant Answered The Q.M. servant for ought we know may lie as wel as swear If it be the Man we guesse at he is of little credit even among his own Nation Nay the Ministers and Protestants of their Churches here though the man pretend to be under the notion of a Convert and a Protestant now though formerly a Papist give him but a base report And we cannot think it is for nothing that he hath been bolsterd up in the murther of his own Wife under the pretence of Physick in the oppression of her Children which she had by a former Husband and in the prosecution of a worthy Gentleman her Brother 3. That of the suggestion to the Arch-bishop Answered The suggestion to the Arch-Bishop was by one Habernfield a Bohemian from a Priest in Rome first given to Sir William Boswell in Holland and so sent over in which the principall persons to be made away were the King and the Arch-Bishop for their being so much against the Romish Religion and purposes But this Circumstance is wisely enough conceald by these Accusers Can any reasonable man let his belief so run riot as to be perswaded the King should drive on a Plot apparently to his own destruction How blind will malice make whither will it not transport Of the Irish Rebels words we shal speak in a more proper place 4. That of the Armes in Papists houses Answered The Armes and Ammunition in Papists houses were a Bow and Arrows with one brown Bill This cals to our mind the Training under ground the blowing up of the Thames c. Is it not Impudence even to a Prodigie to think now the Scales are fallen from our eyes thus to mock and befool us still 5. That of the Ammunition and Preparations about White-Hall
the establishment of this Parliament by a Law during their owne Arbitrement 1. The Charge from the dis-use of Parliament for twelve years Answered To the first particular I answer 1. By way of Concession that Parliaments were under long dis-use But 2. that it might be out of some fore-sight and sense of this tumultuous Spirit in its secret workings of which the King might think by abstinence and diet to correct their Luxuriancy It argues no hate to a Parliament to desire it might contain it self in the bounds of its ancient moderation and so a fair correspondence be maintained between the Crowne and the People And this Judge Hutton in his Argument could not chuse but touch upon if you please to peruse him 3. Notwithstanding this reason for it His Majesty had made an acknowledgement hereof as of an Errour engaging himself to redresse it for the future Nay 4. did apply himself to that particular way which themselves proposed a Trienniall Parliament 5. Further yet when that gave not satisfaction by a law confirmed this present Parliament to the length of their own desires 2.3 That for Breaking up of Parliaments and forbidding all Speech thereof Answered 1. Herein His Majesty did no more then all his Predecessors Look upward and you will find it practised If it were against the words of a law yet usage makes the law of the Kingdome and supersedes the Letter Suppose it an Errour why should it be a Charge upon the King and never objected unto His Father Qu. Elizabeth Qu. Mary K. Edward K. Henry 8. and so upward 2. The King did never Dissolve any but upon their own distempers and for mutinous deportment and then it was providence to cure an evill in the beginning and crush a serpent in the shell 3. This very House of Commons doth at this time entertaine within their walls one Instrument of the dissolution of the last before this I mean Sir Henry Vane whose false suggestions were the occasion of the Kings Breaking it up If you have not heard the story then take here the plain truth of it The Parliament was willing to give the King a summe in consideration of Ship-money and an offer was made so the King would relinquish his title thereunto of six Subsidies His Majesty was willing to comply and in order thereunto gave Sir Hen. Vane and others a command to signifie so much unto the House But Sir Henry contrary to the directions demands and insists on Twelve Whereupon the House is put into some distemper which Sir Henry represents unto His Majesty with the utmost Aggravation and some Addition too whereupon His Majesty Dissolves it Searching of Pockets and afterwards Imprisoning Answered To this we give this accompt 1. That it was no Breach of Priviledge when the Parliament was dissolv'd The Elements are but of ordinary use extra rationem Sacramenti by that time they were reduced to their proper sphear and why may not the King upon reasons of State send to search the Pockets and Closets of any private man when he found the correspondence between his Kingdom and himself to be shaken who could blame him to search the cause of it to the bottome that he might prevent it for the future Though the King did imprison them it was in an Honourable way he made them such an Allowance that Master Long hath professed he spent the King 1500l there after which rate perhaps it might be of a Surfet that those died who are objected 3. Themselves never made dainty of it to imprison their own Members during their Session without any cause exprest in their Warrants and without any Allowance for their subsistance What was Commissary General Coply imprison'd for these six months Some say for nothing but telling what a clock it was at a Committee Others have been for as long a time and for as little reason The Kings charging of the 5 Members answered and retorted 1. This is true indeed that the King did charge or impeach so many of the House but then 2. His Majesty had some reason sure Whosoever reads the Articles and compares the Consequences will find them high enough and be convinced of their truth 3. If you consider the Kings proceedings thereupon his Retractation of his own way and error in the processe if it justled with any unknown Priviledge his desire of their direction and when nothing else would give Content his utter with-drawing of the Charge and if you reflect withall upon what other Princes have done what the Law gives out to wit There is no Protection for Treason you cannot chuse but admire his lenity 4. This is no more then they have suffered if not encouraged the Army their own Servants to doe unto double that number of their Houses and some of the same Members that had been charged by the King and this too upon lesse ground if any at all 5. I could tell them of Doct. Parry a Member of that House in Q. Elizab. time who was not onely charged but taken thence condemned at the Kings-bench for Treason against the Queens Person drawn and hanged before Westminster-Hall-gate at the very time the Members repaired to the House I could tell them of more then this but I passe it over The Kings going to the House answered and retorted 1. Though His Majesty went unto the House there was no assault made or intended by him as far as can appear without their Comment It had been a desperate attempt with so few to set upon so many and those backt by so great a power and had seru'd themselves so far into the affections of the City If any wild expression fell from the mouth of one or two of his retinue why were they not seized on and questioned 2. This hath been so often acknowledged for an Errour by him yet still objected by them that me-thinks they might blush at this mention of it 3. What did he doe therein which themselves had not been guilty of before it and much out-done since We remember the robustious Petition of the Porters and we know at what rates some of them were hired by what devices others were cheated thereinto it being told them it was a Petition that Water-men should be prohibited to carry Burdens The Poasting of Names exposing the Members of different judgment to the fury of the madding Multitude was a kind of Force sure So were the Shoals of Citizens who came upon their Invitation and encouragement to cry for Justice If those were not we are certaine the Reformado's were for many of them smelt ill then and Horrour was seen in the faces of most which the Army taxeth some Members withall And the Petitions Remonstrances Declarations Advance of this Army with their Interposition since are a violence beyond dispute Bringing the Army to London answered and retorted 1. None of those Examinations which we have read over all of them doe hold out clearly that the King did intend to bring them up to London
those that died in the quarrell against him were his Subjects He was the poorer for the very Plunder and destruction that fell upon his Enemies He had three Crownes at stake His eares and eyes were continually filled with the desolations of his Country the spoile of the people In his owne Person he was stript of all the usuall Comforts of his life and for most part hunted as a Partridge upon the Mountaines and in continuall danger Whereas our Masters at Westminster continually gain'd by that which other men lost by How else were it possible that they and so many of their servants and Officers should start up into such Estates from the very dunghill or a lost condition They were at little hazard some of them being of an Estate twice or thrice sold or morgag'd for more then the worth others worth nothing They made sport with the Relations of Burnings and Massacres and heard them as some Romance when themselves sate voting securely at Westminster snorting upon their downe-beds feeding upon the delicacies of the Kingdome dividing the spoiles of it among themselves even at least 300000. l. professedly to say nothing now of Clandestine wayes cleanly Cheates Offices c. Besides they were well acquainted with that Maxime of Alexander of Parma That when Subjects draw their swords against their Prince they must fling away the scabbard 2. If you revise the pretended Petitions you will find they were for the most part as great Reproaches as ever otherwise were cast upon the King such as must needs beget a Prejudice and carry their Answer in their very Fore-heads 3. They were not Petitions for Peace but rather Admonitions to the King to submit to devest himself of his strength and power to protect his people for to sacrifice his friends to cast himselfe upon their Mercy Who could blame either them for making such Petitions or the King for denying them 4. If you know the Ends and Designes they drove therein so well as we who sate neere the Chaire and sometimes convers'd with the Councell you would rest fully satisfied that they were rather to get wind of the King to appease the people and winne their Affections by a seeming dissembled Affection and pursuit of what they so much gasped after when God knowes they never harbour'd the least expectation or desire of Condescension from the King and that they made no bones to confesse among their Confidents 5. It is false and impudent averment to pretend that any Petitions though of this nature upon such grounds were rejected by the King or indeed had not a faire answer given and such a one as in our judgement might have satisfied reasonable men His Majesties not admitting Propositions Answered and retorted Now to clear His Majesty from that Aspersion of not admitting Propositions or making any fit for them to receive 1. We desire the Reader to take notice of the severall offers the King hath made 1. Before the Warre was throughly kindled Jan. 23. 1641. Booke of Declarations wherein he did upon the matter send them a Blanke 2. Before much blood was drawn His Messages from Nottingham which you may see in the same Booke 3. His Propositions at severall Treaties at Colebroke Oxford Vxbridge which last was ingenuously and without a false Glosse exposed to the world yet never to this day had any answer In most of which never King made appearance of more gracious Condescension to a disadvantagious Composure had it been possible Whereas they never yet made any but such as expected from him 1. To sacrifice his Honour 2. To violate his Conscience 3. To give his fastest friends for a victime unto the fury of their Enemies 2. It is too evident a truth that whatsoever they pretended of an Inclination to a Composure or making up the Breach it was but to baffle and gull the people Ad populum phaleras They were resolved to hold the sword naked and to throw away the scabbard How otherwise could they have proved such deafe Adders to the many gracious Messages from His Majesty besides the Propositions mentioned before How could they cast behind their backs so many sweet courting Letters dispatch'd one upon another What Colour can they pretend for their waving of the French and Hollanders interposure when they made friendly offers of Mediation Nations the one to whom formerly the King of this Land with his disobedient Barons made reference of their differences the other of our owne Profession maintaining that Discipline of the Church which these men doat upon as their great Diana and having lately screw'd themselves into the Independency of a Free state both of them indifferent to our quarrell and if any Biasse hung upon the latter it must be toward the Parliaments party 3. Besides it is not quite out of our Memory in this City That when the generality of the better and wiser Citizens were assembled at Guild-hall in a peaceable way to draw up a Petition for Peace there were twenty or thirty men with drawn swords of which Mainwayring's son was one sent in amongst them to assault and provoke them to a defence of themselves and to reciprocall violence so that they might have some pretence to charge them with Mutiny and Riot as was done by a scandalous and lying paper afterward put forth by their Authority and that by killing some as one was served by Harvies owne hand and imprisoning others all such hopes or least Motions that way might be extinguished Nor have we forgotten how divers Buckingham-shire people being assembled to like purpose about the time of Vxbridge Treaty were dispersed by their Horse and some made Prisoners We passe by many but these are enough to demonstrate who were the most resolved against any peaceable Conclusion 4. The Circumstances of their Propositions clearly prove that they were in a great fear lest the King should condescend though they were never so unreasonable What else should be the meaning of their limiting His Majesty to six to ten to twenty dayes but for fear lest any further time and consideration should make him grant them And what of their requiring certaine numbers to be left to their mercy without any name but by that means to amuse His Majesty and keep him in suspence which of his friends should be mark'd out for slaughter And since the Armies march through London What of their leaving all such out of their Votes for Indempnity as had any hand in that Message of the King of May 12. last wherein he offered all that possibly could be offered or in approbation of it Observe how they confesse in their last Declaration for no more Addresses to the King that their Propositions sent to Newcastle were the same in effect with those at Vxbridge and those at Hampton-Court with those at Newcastle And yet how much time was spent between their sending of them Brainceford busines Answered and retorted Now whereas it is pretended the King took advantage to assault their Quarters