THE HISTORY OF THE REBELLION AND CIVIL WARS IN ENGLAND, TOGETHER WITH AN HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE AFFAIRS OF IRELAND, BY EDWARD EARL OF CLARENDON, NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME CAREFULLY PRINTED FROM THE TO WHICH ARE SUBJOINED THE NOTES OF BISHOP WARBURTON. IN SEVEN VOLUMES. VOL. V. OXFORD, AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. MDCCCXLIX. A TRUE HISTORICAL NARRATION OF THE REBELLION AND CIVIL WARS BEGUN IN THE YEAR 1641, WITH THE PRECEDENT PASSAGES AND ACTIONS THAT CONTRIBUTED THEREUNTO. BOOK XII. I 2 CHRON. XXVIII. 10. And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: but are there not with you, even with you, sins against the Lord your God? ISAIAH XVII. 12. Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!—xxix. 10. For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. HILST these tragedies were acting in England, and ordinances formed, as hath been said, to make it penal in the highest degree for any man to assume the title, or to acknowledge any man to be king, the king himself remained in a very disconsolate condition at the Hague. Though he knew the desperate state his father was long in, yet the barbarous stroke so surprised him, that he was in all the confusion imaginable, and all about |