[462] Hanbury's Memorials, ii. 279-281.
[463] Ibid., ii. 409.
In a pamphlet by Katherine Chidley, it is asserted the Separatists supported their own poor.—Hanbury's Memorials, ii. 112.
[464] The whole account of Congregationalism in Yarmouth is drawn up from the records of the Corporation, and of the Independent Church there.
[465] See Oxoniana, iv. 188; and copy of the woodcut in Knight's Old England.
The Parliamentarians made a great mistake in not planting a garrison at Oxford, as they might have easily done when the war broke out.—See Whitelocke's Memorials, 63. The shrewd lawyer was not destitute of military insight, and justly blames Lord Say, who was opposed to the Parliament's taking possession of the city, because of the "improbability, in his opinion, that the King would settle there."
[466] Macaulay's Hist., iii. 18.
[467] Life of Chillingworth, by P. Des Maizeaux, 277.
[468] Rushworth, v. 354.
[469] A year afterwards, we find the following statement in Perfect Occurrences (June 17, 1644), where after describing the cruel spoliation of Abingdon and Worcester by fire by the Cavaliers, the news-writer thus continues:—"I could here insert the platform of all their projects, had I room to bring it in, set forth in a picture, intended to be sent to Seville, in Spain, and to be hanged in the great cathedral there, this day brought before the Parliament, where the Queen directs the King to present his sceptre to the Pope, and all the Cavaliers with him, and popish leaders with her, rejoicing to see it, he having a joyant, [this means perhaps, joyan, a jewel] to resemble his Majesty and she the Virgin Mary, and this motto upon the cases: 'Para Sancta Aña de Sevilla.' This picture is to be hung up for public view, and is enough to convince the strongest malignant in England."