[517] Lathbury's History of Convocation, 497.
[518] Clarendon's Hist., 515.
[519] While the Oxford Lords were in London on the embassy, there was, according to the Diurnal, entitled Perfect Occurrences, December 28, a great auditory to hear the chaplain preach and read prayers. After the sermon, it is said, the people were very merry, and a young lady and gentleman went dancing by the river side, and fell in—"good for them to cool their courage in frosty weather."
[520] Whitelocke, 112. The entire propositions for peace may be seen in Parl. Hist., iii. 299.
[521] King's Cabinet opened.—Neal, iii. 250.
[522] Parl. Hist., iii. 339.
[523] Memorials, 127.
[524] All the documents during the attempts at a treaty are given by Dugdale in his Short View of the late Troubles.
A full account is also given by Rushworth, v.
[525] Clarendon's Hist., 521.