[632] Baillie's Letters and Journals, ii. 512, Appendix. Gillespie says, March 30th, 1647:—"In sum, the Independent party is for the present sunk under water in the Parliament, and run down."
[633] Parl. Hist., iii. 475.
[634] Journals.
[635] Neal, iii. 365. The following is an extract from the Petition:—"That an ordinance be made for the exemplary punishment of heretics and schismatics, and that all godly and orthodox ministers may have a competent maintenance, many pulpits being vacant of a settled minister for want of it; and here (say they) we would lay the stress of our desires, and the urgency of our affections." They complain further of the "undue practices of Country Committees, of the threatening power of the army, and of some breaches in the Constitution, all of which they desire may be redressed, and that his Majesty's royal person and authority may be preserved and defended, together with the liberties of the kingdom, according to the Covenant."
[636] Neal, iii. 388.
[637] See full account, with authorities, in Baker's Northamptonshire, i. 201.
[638] "The kingdom shall have peace and truth, the Churches uniformity and concord, almost quite lost, Ireland hopes of speedy reduction, sectaries and blasphemers shall be bridled if not extirpated, and church government with the religion established."—Welcome of the King to Holmby (Holdenby).
[639] State Papers, Dom., Chas. I. 1647. The latter is without date.
[640] History of Rebellion, 610.
[641] The funeral of the Earl of Essex, on the 22nd of October, 1646, presented a grand display of military pomp. The Speaker, many Aldermen of the City, and Assembly of Divines also followed in the procession to the grave. "When they came to the Abbey Church, the effigy of the Earl was carried in and laid upon the standing hearse, where it was to remain during the pleasure of the House, or as many days as intervened between his death and burial. The effigy was roughly handled one night. The Abbey being broken into, the head of the image was broken, the buff coat was slit, the scarlet breeches were cut, the boots were slashed, the bands were torn, and the sword broken."—See Perfect Relation of the Funeral.