[316] Cp. Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria 117.
[317] The Life of Prince Rupert, probably by his secretary, in Warburton’s Memoirs of Prince Rupert and the Cavaliers i. 460. ‘It was not found proper at that time to make any countenance of a war, matters not being as yet come to that height as to despair of an accommodation.’
[318] This expectation is loudly expressed in the pamphlet, Joyful Tidings to all True Christians, Jan. 1642. According to it the King had declared ‘that hereafter he would altogether join with them.’ (the Parliament).
[319] ‘That the powers granted shall continue until it shall be otherwise ordered or declared by both houses of Parliament.’ Ordinance of both houses.
[320] D’Ewes characterises the debate as ‘full of sadness and evil augury.’ Sanford 482.
[321] Message from Huntingdon. ‘His Majesty being resolved to observe the laws himself, and to require obedience to all them from all his subjects.’ Journals 481.
[322] In the Lords with the addition ‘notwithstanding anything expressed in this message.’
[323] Letters of John Byron in State Paper Office, Jan 22. ‘Though I carry ever so fairly, they are resolved to pick quarrels with me.’
[324] ‘I cannot promise to keep that place long, in the condition I am in, yet I will sell both it and my life at as dear a rate as I can.’ A worthy ancestor of the great poet!
[325] The younger Hotham had written, ‘Fallback, fall edge, he would put it to the hazard.’ Sanford 475.