[361] Challoner’s words just before his execution leave no doubt of this purpose: ‘That if we could make a moderate party here in London, to stand betwixt and in the gap to unite the King and the Parliament, it would be a very acceptable work.’ Waller says: ‘For the propositions of letting in part of the King’s army, or offering violence to the members of this house, I ever disallowed or utterly rejected them.’ Parl. Hist. xii. 322.
[362] Agostino, 24 Giul.: ‘Non havea prodotto buon effetto la morte dei primi nel universal del popolo.’
[363] Journal of Commons, June 6, 1643.
[364] ‘Both armies may be drawn near the one to the other, that if peace is not concluded, it may be ended with the sword.’ Brixhill, July 9, 1643, in Rushworth vi.
[365] ‘On the first division the Yeas were 94, the Noes 68; on the second the Yeas were 70, the Noes 68.’ Journals iii. 167.
[366] D’Ewes, in Sanford 576.
[367] Journal of the Siege of Gloucester, in Warburton ii. 281.
[368] Detailed narrative from the Parliamentary side, in May’s Hist. of the Long Parliament 347: the report in Rushworth v. 293 is based on this: Clarendon’s account agrees with it on the whole very well. Agostini: ‘Fra le dispute resta inviluppata la vittoria che è stata solennizata con fuochi in Oxford, e con ringraziamento nelle chiese qui.’
[369] Instructions to Colonel Cochran. Harleian Misc. vii. 532.