[397] Sabran, Aug. 8/18: ‘Les grands d’ici sont si étonnés, qu’ils espèrent plus de succès en leurs propres affaires par l’antipathie qui sera enfin entre les deux parlemens ou leurs deputés, qu’en la conduite de celui-ci, duquel la chambre basse s’attire toute l’autorité et à quoi les autres (les Ecossais) résisteront mieux qu’eux mêmes.’
[398] Collier’s Ecclesiastical History ii. 824.
[399] His epitaph runs: ‘Secuii percussus immortalitatem adiit die x Januarii, 1644.’ Kushworth (v. 380) intended to have treated his trial at as great length as that of Strafford. As this was not done, we have to depend mainly on Laud’s own detailed narrative of his examination.
[400] Baillie’s Letters, which here give generally authentic information.
[401] Baillie: ‘One party purposing by the preface to turn the directorie a strait liturgie, the other to make it so loose and free that it should serve for little use—God helped us to get both rocks eschewed.’ (ii. 242.)
[402] Baillie ii. 172, 187, 221: Balfour iii. 197.
[403] Sanderson: ‘Although he offered fair propositions, yet they were mixed with such conditions as might not easily be admitted, and so the King’s offer did but amaze the people into a milder opinion of his proceedings.’
[404] ‘That there never was such a pack of knaves and villains as they who now govern in the parliament.’ Clarendon bk. viii. (iv. 595).
[405] ‘The Royal power concerning the militia and to make peace and war, we cannot admit, that it is otherwise exercised than by authority from His Majesty and both houses of Parliament.’
[406] The whole proceeding of the Treaty of Uxbridge. Paper cxxx. cxxxvi. in Rushworth v. 839, 841.