[521] Arguments against all accommodation and treatys between the city of London and the engaged Grandees; April 4, 1648. The honest citizen or faithfull counsellor of the city of London; May 3, 1648.
[522] Grignan ascribes the initiative to the Presbyterians.
[523] Journals of Commons, April 28.
[524] A Mrs. Whorwood also appears in the King’s letters to Colonel Titus, in Hillier’s narrative of the attempted escapes from Carisbrook Castle, Nos. xi. xii.
[525] Letters of Cromwell’s of May 15 and July 11, in Rushworth 1118; Carlyle i. 277; Forster, Statesmen vi. 238.
[526] Memoirs of Mrs. Hutchinson, ii. 146.
[527] Burnet, Hamiltons 353. ‘If they were prosperous in England it would not be great work to master any opposition in Scotland.’
[528] Baillie to Spang, August 23, 1648 (iii. 51).
[529] What Turner says, that Langdale knew nothing of Cromwell’s presence in the army, cannot be reconciled with the narrative in Carte i. 161. Burnet copies from Turner.
[530] Mazarin, who believed in fortune, wrote to Grignan on September 11, ‘L’on voit bien que le malheur du roi de la Grande Bretagne est encore en force, estant bien extraordinaire que 8 m. h. en defassent 22 m. à plate cousture, si bien qu’on peut dire avec raison, qu’on n’a vu guère de mauvaise fortune s’opiniâtrer si fortement contre un prince que fait celle du roy contre lui.’