[225] Baillie i. 287. ‘There was some fear for those of the new way, who are for the independent congregations; but after much conference we hope they will joyne to overthrow episcopacie, erect presbyterian government and assemblies, and in any difference they have to be silent upon hope either of satisfaction, when we gett more leasure, or of toleration on their good and peaceable behaviour.’ (Dec. 28.)
[226] In Verney’s Notes of Proceeding in the Long Parliament.
[227] Rushworth iii. 1. 206.
[228] The articles in order, with minutes of the prosecution and defence (evidence, exceptions, interlocutory passages, defence, reply), in Rushworth viii, ‘Trial of the Earl of Strafford.’ He was clerk of the House: ‘I had,’ says he, ‘taken in characters all that was said for him, as what his accusers said against him.’
[229] ‘You have an army in Ireland you may employ here to reduce that kingdom.’ Protocol of Council. Lord Digby says ‘the difference of one letter—here for there, or that for this—quite alters the case, the latter also being the more probable, since it is confessed that the debate then was concerning a war with Scotland.’ Rushworth iv. 226.
[230] State Trials iii. 1461.
[231] D’Ewes’ Journal, in Sanford’s Illustrations 337. There is a facsimile in vol. i. of Forster’s Essays. But it must be remarked that this was not the last stage.
[232] Lord Digby’s Speech, in Rushworth iv. 225.
[233] Mr. St. John’s Argument, in the State Trials and in Nalson ii. 186.