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Attempt to acquire the command of the militia 104 Essex obliges the king to raise the siege...
........ 114
The king evades their demand................ 104 Baule of Newbury (Sept. 20)....
114
His firm reply to their farther importunities.... 105 Esser's horse broken by the king's, but no decisive
They vote, ihat those who advised his majesty's advantage gained....
answer are enemies to the state....
105 Death and character of lord Falkland ......... 114
He removes with his two sons to York, the queen Both armies retire into winter quarters........ 115
having already taken refuge in Holland...... 105 Operations in the northern counties......
....... 115
Loyalty of the northern counties, and of the great Success there various .
115
body of the nobility and gentry all over Eng: SOLEMN LEAGUE AND COVENANT between the Eng.
land
105 lish and Scottish parliaments
115
The commons frame an ordinance, in which, by Subscribed by the lords and commons, and by an
the sole authority of the two houses of parlia- assembly of divines at Westminster
.... 115
ment, the lieutenants of counties are named, and The Scots enter England with an army of twenty
invested with the command of the whole military thousand men
116
force--of all the guards, garrisons, and forts in the Retrospective view of the affairs of Ireland... 116
kingdom ....
..... 106 The king orders the lord-lieutenant to conclude a
The king issues proclamations against this usurpa- truce with the Catholics, and transport over to
tion..
106 England part of the Protestant army........ 116
A variety of memorials, declarations, and remon 1644 That army routed at Namptwich, and dis-
strances published by both parties........... 106 persed by the parliamentary forces, under sir
The parliament openly enlisis troops, and confers Thomas Fairfax, in consequence of the swelling
the chief command of its army on the earl of of the river Wever ......
....... 117
Essex ...
106 Progress of the Scots in the north of England., 117
Charles prepares himself for defence, and rouses Being joined by lord Fairfax, they invest York.. 117
his adherents to arms ....
...... 106 Battle of Marston-moor ...
...... 117
The commons send him conditions on which they The royal army, under prince Rupert and sir Charles
will come to an agreement ................. 107 Lucas, defeated with great slaughter by the par-
Their demands, contained in nineteen propositions, liamentary forces, commanded by lord Fairfax
amount to a total abolition of royal authority 107 and Oliver Cromwell, and the Scois, conducted by
Abstract of those propositions
107 the earl of Leven....
The king's animaied speech on rejecting them 107 | York surrenders to the army of the parliament, and
He collects his forces, and erects the royal standard Newcastle is taken by the Scots .
at Nottingham...
107 | The king gains an advantage over the parliamentary
State of parties at the beginning of the grand re- forces, under Waller, at Cropredy-bridge .... 118
bellion ...
107 He pursues the earl of Essex into Cornwall, and
obliges the infantry, abandoned by that general,
to surrender their armis, artillery, and bag-
LETTER VI.
gage
....... 118
The king attacked and defeated by the generals of
Great Britain and Ireland, from the Commencement the parliament near Deddington castle ...... 119
of the Civil War to the Battle of Naseby, in Having formed a junction with prince Rupert, he
1645.
again offers them battle, and, on their declining it,
puts his army into winter quarters..... 119
Advantages on the side of the parliament..... 108 Disputes between the English presbyterians and
The foundation of the king's hope of overbalancing independents.
119
those....
108 The distinction between those two sects traced 119
His declaration to his army..
109 The heads of the independents
120
It is received with the warmest expressions of ap. The heads of the presbyterians....
120
probation...
109 Their mutual accusations
Battle of Edgehill (Oct. 23).. ................ 109 The independents attempt to acquire the command
Disposition of the two armies
109 of the sword
120
Viciory left doubtful, after various turns of for. Hypocritical artifices which they employ for that
tune
110
purpose.....
120
wseex retreats to London, and the king advances to The Self-denying Ordinance
121
Brentford
110 In consequence of that ordinance, the earl of Essex,
Ineffectual negotiations during the winter...... 110 sir William Waller, and the earl of Manchester
Various events of the war....
110 resign their commands; and the whole military
1613 The parliamentary forces, under the earl of authority, under the parliament, devolves upon
Essex and sir William Waller, make an unsuc- sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, who
cessful attempt upon Oxford, at that time the change the formation of the army
121
residence of the king
Il Characters of those two generals
121
A detachment of their main body routed by prince 1645 Trial and execution of archbishop Laud.. 122
Rupert, on Calsgrave field, where the famous Negotiations at Uxbridge....
122
John Hambden is morially wounded ........ 111 The commissioners of the king and parliament
The army of the parliament, under the earl of separate without making any progress in the pur-
Stamford, defeated by the Cornish royalists, near posed treaty of peace
122
Stratton....
111 Account of Janies Graham, marquis of Mont-
Bloody but indecisive battle of Lansdown-bill.. Jll
122
The parliamentary forces, under Waller, totally His success against the covenanters in Scot-
rouied on Roundway down..
12 land
123
The queen returns from Holland, with a supply of Decline of the king's affairs in England, and its
ammunition and artillery....
112
causes
Prince Rupert undertakes ihe siege of Bristol., 112 The elevating influence of enthusiasm upon the
He makes himself master of that city.
112
parliamentary army
123
The royal army next invests Gloucester ....... 113 Licentiousness of the royalists..
123
The king, in the height of his prosperity, publishes The king relieves Chester and takes Leices-
a manifesto, expressive of his earnest desire of ter...
124
peace ...
113 Battle of Naseby
124
Plan, for the same purpose, privately concerted by Gallant behavigur of the king
124
Waller, Tomkins, and Chaloner .... 113 1645 He is obliged to quit the field, after an obsti
Discovered, and Tomkins and Chaloner nate engagement, and his baggage and artillery
cuted ..........
....... 113
fall into the hands of the enemy.
124
Measures taken for the relief of Gloucester.... 114 Near five thousand of the royalists made pri-
Gallant defence of Massey, the governor ...... 114 soners...
194