The history of the Puritans, or, Protestant . , indulgetheir Eafe, confult their Grandeur, and lord it overtheir Brethren. Thefe were the popular Complaints againft 54* ^HISTORY Vol. II. King againft them, which made the Citizens rejoice at theirCharles I. Downfal, and attend the paffing of the Bill with Bon-yj^l^j fires and Illuminations. But if all thefe Things had^^ not concurred in a nice and critical State of Affairs,the Attempts of the Houfe of Commons wouldhave been in vain ; neither the King nor the Houfeof Peers being heartily willing to deprive them ofRufhw. their
The history of the Puritans, or, Protestant . , indulgetheir Eafe, confult their Grandeur, and lord it overtheir Brethren. Thefe were the popular Complaints againft 54* ^HISTORY Vol. II. King againft them, which made the Citizens rejoice at theirCharles I. Downfal, and attend the paffing of the Bill with Bon-yj^l^j fires and Illuminations. But if all thefe Things had^^ not concurred in a nice and critical State of Affairs,the Attempts of the Houfe of Commons wouldhave been in vain ; neither the King nor the Houfeof Peers being heartily willing to deprive them ofRufhw. their Seats in Parliament. This was one of the laftP«S54« Bills the King paft; and the only Law which heenacted in Prejudice of the Eftablifhed Church. Herehis Majefty made a Stand, and by a Meflage fent toboth Houfes, defired not to be preft to any one fingleAcl: further, till the whole Affair of Church Govern-ment and the Liturgy was fo digefted and fettled byboth Houfes, that he might fee clearly what was fitto be left, as well as what was fit to be taken CHAP* Chap. XI. of the P u r i t a n s, 543 CHAP. XI. From the King* leaving Whitehall to thebeginning of the Civil War. AL L Things now tended to a Rupture between Kingthe King and Parliament •, the Legiflaturecha« *•was divided and the Conftitution broken. While the ^J*^\Royal Family was at Hampton Court, the Officers ^^statfofSoldiers that were quartered about Kingtton, to the the of two Hundred, made fuch Disturbances,that the Militia of the County was raifed to difperfethem. After a few Days the King removed further, Refoluticnsto Wind/or, where a Cabinet Council was held m°fthec<t-prefence of the Queen, in which, befides the Refolu.^0***tionofpafling no more Bills, already mentioned, further agreed, that her Majefty being to ac-company the Princefs her Daughter to Holland, inorder to her Marriage with the Prince of Orange,fhould take with her the Crown Jewels, and pledgethem for
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