. The life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor of England, and Chancellor of the University of Oxford ... if not betrayed, was unhappily invited to IVin-chefler, with Promile of Forces ready to defend thePlace; which being in no Degree performed, He was the next Day after He came, enclofed in theCaftie of IVinchefter, and compelled to become, all,Officers and Soldiers, Prifoners of War: ThoughHe and fome other of the principal Officers, by theNegligence, or Corruption of their Guard, made their Part II. Edward Earl of Clarendon. their Efcape in the Night, and returned to Ox-ford
. The life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon, Lord High Chancellor of England, and Chancellor of the University of Oxford ... if not betrayed, was unhappily invited to IVin-chefler, with Promile of Forces ready to defend thePlace; which being in no Degree performed, He was the next Day after He came, enclofed in theCaftie of IVinchefter, and compelled to become, all,Officers and Soldiers, Prifoners of War: ThoughHe and fome other of the principal Officers, by theNegligence, or Corruption of their Guard, made their Part II. Edward Earl of Clarendon. their Efcape in the Night, and returned to Ox-ford. This was the State of the Kingdom, of theKing, and of the Parliament, in the Beginning ofthe Year 1643, at tne Time when Mr. Hyde wasmade of the Privy Council, and Chancellor of theExchequer: Which was between the Return of theCommiflioners who had been fent to the King topropofe a Treaty, and the coming of thofe Com-miflioners to Oxford, who were afterwards fent fromthe Parliament to treat with the King; which be-ing about the End of the Year 1642, this Part fhallbe clofed here. M7 Pezenas the i^tbof July, Vol. 1. « The ( H7 ) The LIFE of Edward Earl of Clarendon From his Birth to the Refloration of theRoyal Family in 1660. PART the THIRD. IT was about the Beginning of March (whichby that Account was about the End of the Year1642, and about the Beginning of the Year1643) that the Commiffioners of the Parliamentcame to Oxford, to treat with his Majefty; and werereceived gracioufly by him ; and by his Order lodg-ed conveniently and well accommodated in all Re-ipe&s. The Parliament had bound up their Commif-fioners to the ftridteft Letter of their Propofitions;nor did their Inltruclions at this Time (which Theyprefented to the King) admit the leaft Latitude tothem to interpret a Word or Expreflion, that ad-mitted a doubtful Interpretation. Infomuch as theKing told them, that He was forry that They had no more Truft repofed to them 5 and that the Parliament might as well
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