Edward Earle of CLARENDON Lord High CHANCELLOR of England and Chancellor of the University of Oxford. An. Dm. 1667. HISTORY OF THE REBELLION and CIVIL WARS IN ENGLAND, Begun in the Year 1641. With the precedent Paffages, and Actions, that contri- Written by the Right Honourable EDWARD Earl of CLARENDON, κλῆμα ἐς ἀεί. Thucyd. Ne quid Falfi dicere audeat, ne quid Veri non audeat. Cicero. VOLUME I. PART 2. OXFORD, THE History of the Rebellion, &c. BOOK IV. Ifa. XVII. 12. Wo to the Multitude of many People, which make a Noife like the Noife of the Seas; and to the Rushing of Nations, that make a Rushing like the Rushing of many Waters. W York in hid HEN the King came to Tork, which The King was about the middle of August, he came to found no part of either Army disband- journey toed; for, though Orders had been if-wards Scotfued to that purpose, yet the Money, land. without which it could not be done, was not yet come to hand; and be caufe fo great a Sum could not be prefently procured, as would fatisfy Both, an Act of Parliament had been pafs'd, for the Satisfaction of the Principal Officers of the King's Army, by which they were promised Payment, upon the Pu blick Faith, in November following; till which time they were to refpite it, and be contented that the common Souldiers, and Inferior Officers,fhould be fully Satisfied upon their Disbanding. DURING the time of the King's abode at York, which was not many days, the Earl of Holland, Lord General, made a fuit to him for the making a Baron; which, at that time, might have been worth to him ten thousand pounds. Whether the King apprehended the making an unfit man, who might differve him in the House of Peers; or whether he resolv'd to contain himself from enlarging that number, except upon an extraordinary relation to his Own Service, I know not: but he thought not fit, at that time, to gratify the Earl: by which He took himself to be highly Difobliged (as the Courtiers at that time look'd upon whatsoever was Denied to them, as taken from them) and having receiv'd fome InVol. I. Part 2. formation, T Order of both Houses to Difarm all Papists. formation, from Sr Jacob Ashley and Sr John Coniers, of fome idle paffages in the late tampering with the Army to Petition, which had not been before heard of; affoon as the King was gone towards Scotland (though his Majesty hath fince told me, "That he thought he had left him at parting in very "good humour and devotion to His Service) the Earl wrote a Letter to the Earl of Effex, to be communicated in Parliament, "That he found there had been strange attempts made to Pervert, and Corrupt the Army, but, he doubted not, "he fhould be able to prevent any mischief: the whole Senfe being fo mysterious, that it was no hard matter, after it was read in the Houfes, to perfwade men, that it related to somewhat they had yet never heard; and being dated on the Sixteenth day of August, which must be the time that the King was there, or newly gone thence (for he took his Journey from London on the Tenth) feem'd to reflect on fomewhat his Majefty fhould have attempted. Hereupon their Old Fears are awaken'd, and New ones infused into the People; every man taking the liberty of making what interpretation he pleased of that which no man understood. THE Papilts were the most Popular Common-place, and the Butt against whom all the Arrows were directed; and fo, upon this new Fright, an Order was made by Both Houfes For Difarming all the Papifts in England: upon which, and the like Orders, though feldom any thing was after done, or no matter of moment, yet it ferv'd to keep up the Fears and Apprehenfions in the People, of Dangers and Defigns, and to difincline them from any Reverence or Affection to the Queen, whom they begun every day more implacably to hate, and confequently to difoblige. And, as upon those, and the like light occafions, They grew to a licence of Language, without the leaft refpect of Perfons of how Venerable eftimation foever; fo they departed from all Order or ReguJarity in Debate, or Rules and Measures in Judging; the chief Rulers amongst them, first designing what They thought Fit to be done, and the Rest concluding any thing Lawful, that They thought, in order to the doing and compaffing the fame: in which neither Laws nor Customs could be admitted to fignify any thing against Their sense. I REMEMBER, about that time, in the providing Money for the Disbanding the Armies, upon which they were marvelloufly follicitous, from the time that the King went towards the North, there arose a Question, "Whether Wil"mot, Ashburnham, and Pollard, fhould receive their Pay due "to them upon their feveral Commands, lying under the "Charge of the Plot, for bringing up, and Corrupting the "Army; very many Paffionately alledging, "That Such men "ought |