the north, forced the King to enter upon a new consideration of putting some person of command in the head of his army; and thereupon the earl of Strafford, who was not yet freed from his sickness, nor long after from the dregs of it, was constituted by commission from the earl of Northumberland lieutenant-general of the whole forces (for I do not believe that employment was originally intended to him, but only the command of the army in Ireland, to which two thousand foot and five hundred horse were to be added out of England); but before he could arrive with the army, that infamous irreparable rout' [&c. as in § 89.]

95. The words 'was never known' are substituted by a secretary's hand for I have never been informed.'

98. After the words 'countenance of that whole party,' the words for which I could never find the least prudential motive' are struck out.

108. This section originally began thus:-"These commissioners being met at Rippon by men of an inferior quality, (for as, I remember, there was only the lord Lowden of the nobility) Mr. Henderson and some of the clergy and a citizen or two being part, a treaty was with great formality entered into, and after some few days, in which a cessation was made, and five and thirty (altered to fifty) thousand pounds a month agreed upon to be paid to the Scots for the support of their army in the quarters wherein they then were, the treaty was adjourned to London, and a safe conduct granted to the Scotch commissioners to repair thither, without which they could never have been able to have gone through their great work. This being done, and as much more agreed upon as was necessary till their next meeting, the lords return to York, and his majesty towards London, all preparations being for the Parliament, which was to commence so speedily.'

119. And it is very probable': orig., And I am persuaded.' I say it is probable': orig., I say I am persuaded.'

123. 'insomuch as many': orig., 'insomuch as I myself spake with many.' 'then did (or ever after)': orig., 'then did (and I verily believe yet do not).'

125. nor was there gracious acceptance': orig., for I yet never heard of any proposition made by them at the first or second treaty at Rippon which was not for the matter fully consented to: whereas if their lordships had been fully advertised of the whole truth, of the ground and motives of sending that book, and of the care and circumspection in the forming and commending it to them; that the canons were but the injunctions and articles (that is, faithfully for the matter taken out of them) of their own Assembly's; that the High Commission was settled by Act of

Parliament; that all their petitions and addresses had found most gracious acceptance —.'

127. The following lines are struck out after the words, 'name of their nation,' the second book having originally ended here. '-there needs no observation how prejudicial this last oversight proved in many particulars. And this shall suffice for the introduction to this History, which is to begin from the beginning of the Parliament which was now at hand.'

BOOK III.

20. After the words 'whom they were to protect' the following lines are struck out:-'and else, though they made great show, and had great use of that appearance, of great fury against the Papist[s], they did intend really to do no public act of disfavour to them (as from that time to this the chief agents of them kept strict correspondence with some priests about London,) and so would not pursue the enquiry too strictly what had been done in their behalf; or it may be, they thought it more suitable to their dignity to proceed rigorously upon misdemeanours which were not before too well understood, and by rules of their own making, than upon known crimes, and by ordinary courses, in which other men might be as wise as themselves.'

47. 'The damage was not to be expressed, and the ruin': orig., 'The damage, (that is too light a word) the ruin.'

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104. amongst them the lord Littleton': orig., amongst others one who is since dead.'

107. 'extrajudicial determination': orig., 'extraordinary deter

mination.'

225. 'a free communication': orig., ‘an idle and extravagant communication.'

BOOK IV.

130. After the words 'brought upon them,' the following lines are struck out:-'And eleven of them (relying upon his great judgment and experience in the course and forms of Parliament) signed a parchment he sent to them, which he delivered on Thursday the thirtieth of December to the King as a protestation of the bishops against the freedom of the Parliament; the proceedings upon it being so extraordinary, and the Church receiving so great a blow by an act that posterity, without well weighing all circumstances and humours, will hardly censure, it will not be amiss to set down the instrument itself in terms, which was this.' [Then follows the protest.]

141. The following section is struck out, for the substitution of the parallel passage from the Life.

"The King no sooner received this protestation from the hands of the archbishop at Whitehall than (conceiving he had very well considered of the consequence of it) he delivered it to a lord presently, to be presented and entered into the House; which was no sooner done than those lords who were the most mortal and implacable enemies expressed great joy, and said 'this was digitus Dei,' and that God had brought that about by the bishops themselves which all their skill could not compass; and immediately they sent to the Commons for a conference upon a matter of very great concernment and importance to the peace of the kingdom, at which conference they only read the instrument, said it was that morning presented to the King, and by his majesty sent to the House, and so delivered it to the Commons to be considered of, without delivering any opinion at all, which they knew they needed not to do. It was no sooner read in the House of Commons than several speeches were made of their transcendent presumption, which they could never have been guilty of except they had been sure of good seconds; that without doubt there was a design to dissolve the Parliament, of which this protestation against the freedom of it, and that all acts done in their absence were null, as if the bishops were so essential a part of a Parliament that it could not consist without them, was but a forerunner; that the dissolution of this Parliament would inevitably prove the destruction of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland; and therefore they resolved to accuse them of high treason. Which was done accordingly the same day, and thereupon the twelve bishops sent for to the House of Peers, and presently committed to the Tower of London, the tumults having left the Houses that morning, as soon as they heard of the more powerful engine to compass their ends, the protestation.'

144. ‘that they were committed to prison than that they durst not then sit in the House': orig., 'that they cannot sit in that House now than that they durst not then.'

145. 'insomuch as in the whole debate in the House of Commons': orig., 'insomuch as in the four hours' debate in the House of Commons which would prove the most infallible way of destroying them

In 237, 238, and 239 the lines relating to the Tower of London are struck out.

INDEX.

The Roman numerals refer to the books, the Arabic figures to the
sections.