Chapter Four

Extract

The Court party finding it not a tyme to disobleige, by reason the army was not disbanded, press for the hastning of the act. The Earle of Bristoll, a Jesuited papist, though engaged for a particcular person, yet manifested his bloody intention in a speech he made, which according to his usuall vaine way of ostentation he caused to be printed; wherein taking occation to vaunt of his imployments he had whilest beyond sea, desires, for the expediting of the act, that they would pass it with the only exception of those who had a hand in the death of the late King, who he moved might be more particularly described in an act that should be afterwards passed to that purpose; wherein for ought I knew he might intend to include not only the judges, and the members of parlament who sate after 1648, with those who petitioned for justice to be done upon him, but all those who made warr against him. The Earle of Lincolne, who had sate in the Howse of Lords during all the tyme of the warr against the King, was as vyolent against us as any, blaming some of the popish Lords for not expressing so much zeale therein as he would have had them done. Neither was the Lord Seymour, who once passed for a patriot, much behinde him.