History of his life and times, from the year 1602 to 1681 / Written by himself in the 66th year of his age.

  • Lilly, William, 1602-1681
Date:
1715
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Credit: History of his life and times, from the year 1602 to 1681 / Written by himself in the 66th year of his age. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    his Order, we had been all cut off ’ere we could “have. got into any Order, Mr. Speaker, and' then he wept; (which he could do tories guoties) J confidering that all the vifible Army you then had, was by this Council in danger to be lott ; refufed thus to indanger the main Strencth , which now moft of all confifted of thofe Horfe under my Command, &c. This his Recrimina- tion was well accepted by the Houfe of Com- ‘mons, who thereupon, and from that Time, thought there was none of the Houfe of Lords, - »-very fit to be intrufted with their foture Armies, but had then Thoughts of making a Commoner their General ; which afterwards they did, and ~veleCted Sir Thomas Fairfax their General, arid Crom- wel] Lieutenant-General ; but it was next Spring _ firft. Upon zgfex his being loft in Cornwall, I heard Serjeant Maynard fay, “ If now the King ** hafte to London we are undone, having no Army ** to refift him. His Majefty had many Misfortunes ever at- tending him, during his Aboad at Oxford; fome by reafon of that great Animofity betwixt Prince _. Rupert and the Lord Digby, each endeavouring to. crofs one another ; but the worft of all was by ‘Treachery of feveral Officers under his Command, and in ‘his Service; for the Parliament” had in continual Pay one Colonel of the King’s Council of War; one Lieutenant.Colonel ; one Captain ; one Enfign ; one or two Serjeants; feveral Cor- ’ porals, who had conftant Pay, and duly paid _ them every Month, according to the Capacity of _~ their Offices and Places, and yet none of thefe _ knew any thing of each other’s being fo, im. -ploy’d. There were feveral Well-wifhers unto ‘the Parliament in Oxford, where each left his Let. _ ter, putting itin at the Hole of a Glafs-window, - as he made Water in the Streer : What was put _--anatthe Window ai ages of thofe Houfes, pe i : 5 the 3