THE HISTORY OF THE REBELLION AND CIVIL WARS IN ENGLAND, TO WHICH IS ADDED AN HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE AFFAIRS OF IRELAND, BY EDWARD EARL OF CLARENDON. A NEW EDITION, EXHIBITING A FAITHFUL COLLATION OF THE ORIGINAL MS., ALSO THE UNPUBLISHED NOTES OF BISHOP WARBURTON. VOL. IV. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS. MDCCCXXVI. THE HISTORY OF THE REBELLION, BY EDWARD EARL OF CLARENDON. IN EIGHT VOLUMES. Κτῆμα ἐς ἀεί. ΤHUCYD. Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. CICERO. THE HISTORY OF THE REBELLION, &c. BOOK VII. a Mic. iii. 11. The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us. MIC. vii. 4. The best of them is as a brier; the most upright is sharper than a thorn-hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.a WHEN the treaty was first consented to by the BOOK VII. 1643. The sum mands and two houses, they ordered that it should be upon the first proposition made by his majesty, and the first proposition made by themselves, and that those of the deshould be first concluded on, before they proceeded conces to treat upon any of the other propositions. So that both sides the committee, in the first place, applied themselves upon the a Mic. iii. 11. The heads-perplexity.] Not in MS. sions of |