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The earl of Northumberland , fond of his rank c H aand dignity, regarded with horror a scheme, LVI1 'which , if it took place, would confound himselfand his family with the lowest in the kingdom.

The earls of Warwic , and Denbigh, Sir PhilipStapleton, Sir William Waller, Hollis, Massey,Whitlocke, Mainard , Glyn , had embraced thefame sentiments. In the parliament, a consider-able majority , and a much greater in the nation,were attached t© the presbyterian party; and itwas only by cunning and deceit at first, andafterwards by military violence , that the inde-pendents could entertain any hopes of success.

The earl of Manchester, provoked at the im-peachment , which the king had lodged againsthim , had long forwarded the war with alacrity;but, being a man of humanity and good principles,the view of public calamities, and the prospectof a total subversion of government, began tomoderate his ardor, and inclined him to promotepeace on any safe or honorable terms. He waseven suspected, in the field, not to have pushedto the utmost against the king the advantages,obtained by the arms of the parliament ; andCromwel, in the public debates, revived theaccusation, that this nobleman had wilfully neg-lected at Dennington-castle a favorable opportu-nity of finishing the war by a total defeat of theroyalist?. " I showed him evidently , " saidCromwel, “ how this success might be obtained;cc and only desired leave, with my own brigade“ of horse, to charge the king’s army in their

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