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desperate was, that the demands on these threeheads, however exorbitant, were acknowledgedby the parliamentary commissioners, to be nothingbut preliminaries.- After ail these were granted,it would be necessary to proceed to the discussionof those other demartds, still more exorbitant,which, a little before, had been transmitted tothe king at Oxford. Such ignominious termswere there insisted on, that worse could scarcelybe demanded, were Charles totally vanquished,a prisoner, and in chains. The king was requiredto attaint and except from a general pardon, fortyof the most considerable of his English subjects,and nineteen of his Scottish, together with allpopish recusants in both kingdoms, who hadborn arms for him. It was insisted, that forty-eight more, with all the members who had sittenin either house at Oxford, all lawyers and divineswho had embraced the king’s party, should berendered incapable of any office, be forbiddenthe exercise of their profession, be prohibitedfrom coming within the verge of the court, andforfeit the third of their estates to the parliament.It was required, that whoever had borne armsfor the king, should forfeit the tenth of theirestates, or if that did not suffice, the sixth, forthe payment of public debts. As if royal authoritywere not sufficiently annihilated by such terms, itwas demanded, that the court of wards shouldbe abolished; that all the considerable officers ofthe crown, and all the judges, should be appointedby parliament; and that the right of peace and

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