Lucy Aikin:Memoirs of the Court of King Charles the First (Volume 2)
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1833. Not illustrat… More...
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1833. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... now regarded as fully able to encounter Waller. Whilst this commander, who had been effectually deceived, was wandering about in Worcestershire, and afterwards recruiting his forces from Coventry and Warwick, Charles actively employed himself in raising contributions in Buckinghamshire, and thus strengthened he, in his turn, marched in quest of his opponent, whom he overtook a little to the north of Banbury. Here, at Copredy bridge on the Charwell, a partial action ensued, on July the 9th, in which the king proved himself the stronger; for Waller, after the engagement, marched away into Northamptonshire, and being quitted by the London regiments, gave up all further thoughts of encountering the royal army. It is worth mentioning, as a proof of the haughty bearing which Charles still thought it fitting to assume towards those whom he styled rebels, that immediately before this combat he designed to offer as a favor to the troops of the parliament a general pardon on condition of laying down their arms; but on his desiring a safeconduct for a gentleman who should be the bearer of a gracious message, Waller replied, that anything of that nature must be addressed not to himself, who had no authority to receive it, but to the two houses of parliament. Having thus extricated himself, beyond all reasonable expectation, from the immediate peril with which the cooperation of the two opposing armies had menaced him, the king resolved to follow Essex into the West, and he ordered Hopton, with all the force he should be able to levy in Wales, to meet him at Bristol; a circumstance which seems to show the purpose of the queen''s demand of a passport for that city. In fact it is not improbable that the hope of meeting with her once more, and prevailing upon her again to trust ... Lucy Aikin, Books, History, Memoirs of the Court of King Charles the First (Volume 2) Books>History, General Books LLC<
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Lucy Aikin:Memoirs of the Court of King Charles the First (Volume 2)
- new book ISBN: 9781154179781
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1833. Not illustrat… More...
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1833. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... now regarded as fully able to encounter Waller. Whilst this commander, who had been effectually deceived, was wandering about in Worcestershire, and afterwards recruiting his forces from Coventry and Warwick, Charles actively employed himself in raising contributions in Buckinghamshire, and thus strengthened he, in his turn, marched in quest of his opponent, whom he overtook a little to the north of Banbury. Here, at Copredy bridge on the Charwell, a partial action ensued, on July the 9th, in which the king proved himself the stronger; for Waller, after the engagement, marched away into Northamptonshire, and being quitted by the London regiments, gave up all further thoughts of encountering the royal army. It is worth mentioning, as a proof of the haughty bearing which Charles still thought it fitting to assume towards those whom he styled rebels, that immediately before this combat he designed to offer as a favor to the troops of the parliament a general pardon on condition of laying down their arms; but on his desiring a safeconduct for a gentleman who should be the bearer of a gracious message, Waller replied, that anything of that nature must be addressed not to himself, who had no authority to receive it, but to the two houses of parliament. Having thus extricated himself, beyond all reasonable expectation, from the immediate peril with which the cooperation of the two opposing armies had menaced him, the king resolved to follow Essex into the West, and he ordered Hopton, with all the force he should be able to levy in Wales, to meet him at Bristol; a circumstance which seems to show the purpose of the queen''s demand of a passport for that city. In fact it is not improbable that the hope of meeting with her once more, and prevailing upon her again to trust ... Lucy Aikin, Books, History, Memoirs of the Court of King Charles the First (Volume 2) Books>History <
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