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wrote to the Parliament informing them that upon all occasions he would be as careful of their privileges as of his life and of his Crown--Thus his former violence had rendered him hateful to his Commons and and his present submission now rendered him contemptible After These concessions the Commons by degrees striped the King of almost all his Prerogatives and at last they desired even to command the Army for a time, but this so exasperated him that he exclaimed "No not for an hour" This peremptory refusal broke off all further treaty; and both sides were now resolved to have recource to Arms, to avoid being drawn into making more concessions he retired to York Each party was now willing to throw on its antagonest the odum of commencing a civil war; but both of them prepared for an event which they deemed inevitable and the Nation which was sufficiantly provided with Religeous as well as Civil
