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the [[underline]] Independents [[/underline]] went still farther, they excluded all Clergy and maintained that every Man might pray in Public, exhort his audience, and explain the scriptures-- After the Battle of Naseby the Kings affairs now went to ruin in all quarters, he had escaped to Oxford when he shut himself up with the broken remains of his Army--In this desperate extremity he embraced a measure, which was suggested to him by Montreulle the French Ambassador, and determined to quit Oxford for the Scottish Army which at that time lay before Newark The Scots who had given him before some general assurances of their fidelity and protection, instead of bestowing a thought on his interests instantly entered into a consultation upon their own-- they saw this a convenient time for insisting on their arrears and resolved to make the King the instrument by which this money was to be obtained-- after various debates upon this subject between them and the Parliament they agreed that upon payment of 400,,000 Pounds they
