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King but at the same time alledged his Duty to enployer--Ashburnham imprudently if not treacherously brought Hammond to Litchfield and the King was obliged to put himself in his hands and attend him to Caresbroke Castle The Parliament in their transactions with Charles payed no longer any regard to equity and reason--It was voted that no more messages should be received from him and that it be treason for anyone without leave of the two Houses, to have any intercourse with him--The Lords concurred in the same ordinance By this vote the King was in [[underline]] reality dethroned [[/underline]] But the Parliament and Army enjoyed not in tranquillity that power which they had obtained with so much violence and injustice--Scotland from whence the King's cause had received the first fatal disaster, seemed now to promis its support and assistance, and when they accompanied the English commissioners to the Isle of Wight, they secretly formed a treaty with the
