rained to stand upon his guard, not even daring to go to church
unarmed.[v]

* Rush. vol. v. p. 524.

** Rush. vol. v. p. 532.

*** Rush. part. iii. vol. i. chap. iv. p. 524.

**** Clarendon. Rush., part. iii. vol. i. chap, ii p. 495.

v Dugdale, p. 80.

That the same violence by which he had so long been oppressed might not
still reach him, and extort his consent to the militia bill, Charles
had resolved to remove farther from London; and accordingly, taking the
prince of Wales and the duke of York along with him, he arrived by slow
journeys at York, which he determined for some time to make the place of
his residence. The distant parts of the kingdom, being removed from that
furious vortex of new principles and opinions which had transported the
capital, still retained a sincere regard for the church and monarchy;
and the king here found marks of attachment beyond what he had before
expected.[*]

* Warwick, p. 203.

From all quarters of England, the prime nobility and gentry, either
personally or by messages and letters, expressed their duty towards him;
and exhorted him to save himself and them from that ignominious slavery
with which they were threatened. The small interval of time which had
passed since the fatal accusation of the members, had been sufficient
to open the eyes of many, and to recover them from the astonishment with
which at first they had been seized. One rash and passionate attempt
of the king's seemed but a small counterbalance to so many acts of
deliberate violence which had been offered to him and every branch of
the legislature; and, however sweet the sound of liberty, many
resolved to adhere to that moderate freedom transmitted them from their
ancestors, and now better secured by such important concessions, rather
than, by engaging in a giddy search after more independence, run a
manifest risk either of incurring a cruel subjection, or abandoning all
law and order.

Charles, finding himself supported by a considerable party in the
kingdom, began to speak in a firmer tone, and to retort the accusations
of the commons with a vigor which he had not before exerted.
Notwithstanding their remonstrances, and menaces, and insults, he
still persisted in refusing their bill; and they proceeded to frame an
ordinance, in which, by the authority of the two houses, without
the king's consent, they named lieutenants for all the counties, and
conferred on them the