otally dissipated that army of the parliament.

* Rush. vol. vi. p. 615.

** Rush. vol. vi. p. 618.

*** Rush. vol. vi. p. 620.

*** Rush. vol. vi. p. 806.

But though fortune seemed to have divided her favors between the
parties, the king found himself, in the main, a considerable loser by
this winter campaign; and he prognosticated a still worse event from the
ensuing summer. The preparations of the parliament were great, and much
exceeded the slender resources of which he was possessed. In the
eastern association they levied fourteen thousand men, under the earl of
Manchester, seconded by Cromwell.[*] An army of ten thousand men, under
Essex; another of nearly the same force, under Waller, were assembled in
the neighborhood of London. The former was destined to oppose the king:
the latter was appointed to march into the west, where Prince Maurice,
with a small army which went continually to decay, was spending his
time in vain before Lyme, an inconsiderable town upon the sea-coast.
The utmost efforts of the king could not raise above ten thousand men at
Oxford; and on their sword chiefly, during the campaign, were these to
depend for subsistence.

The queen, terrified with the dangers which every way environed her, and
afraid of being enclosed in Oxford, in the middle of the kingdom, fled
to Exeter, where she hoped to be delivered unmolested of the child with
which she was now pregnant, and whence she had the means of an easy
escape into France, if pressed by the forces of the enemy. She knew the
implacable hatred which the parliament, on account of her religion and
her credit with the king, had all along borne her. Last summer, the
commons had sent up to the peers an impeachment of high treason against
her; because, in his utmost distresses, she had assisted her husband
with arms and ammunition which she had bought in Holland.[**] And
had she fallen into their hands, neither her sex, she knew, nor high
station, could protect her against insults at least, if not danger, from
those haughty republicans, who so little affected to conduct themselves
by the maxims of gallantry and politeness.

* Rush. vol. vi. p. 621.

** Rush. vol. vi. p. 321.

From the beginning of these dissensions, the parliament, it is
remarkable, had in all things assumed an extreme ascendant over their
sovereign, and had displayed a violence, and arrogated an authority,
which, on his side, would not have bee