e equal representative for the
future; and assert that, though servants, they are entitled to represent
these important points to their masters, who are themselves no better
than servants and trustees of the people. At the same time, they
advanced with the army to Windsor, and sent Colonel Eure to seize
the king's person at Newport, and convey him to Hurst Castle, in the
neighborhood, where he was detained in strict confinement.

[Illustration: 1-705-hurst-castle.jpg HURST CASTLE]

This measure being foreseen some time before, the king was exhorted to
make his escape, which was conceived to be very easy: but having given
his word to the parliament not to attempt the recovery of his liberty
during the treaty, and three weeks after, he would not, by any
persuasion, be induced to hazard the reproach of violating that promise.
In vain was it urged, that a promise given to the parliament could no
longer be binding; since they could no longer afford him protection from
violence threatened him by other persons, to whom he was bound by no
tie or engagement. The king would indulge no refinements of casuistry,
however plausible, in such delicate subjects; and was resolved that,
what depredations soever fortune should commit upon him, she never
should bereave him of his honor.[*]

* Colonel Cooke's Memoirs, p. 174. Rush. vol. viii. p. 1347.

The parliament lost not courage, notwithstanding the danger with which
they were so nearly menaced. Though without any plan for resisting
military usurpations, they resolved to withstand them to the uttermost;
and rather to bring on a violent and visible subversion of government,
than lend their authority to those illegal and sanguinary measures which
were projected. They set aside the remonstrance of the army, without
deigning to answer it; they voted the seizing of the king's person to
be without their consent, and sent a message to the general, to know by
what authority that enterprise had been executed; and they issued orders
that the army should advance no nearer to London.

Hollis, the present leader of the Presbyterians, was a man of
unconquerable intrepidity; and many others of that party seconded his
magnanimous spirit. It was proposed by them, that the generals and
principal officers should, for their disobedience and usurpations, be
proclaimed traitors by the parliament.

But the parliament was dealing with men who would not be frightened by
words, nor retarded by any scr