But if the clergy of the State Church were dissatisfied, [A.D. 1640.] what was to be expected from the dissenting clergy and their supporters? The Puritans hailed the inroad of the Scots and even their occupation of Newcastle as a victory. For they thought that the King would now be forced to convene a Parliament, and that that body would overthrow the government, which had now drawn universal hatred upon itself, and would restore the ancient rights and liberties of England. FOOTNOTES: [181] ‘Sexte acte rescissory--it rescindes all former actes of parliament, which grantes to the kirk or kirkmen the priviledge of ryding and wotting in parliament;--nynthe acte called statutarie, ordaining parliaments to be holdin every three yeires.’ Balfour, Annals ii. 376. [182] ‘The commons are slaves to the gentry.’ Hardwicke Papers ii. 143. [183] The statement given by Sanford in his ‘Studies and Illustrations of the Great Rebellion’ 170, as a ‘new account,’ and attributed to Lord Falkland, has already been printed in Nalson ii. 477. It is a fragment from the Memoirs of Lord Manchester, the complete publication of which is much to be desired. [184] Montereuil, July 12. ‘Il s’est engagé de faire beaucoup de choses; le Marquis d’Hamilton, dont il est parent, a été le premier auteur de sa liberté.’ [185] The intentions of the army of the Kingdome of Scotland declaired to their Brethren of England; by the Commissioners of the late Parliament, and by the Generall, Noblemen, Barons and others, Officers of the Army. In Spalding i. 321. [186] Original information in Rushworth (who was himself in the English camp) iii. 1238. [187] The Earls of Strafford Speech: ‘You are no better than beasts if you refuse in this case to attend the King.’ In Rushworth iii. 1235. [188] ‘Cum quidam rebelles regni nostri Scotiae regnum nostrum Angliae cum posse non modico hostiliter ingressi sunt.’ From the King’s proclamation, in Rushworth. [189] Giustiniano, Sept. 7: ‘Di procurare a credito dalla compagnia dell’ India tutti li peveri, portate ultimamente giunte che ascendono alle somme di 70 m. lire, a disegno di farne poscia la vendita con discapito a mercanti.’ [190] Montereuil was informed in Cottington’s name, ‘Qu’on avoit besoin de 3 ou 4 millions; si le roi prestoit cette somme, pour en tirer quelque avantage de l’Ingleterre et l’engager à quelque traité, c’estoit à la France de proposer les conditions,’ [191] Montereuil, Aug. 23, 1640: ‘Pour n’avoir point de part aux conseils auxquels il y a pen de plaisir de se trouver présentement.’ [192] Sanderson to Laud, Sept. 13: ‘Multitudes of churchmen not only of the precise sort whose dislike is less to be regarded, because they will like nothing that is not of their own devising, but even of such as are otherwise every way regular and conformable.’ He laments ‘the disaffection which is already too great in most of our people to all public proceedings.’ BOOK VIII.