Perilous Adventures; Or Remarkable Instances of Courage, Perseverance, and Suffering - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 edition. Excerpt: ... ATTEMPT OF CHARLES II. TO RECOVER THE ENGLISH CROWN; HIS DEFEAT AT WORCESTER; AND HIS WANDERINGS TILL HIS ESCAPE FROM ENGLAND. When, on the first of February, 1647, the Scots gave up to his irritated enemies the misguided and unfortunate Charles the First, they certainly did not foresee that his death on the scaffold would ultimately be the result of that act. Their sole object was to make him an instrument of extracting as much money as possible from those with whom they were dealing; they were not sanguinary, they were only mean. When, therefore, they found that the king was about to be brought to trial, and that, in all probability, his life would be the forfeit, they deemed it necessary to take some steps to ward off the danger which hung over him. They were, besides, animated by another powerful motive: an utter abhorrence of the Independents, who were now dominant in England. On the sixth of January, the Scottish commissioners in London addressed to the speaker of .the House of Commons, on the part of the Scottish Parliament, a long letter, indignantly protesting against the trial of the monarch, the recent expulsion and imprisonment of several members of the Legislature, the neglect of the solemn League and Covenant, and the manifest intention of " introducing a toleration of all religions and forms of worship." No answer being given by the Commons, the commissioners, on the twenty-second, repeated their protest in still more forcible terms. Speaking in the name of the Scottish Parliament and people, they declared that " it will be a great grief to their hearts, and lie heavy on their spirits, if they shall see their trusting of his majesty's person to the honourable houses of Parliament of England, to be made use of to his ruin;"...