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When it became evident early in 1642 that accomodation between king and parliament was impossible, Edward Hyde secured permission from the House of Commons to retire to his family estates in Wiltshire. He pleaded ill-health and the need of country air. He fully intended, however, to join the king and the court at York but did not dare let his purpose become known for fear that parliament’s leaders might attempt to detain him in London. On his way north he stopped at Oxford where he stayed overnight with his friend, the warden of All Souls College.
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Clarendon, History of the Rebellion, II, 330, n.
Burrows, Worthies, p. 165.
I. Walton, Lives (London, 1678), p. 451.
Sir Giles Isham (ed.), The Correspondence of Bishop Duppa and Sir Justinian Isham, 1650–1660 (Northamptonshire Record Society, Vol. XVII; London, 1956), p. xxiii. Also CSP, Clarendon, I, 335.
J. Cosin. The Correspondence of John Cosin. (The Publications of the Surtees Society. Vol. iii, 1868; London, 1869), Part I, 232. Under no conditions would the commissioners stay to take part in this “popish” service. Instead they departed for a church in town. Here they were equally nonplussed to find an Ironsides officer in his buff coat and sword preaching against the Presbyterian government in London as “anti-Christian.”
Fell, p. xxxix.
Clarendon, History of the Rebellion IV, 228, states that Morley and Sanderson joined Sheldon and the king almost immediately. 20 CSP, Clarendon, I, 384, Hyde to Earle, July 15, 1647.
ibid., I, 384, Hyde to Sheldon, July 26, 1647.
See CSP, Clarendon, I, 380–400, where Sheldon is writing regularly to Hyde sending him the king’s instructions.
D. Neal, History of the Puritans, (London, 1837), II, 545.
Duppa to Sheldon, Oct. 19, 1648. Lambeth MSS. #943.
See especially Sanderson to Sheldon, Sept. 25, 1648, ibid.
See below p. 25.
See Egerton MSS. 2618, British Museum, Charles to Fairfax, Nov. 27, 1647, where the king announced the arrival of Sheldon and his friends and requested permission for them to remain with him.
Fell, p. xxxix.
Samuel Parker, History of His Own Times (London, 1777), p. 51.
Many of the Cambridge college heads were imprisoned below decks in a coal scow, under horrible conditions, and were even in imminent danger for some time of being sold into slavery in Barbados. See Barwick, p. 37.
See I. Walton, p. 450, and M. Burrows, (ed.), The Register of the Parliamentary Visitors, of the University of Oxford (Camden Society Publications, New Series, Vol. 29, 1881), p. lxiii, for the membership.
ibid. Burrows calls this position paper a “skillful” bit of pleading.
Most of these events are given in Burrows’, introduction, ibid. However, in some places Burrows’ account is sketchy and one must go to the Wood MSS. f. 35, the Bodleian Library, where many of the documents produced by the strategy committee are available.
E. H. Plumptre, Life of Thomas Ken (London, 1890), I, 40, describes this act in some detail.
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Sutch, V.D. (1973). The Civil War. In: Gilbert Sheldon. Archives Internationales D’Histoire des Idees / International Archives of the History of Ideas, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2003-9_2
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