Excerpt from An Impartial Collection of the Great Affairs of State, From the Beginning of the Scotch Rebellion in the Year 1639, to the Murther of King Charles I, Vol. 2: Wherein the First Occasions, and the Whole Series of the Late Troubles in England, Scotland, and Ireland, Are Faithfully Represented, Taken From Authentick Records, and Methodically Digested
'but {till the Power of the Sword, the Militia of the Nation, hung terribl as they thought by the fingle hair of the Kings Authority, over t eir heads and their fears of a future account, if ever their So veraignty fliould come to a Period, and the fufpicion that this Gordian knot which they had fo firongly woven, though it could be no other way untied, might yet be looled by Alexander's Method, made them extremely Sollicitons, to wrell that Power out of the hands of the King. And to effeét this, all thofe Plots and Contrivanc'es Which the Reader Will meet with in the enfuing Colleé'tiom, fome of whilsh are.
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