Essex and Waller, and who were ready at the first summons to draw the sword in defence of the covenant; and the supreme authority over the military within the lines of communication had been, by an ordinance of the last year, vested in a committee, all the members of which were strongly attached to the Presbyterian interest. These fanatics had discovered in the Bible, that the government of kings was odious in the sight of God,[1] and contended that in fact Charles had now no claim to the sceptre. Being ready, he bent his neck on the block, and after a short pause, stretched out his hand as a signal. They had sinned too deeply against royalty to trust themselves to the mercy, or the moderation, of a king. The speaker Lenthall, the organ of work office or home supreme authority, like former kings, received the sword of state from the mayor, and delivered it to him again. I made a present of them to Cromwell, desiring him by work office or home that he would do the like with me, as any of mine should fall in his power.
The chancellor, in return, declared him a murderer of his fellow-subjects, an enemy to the covenant and the peace of the kingdom, and an agitator, whose ambition had helped to destroy the father, and was now employed for the destruction of the son. He marched back to the capital; the hope of resistance was abandoned; Edinburgh and Leith opened their gates, and the whole country to the Forth submitted [Footnote 1: Carte's Letters, i. Then shoot me dead," exclaimed the distressed prince, "rather than let me live to see the sad consequences of this day. 1] This party the council resolved to attack in their chief bulwark, the city; and Love, one of work at home most celebrated of the ministers, was apprehended[a] with several of his associates. Thus the whole frame of the Scottish constitution was subverted: yet no one ventured to work office or home or oppose. The protector then rose, took off his hat, and addressed them in a speech which lasted three hours. He dismissed all officers of doubtful fidelity from their commands in the army, and secured the obedience of the men by the substitution of others more devoted to his interest; by his order, Colonel Wildman was surprised in the very act of dictating [Footnote 1: See Thurloe, iii. That the removal of Berkeley originated with Mazarin and was required by Fuensaldagna, who employed Lord want to stay home and work and Bennet for that purpose, appears from Cromwell's letter to the cardinal (Thurloe, v.