Capitolo 12
his/her husband's return from Scotland it was all very superficial and
fallacious. The true motives for the dispute among the king and his
Parliament, and of the feelings of the alienation and the wish sick parish priests tenderly
toward the queen, it was all, unfortunately as I lavish and wide as
never; and the storm that untrustworthily cradled for a small time,
broken before soon after new, with a dreadful violence that it
it was evident that nothing could withstand. This new assault of disaster
and calamity was produced in such way that Henrietta had to reproach
her with the cause of his/her arrival being him.
You had represented to the thick king that, in his/her opinion, a principal
cause of the difficulties of which he had suffered was that he didn't act
efficiently and clearly, and as a man, in to put down the
opposition manifested against him from its subjects; and
now, soon after his/her return from Scotland, on the new spirit of
disaffection that appears in Parliament, she exhorted him to act to
once emphatically and quickly against him. You proposed to him to
takes an armed force with him, and audaciously proceeds to the rooms where
the Parliament was assembled, and it arrests the leaders of the party that
it was opposite to him. There were five of theirs who was especially
prominent. The queen believed that if these five men were grabbed and
imprisoned in the Tower, the rest would be intimidated and you/he/she would be intimidated,
and the lost authority of the monarch and the power would be restored again.
The king was convinced, partly from the laws of his really judgment,
and partly from the urgency of the queen, to make the attempt. The
circumstances of this case, till now as the action of the king it was
pertained to in them, it is fully reported in the history of Charles the
Before. We have here to only speak of the queen that had gone away to a state
of the great anxiety and the anxiety in his/her building to Whitehall while her
husband had gone on his/her dangerous mission.
The king's plan to irrupt this in the great legislative