Chapter II: Part I

Success of the King in the first Part of the War -- Efforts by
the moderate Party for Peace -- Affair at Brentford -- Treaty
of Oxford -- Impeachment of the Queen -- Waller's Plot --
Secession of some Peers to the King's Quarters -- Their
Treatment there impolitic -- The anti-pacific Party gain the
Ascendant at Westminster -- The Parliament makes a new Great
Seal -- And takes the Covenant -- Persecution of the Clergy who
refuse it -- Impeachment and Execution of Laud -- Decline of
the King's Affairs in 1644 -- Factions at Oxford -- Royalist
Lords and Commoners summoned to that City -- Treaty of Uxbridge
-- Impossibility of Agreement -- The Parliament insist on
unreasonable Terms -- Miseries of the War -- Essex and
Manchester suspected of Lukewarmness -- Self-denying Ordinance
-- Battle of Naseby -- Desperate Condition of the King's
Affairs -- He throws himself into the Hands of the Scots -- His
Struggles to preserve Episcopacy, against the Advice of the
Queen and others -- Bad Conduct of the Queen -- Publication of
Letters taken at Naseby -- Discovery of Glamorgan's Treaty --
King delivered up by the Scots -- Growth of the Independents
and Republicans -- Opposition to the Presbyterian Government --
Toleration -- Intrigues of the Army with the King -- His Person
seized -- The Parliament yield to the Army -- Mysterious
Conduct of Cromwell -- Imprudent Hopes of the King -- He
rejects the Proposals of the Army -- His Flight from Hampton
Court -- Alarming Votes against him -- Scots' Invasion -- The
Presbyterians regain the Ascendant -- Treaty of Newport --
Gradual Progress of a Republican Party -- Scheme among the
Officers of bringing Charles to Trial -- This is finally
determined -- Seclusion of Presbyterian Members -- Motives of
some of the King's Judges -- Question of his Execution
discussed -- His Character -- Icon Basilike Page 138