Note 361 — Chapter II · THE CAMPAIGNS OF 1642 AND 1643.
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Challoner’s words just before his execution leave no doubt of this purpose: ‘That if we could make a moderate party here in London, to stand betwixt and in the gap to unite the King and the Parliament, it would be a very acceptable work.’ Waller says: ‘For the propositions of letting in part of the King’s army, or offering violence to the members of this house, I ever disallowed or utterly rejected them.’ Parl. Hist. xii. 322.