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 with the Scots at Ripon, 1st October 1640, by and by transferred to London, went peaceably on at a very leisurely pace. The Scotch Army lay quartered at Newcastle, and over Northumberland and Durham, on an allowance of 850l. a-day; an Army indispensable for Puritan objects; no haste in finishing its Treaty. The English Army lay across in Yorkshire, without allowance except from the casualties of the King’s Exchequer; in a dissatisfied manner, and occasionally getting into ‘Army-Plots.’

This Parliament, which met on the 3d of November 1640, has become very celebrated in History by the name of the Long Parliament. It accomplished and suffered very singular destinies; suffered a Pride’s Purge, a Cromwell’s Ejectment; suffered Reinstatements, Re-ejectments; and the Rump or Fag-end of it did not finally vanish till 16th March 1659-60. Oliver Cromwell sat again in this Parliament for Cambridge Town; Meautys, his old Colleague, is now changed for John Lowry, Esquire, probably a more Puritanic man. The Members for Cambridge University are the same in both Parliaments.

“London, February 1640.”

''Sir,—I desire you to send me the Reasons of the Scots to enforce their desire of Uniformity in Religion, expressed in their 8th Article; I mean that which I had before of you. I would peruse it against we fall upon that Debate, which will be speedily. Yours,'' OLIVER CROMWELL.