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 …
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