Clarendon, vol.v.p.

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Fairfax himself was no less surprised at the king's arrival.

That bold measure, executed by Joyce, had never been communicated to the general.
The orders were entirely verbal, and nobody avowed them.

And while every one affected astonishment at the enterprise, Cromwell, by whose counsel it had been directed, arrived from London, and put an end to their deliberations.
This artful and audacious conspirator had conducted himself in the parliament with such profound dissimulation, with such refined hypocrisy, that he had long deceived those who, being themselves very dexterous practitioners in the same arts, should naturally have entertained the more suspicion against others.

At every intelligence of disorders in the army, he was moved to the highest pitch of grief and of anger.