Sir William Middleton joined Booth with some troops from North Wales; and the malecontents were powerful enough to subdue all in that neighborhood who ventured to oppose them.

In their declaration they made no mention of the king; they only demanded a free and full parliament.
The parliament was justly alarmed.

How combustible the materials, they well knew; and the fire was now fallen among them.

Booth was of a family eminently Presbyterian; and his conjunction with the royalists they regarded as a dangerous symptom.

They had many officers whose fidelity they could more depend on than that of Lambert; but there was no one in whose vigilance and capacity they reposed such confidence.