16, etc.
** Whitlocke, p.61.Clarendon, vol.iii.p.

59.
After the royal army was recruited and refreshed, as the weather still continued favorable, it was again put in motion, A party of horse approached to Reading, of which Martin was appointed governor by the parliament.

Both governor and garrison were seized with a panic, and fled with precipitation to London.

The king, hoping that every thing would yield before him, advanced with his whole army to Reading.

The parliament, who, instead of their fond expectations that Charles would never be able to collect an army, had now the prospect of a civil war, bloody, and of uncertain event; were further alarmed at the near approach of the royal army, while their own forces lay at a distance.
They voted an address for a treaty.