Whitloeke, p.98.

Clarendon, vol.v p.

524, 525.

Sir Edward Walker, p.

69, 70, etc.
No sooner did this intelligence reach London, than the committee of the two kingdoms voted thanks to Essex for his fidelity, courage, and conduct; and this method of proceeding, no less politic than magnanimous, was preserved by the parliament throughout the whole course of the war.