Nay, the earl of Bristol moved, that no pardon might be granted to those who had anywise contributed to the king's death.

So wide an exception, in which every one who had served the parliament might be comprehended, gave a general alarm; and men began to apprehend, that this motion was the effect of some court artifice or intrigue.

But the king soon dissipated these fears.

He came to the house of peers, and in the most earnest terms passed the act of general indemnity.

He urged both the necessity of the thing, and the obligation of his former promise; a promise, he said which he would ever regard as sacred; since to it he probably owed the satisfaction which at present he enjoyed of meeting his people in parliament.