[ a report written by a gentleman called Thomas Wiseman to Sir John Penington. Penington was not in London at the time and wanted to be kept informed of what was happening ]

12 Bishops were impeached of high treason by the Parlament and this weeke 5 of the chieffe members of the howse of Commons & the Lord Mandevill in the Lords howse by the King are by the charge given them & theire names you may perceive by a particule herewith inclosed which hath bredd such a distemper both in the cittie & howses of Parlament that wee are not free from the feares of an insurrection …

What these distempers will produce the God of heaven knows but it is feared they cannot otherwise end in blood. The puritan factions which the sectarys & schzmaticks are to prevalent both in Cittie & Countrey soe that no man can tell if the King & Parlament should not agree which partie would bee strongest. On Tewsday his Majestie went to the howse of Commons to demand the persons of those that were accused for Treason but they were not there to bee found; the howse it seemes taking it ill, the King should come to breake these privelledges & for ought I understand resolve to protect theire members & not to deliver them unto the hands of the King to take them by force they have such a partie in the cittie that it will cost hott water.