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Armed with a pistol, he entered the King's bedchamber in the middle of the night on June 3, and told him that he must leave with his troop the next morning. As they were about to depart, Charles asked to know by what commission Joyce had been authorised to remove him. In reply, Joyce was said to have
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to "not to shift off that which the Lord hath called you to." He then claimed that through acting as the instruments of God's will, the council would be able to "remove mountains, such things as were never yet done by men on earth."
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not only interceded on his behalf, but promised him promotion. Eventually
Fairfax would come to appreciate Joyce's decision. Concerning his arrest of the King, Joyce reported in a letter:
175:, Parliament ordered the New Model Army to disband without full payment of their arrears. In response to this threat, Joyce was tasked with leading a troop of 500 men to take control of
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without a more “righteous and equal
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