331 wood being then present, in mourning for his wife, who died at the same time her lord did, tooke occasion to introduce himselfe, and was immediately accepted by the lady and her father, who design'd thus to restore his daughter to the honor she was fallen from. His plott tooke as himselfe could wish, for Lambert, who saw h!mselfe thus cutt off from halfe ·his exaltation, sent the house an insolent message, " that if they found him so unworthy of the honor they " had given him as so soone to repent it, he would not retard their " remedie for six months, but was ready to surrender their corn- " mission before he enter'd into his office." They tooke him att his worde, and made Fleetewood deputy, and Ludlow commander of the horse; whereupon Lambert, with a heart full of spite, mallfce, and revenge, retreated to his pallace at ·Wimbledon, and sate there watching an oppertunity to destroy the parliament. Cromwell, allthough he chiefely wrought this businesse in the house, yett flatter'd with Lambert, and, having another reach of ambition in his brest, ·helpt to enflame Lambert against those of the parliament who were not his creatures, and to cast the odinm of his disgrace upon them, and professe his owne clearenesse in it, and pitty of him, that should be drawne into such an inconvenience as the charge of putting himselfe into equipage, and the loss of all that provision; which Cromwell, pretending generosity, tooke all upon his owne account, and deliver'd him of the debt. Lambert dissembled againe on his part, and insinuated himself into Cromwell, fomenting his ambition to take the administration of all the conquer'd nations into his owne hands; but finding themselves not strong enough alone, they tooke to them Maior-generall Harrison, who had a greate interest both in the armie and the churches; and these, pretending a pious trouble that there were such delaycs in the administration of iustice, and such perverting of right, endeavour'd to bring all good men into dislike of the parliament, pretending that they would perpetuate themselves in their honors and offices, and
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