s4o hims2llc to shew the least disfavour to him for former uissents, but rather a desire to engage his kindnesse. And soone after, when the collonell went himselfe to London and went to the young protector, he told him, that since God had eall'd him to the government, it was his desire to make men of uprightnesse and interest his associates, to rule by their councells and assistance, and not to enslave the nation to an armie; and that if by them he had bene putt upon any thing prciudiciall or clisoblieging to the collonell in pricking him for sheriffe, he should endeavour to take it of, or to serve him any other way, assoone as he had disentangled himselfc from the officers of the armie, who att present constrein'd him in many things, and therefore if the collonell would please, without unkindnessc, to exercise this office, he should receive it as an obligation, and seek one more acceptable to him after. The collonell seeing him herein good-natur'd enough, was . persuaded by a very wise friend of his to take it upon him, and return'd well enough -satisfied '"ith the courteous usage of the protector. This gentleman who had thus councell'd the collonell, \vas as considerable and as wise a person as any was in England, who did not openly appeare among Richard's adherents or councellors, but privately advis'd him, and had a very honorable designe of bringing the nation into .freedome under this young man; who was so flexible to good councells, that there was nothing desirable in a prince which might not have been hoped in him, but a greate spiritt and a iust title: the first of which someti}l1es cloth more hurt then good in a soveraigne; the latter would have bene supplied by the people's deserved approbation. This person was very free to impart to the collonell all the dcsigne of settling the. state under this single person, and the hopes of felicity in such an establishment. The collonell debating this with him, told him, that if ever it were once fixt in a single person, and the army taken of, which could not consist with the liberty of the people, it could not be preyented from returning to the late eiected family; and that on whatever termes they return'd, it was folly to
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