S70 when he saw all the nobillity and gentry of the land flowing in to him, askt where were his enemies? },or he saw nothing but prostrates, expressing all the love that could make a prince happie. Indeed it was a wonder in that day to see the mutabillity of some, and the 11ipocrisie of others, and the servile flattery of all. Monke, like his better genius, conducted him, and was ador'd like one that had brought all the glory and felicity of mankind home with this prince. The officers of the armie had made themselves as fine as the courtiers, and every one hoped in this change to change their condition, and disown'd all things they before had advis'd. Every ballad singer sung up and downe the streetes ribald rymes, made in roproach of the late commonwealth, and all those worthies that therein endeavour'd the people's freedome and happinesse. The ' presbiterians were now the white boyes, and according to their nature fell a thirsting, then hunting after blood, urging that God's blessing could not be upon the land, till iustice had cleans'd it from the late king's blood. First that fact was disown'd, then all the acts made after it render'd void, then im inquisition made after those that were guilty thereof, but only seven nominated of them that sate in iudgment on that prince, for exemplary iustice, and a proclamation sent for the rest to come in, upon penalty of loosing their estates. While these things were debating in the house, at the first, divers persons, concern'd in that businesse, sate there, and when the busid It has been pretty generally reported and believed of the king, that he was more inclined to confirm and augment than disturb or diminish the extent of the arr_mesty he had proffered at Breda; and there are upon record very honourable instances of many of the roya1ists exhibiting a spirit of forgiveness and reconciliation: perhaps the most rational way of accounting for the chief of the presbyterian party shewing rigour, is to suppose that they did it in order to remove from themselves the odium of those violences of which they had been the original and remote cause, and cast it on those who were the immediate and proximate one. Be the cause or reasoning what it may, the fact is well established by the trials of the regicides.
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