694. The HISTORY of the PURITANS. Chap. IX. If. CharlesI. native, which' was his own confent, he rofe up in a great furprize and _6 :lifting up his eyes to heaven faid, put not your trufi in princes nor in Nalron, the fans of men, for in them there is nofälvation. Two days after this p. 203. ;[May ta.] he was executed upon Tower-Hill, and fubmitted to the ax with a roman bravery and courage ; but at the reftoration of kingCharles II. his attainder was reverfed, and the articles of accumulative treafon de- clared null, becaufe what is not treafon in the feveral parts cannot amount to treafon in the whole. CiaratOer of This was the unhappy fate of Thomas Wentworth earl of Stra$ord, the earl of once an eminent patriot and afï'ertor of the liberties of his country, Strafford. P y after he was called to court, one of the moft arbitrary miniflers that this nation ever produced. He was certainly a gentleman of diflinguilhed abilities, as appears by the incomparable defence he made on his trial, which gained him more reputation and efteem with the people, than all the later actions of his life put together ; but Rill he was a public enemy of his country, and had as great a (hare in thofe fatal counfels that brought on the civil war as any man then living. " The earl (lays " Mr. Eachard) was of a fevere countenance, infufferably proud and " haughty, having a fovereign contempt of the people, whom he ne- " r ver ftudied to gratify in any thing ; the ancient nobility looked upon his fudden rife, and univerfal influence in public affairs, with envy ; fo that he had but few friends, and a great many ene- " mies." Lord Digby in his famous fpeech againft the bill of attainder, where- in he.wafhes his hands of the blood of the earl of Straford, has never- thelefs thefe expreffions; " I confidentlybelieve him the molt dangerous " minifter, and the moll infupportable to free fubjefts that can be cha- " raftered. I believe his pra&ices in themfelves have been as high and " tyrannical as any fubjc»t ever ventured upon ; and the malignity of .< them are greatly aggravated by thefe abilities of his, whereof God " has given him the ufe, but the devil the application. In a word, I " believe him dill that grand apofiate to the commonwealth, who mutt not expeft to be pardoned in this world, till he be difpatched to the " other." Lord Falkland lays, " That he committed fo many mighty and fo manifeft enormities and oppreffions in the kingdom of Ireland, that " the like have not been committed by any governor in any govern- " ment finee Verres left Sicily ; and after his lordfhip was called over from being deputy of Ireland, to be in a manner deputy of England, p° he and the Jun8iillo gave fuch counfels and purfued fuch courfes as'tis " hard to fay, whether they were more unwife, more unjuft, or more unfortunate." Lord
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