Chap. X. 7be HIS T 0 R Y of tbe PuRITANS. 357 refemble the original. Some paffages of it are thefe, " - We have K. Charles I. " laboured long in fearch of peace, do not you be difheartened to tre~d~ -" in the fame fieps.- Prefer the way of peace- Conquer your enermes Book XI. p•. " by pardoning rather than by pu~i£hi~1g --N eve~ a~eet more great- 229. " nefs or prerogative than that wh1ch IS really and mtnn!ically for the '' oood of your fubjeds, not the fatisfaction of favourites. You may " ~erceive that all men entrufi their trcafure where it returns them intere~. " If princes, like the fea, receive, and repay all the frefh ftreams the ri- " vers intruft them with, they will not grudge, but pride themfelves to " make them up an ocean --If God refiore you to your right, what- " ever you promife keep-- Don't think any thing in this world worth " obtaining by falfe and unju!t means--." Thefe are excellent maxims of government; and if his majefiy had concluded himfelf by them he could not have been reduced to fuch a low and deO:itute condition, as to have hardly a place in the world to hide himfelf in; " for, fays Clar. p. '·'3~'• " lord Clarendcn, there was at that time no court in chriftendom fo " honourably or generoully confiituted, that it would have been glad to •• have feen him, and they who wifhed him well, did not wifh his " efcape, becaufe they imagined impri(onment was the wor£1: that could " befal him." I am unwilling to fufped the genuinenefs of this letter, though there Remarks. were fo many forgeries obtruded upon the world about rhis time to advance nis majefl:y's piety and virtue, that one can hardly feel the ground he treads on. If (uch a letter wa~ fent to the princf, 'tis very firange he Owuld• never fee it;. or that his lordfhip, who lived in the prince's family, and extracted his account of the treaty of Newport from thefe papers (as hC' · declares) iliould never 01ew it his mailer; and yet thefe are the words of biiliop Burnet, in the Hijlory of his Lif~ and Times, " The duke of York.p. 5 r. « fuffered me to talk very freely to him about religion, and he told me " among other things, that the letter to the prince qf Wales 7.oas never- " brought to him." The army had been fix months in the field this (ummer engaged againf1: Tbe cafe of the cavaliers- andJcots, .who bei.og now reduced and fu bdued, they began to ·the army. exprefs an high dilfatisfadion with theprefint treaty, becaufe no' provifion· had been made f-or their darling point, liberty if c01!fcience. Here they had jufi reafon of complaint, but ought not to have relieved them(elves by the methods, and at the expence they did. They were thorougly iocenfed againfi the king and his cavaliers on one hand, and the high presbyterians· on the ~t?er. It appeared to them, that the king~s fentiments. in religion.- and politiCS were not changed; that he would always be railing new com- · motions till things returned to their former channel; and in the prefent treaty he had yielded nothing but. through confhaint ;. and that when he. was,
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