T H E H I s T 0 R y 0 F T H E p u R I T A N s. p A R T II. c H A p T E R I. From the death of king CHARLES I. to the coronation of king CHARLES II. in Scotland. P 0 N the death of the late king, the legal confiitution Common~ was di!Tolved, and all that followed till the rell:oration of w~lth. king Charles II. was no better than an ufurpation under ~ different !hapes; the houfe of commons, if it may de- 'Ihe mo11ar– ferve that name, after it had been purged of a third part of ~hy turmd · b I · h n ,r . . 11 d mto a com– JtS mem 'ers, re ymg upon t e ac-• 0 contmuatzon, ea e man-wealth, themfelves the f upreme authority of the nation, and began with an aCt to _ difinherit the prince of Wales, forbidding all perfons to proclaim him king of England, on pain of high treafon. The houfe of lords was voted ufelefs; and the office of a king unnece!Tary, burdenfome, and dangerous. The form of government for the future was declared to be a free commonVoL . II. C c c wealth ;
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