Chap. II. 'lbe HIS T 0 RY of the PuRITANSi company of foot; and having taken away the commiffions from their Commonfii bl b h · wealth. feveral cla!fes, enjoined them not to.a em e any more a ove t ree m a 1651 • company. ~. llut with all thefe commotions, bi!hop Burnet obferves, that the coun- State of try was kept in great order; the garrifons in the highlands obferved an Scotland, exaCt difcipline, and were well paid, which brought fo much money in- P· 61 • to the kingdom, that it continued all the ufurpation in a flourifhing condition; ju!lice was carefully adminiftered, and vice was fuppreifed and punilhed ; there was a great appearance of devotion; ~he fabbath was obferved with uncommon firiCtnefs ; none might walk the il:reets in time of divine fervice, nor frequent public houfes; the evenings of the Lord'& days were fpent in catechifing their children, finging pfalms, and other aCts of family devotion, in fo much that an acquaintance with the principles of religion, and the gift of prayer, encreafed prodigiouily among the. common people. The war being now ended, the parliament publi!hed an aCt of indemnity Act of in– for all c;:rimes committed before June 30. I 648. except pyrates, irijh rebels, demnity, an~ the murderers of Dr- Dorijlaus and Mr. Afcham, and fome others, :,/fiw/ounczl provided they laid bold of it, and took the engagement before Feb. J. a e. J652. In the clofe of the year they chafe a new council of !late out of their own body for the next year, and continued themfeives, inf!:ead o£ diifolving and giving way to a new parliament; the negleCt of which was their min. - On the 26th of Sept. lieutenant-general Ireton died at Limerick in Ire- Denth of land, after he had reduced that city t'o the obedience of the common- L.G. IretonJ, wealth. He was bred to the law, and was a perfon of great integrity, bold and intrepid in all his enterprizes, and never to·be diverted from what he thought juil: and right by any arguments or perfuafions. He was a thorough commonwealth's man. Bi!hop Burnet fays, he had the princi- p. 46. pies and temper of a Ca!Jius, and was moft liberal•in employing his purfe and hazarding his perfon in the fervice of the public. He died in the midfl: of life of a burning fever, after ten days Gcknefs. His body being brought over into England was laid in flate at Somerjet-Houfe, and buried in Weflmil?fler-.Abbey with a pomp and magnificence fuited to r~e dignity of his ftation; but after the refloration of the royal family, h1s body was taken out of the grave with Cromwell's, and buried under t-he gallows. About the ~ame time died Mr. Francis Woodcock, born in Chef!er 16 r3· Deatho_fMr. and educated_m Brazen-Nqfe CollegeOxford, where he took a degree in Woodcock, arts, en:ter~d mto order~,.and had a cure of fouls bellowed upon him. In Ath. Ox. the begmnmg of the CIVll wars he fided with the parliament, and was one of the alfembly of divines, being then leCturer of St. LawrenceJewry•.
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