Chap. HI. The HISTORY of the PuRITANs:· 479 Cbri/l, that I am not afraid to die. He enjoyed the full ufe of his unOliver deril:anding to the Jail:; but !oil: the ufe of his hands and appetite, in Pro~ellor. {o much that he could eat nothing for fome months before he died. Mr. ~~) Fuller fays, that he performed his exercife for batchelor of divinity with Fuller's general applaufe; that he was a good preacher, but fo fupple, that he break Worthies, not a joint in all the alteration of the times; and although fame fufpeded Book II. P· him of deferting his prefbyterian principles, yet upon his death-bed he 53 ' gave them full fatisfadion that he had not. His remains were folemnly interred in W iflminjler-Abbe)', but were dug up again at the reil:oration. The proteCtor having as yet no better than a military title to his high dig• x6s6. nity, refolved to obtain a more legal one as foon as the times would ad- Pr 1 o1 tetlor . H h d h' h h d'ffi 1. d ea sa new mlt. e a n_ow cut ~s way t roug. ~ g.reat ~any 1 .cu ues, an parliament. the {uccefs of h1s arms this fummer, havmg ra1fed h1s reputation to an un- Life of common pitch of greatnefs, he refolved to fummon a new parliament to Cromwell, meet at Weflminjler, Sept. 17, to confirm his title to the protedorillip; P· 34o. and the republicans being his moil: dangerous enemies, the proteCtor fent for Sir H. Vane and major-general· Ludlo7v, to give fecurity not to act againft the prefent government. He aiked Ludlow, what made him uneafy? or what he would have? Ludlo7/J nnfwered, He would have the nation governed by its own confent. I am, faid the proteCtor, as much for a government by confent as any man; but where {hall ·we find that confent ; Among the prelatical, prefbyterian, independent, anabaptiil:, or levelling parties? The other replied, among thofe of all forts who have aCted with fidelity and affeCtion to the pu blic. The protector apprehending that he was for throwing all things back into confufion, told him, that all men now enjoyed as much liberty and proteCtion as they could dc!ire, and that he was refolved to keep the nation from·being embrued again in blood. "I defire not iays he, to put any more hard01ips upon you " than upon myfelf ;.nor do I aim at any thing by this proceeding but the " public quiet and fecurity. As to my own circumil:ances in the world, I " have not much .improved them, as thefe gentlemen (pointing to his d council) well know." But Lud!ow, Sir Henry Vane, and colonel Rich, perfifting in their refnfal to give fecurity, were taken into cuB:ody. Bi!hop Burnet fays, that others follicited him to refiore the young king, and that the earl of Orrery told him, he might make his own terms; but that Cromwell r.eplied, that tbe Jon could never forgive his father's blood; and that he 7Vasfo debaucbed he c,vould undo .every thing: It was therefore refolv~d to fet him afide, and proceed upon .the pre~ fent plan. Wfien
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