Chap. IV. "be HISTORY of the PuRITANs. 55 I " ed tons for 'I ~ull granting that indulgence-" Upon reading thefe King d . h · 11· • h Charles II. letters, the comi/Jons voted, that accor mg tot e anuent conn1tutwn, t e 1060 . government of th is kingd om is, and ought to be, by king, lords, and ~· commons; and a committee was appointed to draw up a dutiful letter, !'a~liament . . . I . . 11. h" I . .. M t d t d znvzte the mv 1tm_g 11s maJe" y to return. to IS 1 omHJIOns: oney was vo e o e-king home fray h1s expences; a deputatiOn of lords and commo.ns was fent t~ attend without any his majefl:y ; -and the fleet .was ordered to convoy htm home. S1r Mat- terms, tbew Hale moved, tllat a committee might be appointed to review the propofttions of the ljle qf Wigbt , and was feconded in the motion; but MJJZk, who was prepared for fuch a motion, flood up and faid, " the Burnet. " nation was now quiet, but there were many incendiaries upon the watch " trying where they could firO: raife a flame; that he could not anfwer " for the peace of the kingdom or army, if any delays were put to the " fending for the king. What need is there of it (fays he) when he is " to bring neither arms nor treafure along with him." He then added, " that he lhould lay the blame of all the blood and mifcbief that might " follow, on the heads of thofe who lhould infill: upon any motion that " might retard the prefent fettlement of the nation." Which frightened the houfe into a compliance. And. this was all the fervice general Monk did towards the king's reftoration, forwn 1cll' he was rewarded with a garter, . a dukedom, a great iftate in land, and with one ofthe higheft pqfls if honour· and prqfit in tbe kingdom. Thus was the king voted home in a hurry, which was owing to the Owing in ·, flattering reprefenta tions made by lord C!arendon in his letters of the king's pca 1 rt todLd. d , b' d I' , b fi r. r h h aren on. goo nature, VIrtue, pro tty, an app !CatiOn to u Ine,s, w t at w en lb. P· 8x, the earl of Southampton faw afterwards what the king was like to prove, 89. he faid once in great wrath to the chancdlor, " that it was to him they " owed all they either felt or feared ; for if he had not polfeifed them in " all his letters with fuch an opinion of the king, they would have " taken care to have put it out of his power either to do himfelf or " them any mifchief, which was like to be the effect of thei r trufiing him " fo entirely." To which Hyde anfwered, that " he thought the king had " fo true a judgment, and fo much good nature, that when the age of « pleafure lhould be over, and the idlenefs of his exile, which made him " feek new diverftons for want of other employment, was turned to an " obligation to mind affairs, then he would have lhaken off thefe en- " tanglements." But here the chancellor was mi llaken. When the lord~ a_nd commons fent over a deputation to the king at Bre- A deputation da,_ the London mmlfl:ers moved that a pafs might be granted to fome ofof lards a~d then· number, to wait uoon his majefiy with an addrefs from their bre-commo~s~zth · h d' ] 0 R' Id fomemznijlers t ren; accor mg y r. eyno. s, Dr. Spurftow, Mr. Calamy, Mr. Hall, wait on t! 1 e Mr. Ma_1zton, and Mr. Cafe, were delegated, who went over with three king. or
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