Chap. IV. The HIS T 0 RY of the PuRtTAN'J; SSS " wife providence of God, which I delire alway~ .to adme, and bo.w cl!;~;, U. " down unto, has been pleafed to change my condltlon, that I am not m 1660 • " a capacity to anfwer the ends of ~he office.- I do _therefore mofl: ~), " freely refign, and give up all my nght and mter~fl: therem, but !hall al- " ways retain my a_ffeetion and ~fl:eem for you, wnh my prayer~ for ~~ur " continual profpenty, that atmdfl: the many exa.mple~ of the_w~abJhty " and revolutions of human affairs, you may ihll ab1de flounfhmg and " fruitful." Gentlemen, Hurfley, May 8, r66o. rour ajfeClionate friend and fervant, RICH. CROMWELU Thus RICHARD went oft' the fiage of public aCtion. " As he was His charac– " innocent of all the evil his father .ha.d done (fays Burnet), fo there. ter. " was no prejudice laid againfl: him. Upon his advancement to the pro- ~urnst, P• " teC\orlhip, the city of London, and almofl: all the counties of Eng2 ' 3 · " land, fent him addrefies of congratulation, but when he found the times " too boif1:erous he readily withdrew, and became a private man ; and " as he had done no hurt to any body, fo no body ever fiudied to hurt " him. A rare in!1:ance of the infiability of human greatnefs; and of the " fecurity of innocence!" In his younger years he had not all that zeal for religion as was the fa!l1ion of the times; but thofe who knew him well in the latter part of life have aifured me, that he was a perfeCt gentleman in his behaviour, well acquainted with public affairs, of great gravity, and real piety; but fo very modefi, that he would not be dif1:in~ guifhed or known by any name but the feigned one of Mr. Clarke, He died at Theobalds about the year 1712. . The king landed at Dover May 1.6, and came the fame night to 'Ihe kint Canterbury, where he refied the next day, and on 'Tuefday May zg, l~nds and rode in triumph with his two brothers, through the city of London to :J,desthrougb ,. h! 'drt h J • f . I wecztyto Wmte a I, ami 1t t e ace amatJOns o an mumerab e croud of fpeCtators. Whitehall~ As he pa!fed along, old Mr. Arthur ."f acij(;n an eminent preibyterian mini iter, prefented his majef1:y with a rich embofied bible, which he was pleafed to receive, and to declare it his refolution, to make that book the rule of his conduct. Two days after the k.ing's arrival at J.llbiteball, his maje!l:y went to the Cowv~ntio11 houfe of peers, and after a lbort congratulatory fpeech pa!fed an aB:, turn- turn:d into 4 ing the prefent convention into a parliament. After whieh the houfes for parl,amel1l. themfelves, and all the commons of England, laid hold of his majef1:y's moll: gracious pardon, and appointed a committee to prepare an act of 4 B 2 j.ndem-
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