590 TbeHISTOR.YojthePutti'l'ANS. Votl!. Ch~:;~~ Il tbe portraiture of his focred majijly in his .folitude andjitlferings, were 1660 • · burnt by the hands of the common hangman ; tocrether with Mr. Jobn ~ Goodwin's book, en tituled, the objlruClors of jujli:'e; but the authors ab~ Burnet, P· fcond ed till the ftorm was over. lt w a s a furprize to all, that they efcaped 16 3• 16 +· p~ofecution. None but Goodwin and Peters had magnified the king's execution. in th.eir fermon s ; but Good~vin's being a ll:renuous arminian pro – cured htm fnend s. M /ton had appeared [o boldly, though with mu ch• wit, and fo great purity and elegance of flile, upon the argument of the king's death, that it was thought a firange omiffion not to except him o~ t of the a~ o~ indemnity ; but he l!ved many years after, though blt nd, to acqUire Immortal renown by hts celebrated poem of Paradift loft. Popery reThe tide of joy which overflowed the nation at the king's refioration, vives in En- brought with it the return of popery, which h2d been at a very low ebb gland. during the late commotions: Great numbers of that religion came over with his majefiy, and crouded about the court, magnifying their fuffer– ings for the late king. A lift of the lords, gentlemen, and other officers, who were killed in his fervice, was printed in red letters, by which it ap– peared that feveral noblemen, ten knights and baronets, fourteen colont:ls, feven lieutenant-colonels, fourteen major:;, fixty-fix captains, eighteen lieutenants and cornets, and thirty-eight gentlemen, loft their lives in the civil war, befides great numbers who were wounded, and whofe efiates were feque!l:ered. The queen-mother came from France, and refided at Somerfet-houje with her catholic attendants both rel igious and fecular. Se– veral romijh priefts who had been confined in Newgate, Lanctijler, and other gaols, were by order of council fet at liberty. Many popilh priefis were fent over from Douay into England, as miffionaries for propagating that religion; and their clergy appeared openly in defiance of the laws ; they were bufy about the court and city in difperfing popilh books of de– votion; and the king gave open countenance and protection to fuch as had been ferviceable to him abroad, and came over with him, or foon followed him, which (bilhop Kennet fays) his majell:y could not avoid. Upon the whole, more roman catholics appeared openly this year, than in all the twelve years of the inter-regnum. A-nd in IreIn Ireland the papifis took poffefiion of their e!l:ates, which had been land, forfeited by the rebellion and maft1cre, and turned out the purcha fers ; which occafioned fuch commotions in that kingdom, that the king wasob– liged to iffue out a proclamation, commanding them to wait the determi~ nations of the enfuing parliament. The body of their clerg'y by an in– firument, bearing date J an. I, 166o, 0. S. figned and fealed by the chief prelates and officials of their religion, ventured to depute a perfon · of
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