within a few days, I will put him in mind of his profession of friendship to you, and try what he can or will do. Sir Robert Honeywood is also come hither;

simis, quasi argumentis, respondendo, id iis tribuisse videar, quo dignae non erant. Unum restat, et fortasse maximum, ut vos quoque, o Cives, adversarium hunc vestrum ipsi refutetis; quod nulla ratione video posse fieri, nisi omnium maledicta vestris optimè factis exuperare perpetuo contendatis. Vota vestra et preces ardentissimas Deus, cum servitutis haud uno genere oppressi, ad eum confugistis, benignè exaudiit. Quae duo in vita homi num mala sanè maxima sunt, et virtuti damnosissima, tyrannis et superstitio, iis, vos gentium primos, gloriosè liberavit; eam animi magnitudinem vobis injectit, ut devictum armis vestris et deditium regem judicio inclyto judicare, et condemnatum punire primi mortalium non dubitaretis. Post hoc facinus tam illustre, nihil humile aut augustum, nihil non magnum atque excelsum et cogitare et facere debebétis. Quam laudem ut assequamini, hac sola incedendum est via, si ut hostes bello domuistis, ita ambitionem, avaritiam, opes, et secundarum rerum corruptelas, quae subigunt caeteras gentes hominum, ostenderitis vos etiam inermes medi in pace omnium mortalium fortissime debellare; si, quam in repellenda servitute fortitudinem praestitistis, eam in libertate conservanda justitiam, temperantiam, moderationem praestiteritis. His solis argumentis et testimoniis evincere potestis, non esse vos illos, quos hic probriis insequitur, perduelles, latrones, sicarios, parricidas, fanaticos; non vos ambitionis aut alieni invadendo studio, non seditione, aut pravis ullis cupiditatibus, non amentia aut furore percitos Regem trucidiasse, sed amore libertatis, religionis, justitiae, honestatis, patriae denique charitate accensos, tyrannum puniisse........

Joannis Miltoni, Angli, pro Populo Anglicano, Defensio, contra Claudii, alias Salmasii Defensionem Regiam.... Londini, typis Du Gardianis, A. D. 1651, in folio, quarto, duodecimo.

and as I hear, the King is graciously pleased to admit him to his presence; which will be somewhat the better for you; because then the exceptions against

Now therefore, right honorable! when I look upon you, and behold you more highly intrusted than kings, and far more nobly adorned, upon a better ground than they were, with all the rights, interests, and privileges of the people; when I consider how God hath wrested the sword out of their hands, and placed it in yours for our protection, with the conservation of our peace and liberties, and made you the happy instruments of freeing us from the yoke of kings; when I call to minde, how nobly you asserted the rights of England against domestic tyrannie, upon the neck of the late king, and laid the foundation of our freedom upon the highest act of justice; (when justice sat more gloriously inthroned than ever it did before on any earthly tribunal) I am raised with more than ordinarie confidence, that the same spirit of justice, which actuated you in your former atchievements for our establishment by land against him and his posteritie, will carry you on, as you have begun, to vindicate those rights by sea against all foreign violations and invasions. It is your honor, that God hath made you founders of the most famous and potent republic this day in the world; and your felicitie, that all your enemies have no other ground of quarrel, but that you are a republic: for though these Netherlanders speak it not out in words, yet they have often told you so in behaviour, etc.

Of the dominion, or ownership of the sea, two books. Written at first in Latin, and intituled, "Mare Clausum, seu De Dominio Maris." By John Selden. Translated into English; and set forth with some additional evidences and discourses, by Marchamont Nedham. Published by special command....London, printed by William Du Gard, 1652, in folio.

Marchamont Nedham was author of divers curious and very scarce tracts; and of that celebrated journal, intitled "Mercurius Politicus, comprising the summe of all intelligence; with the affairs and designs now on

your employment and negociation, wherein you were colleagues, will be removed, and you will have no more to answer for, than your own particular beha

foot in the three nations of England, Ireland, and Scotland. In the defence of the commonwealth, and for information of the people." It commenced June 9, 1649, went forth once a week, ended April 1660, and was published by authority of the council of state.

The act for the militia being passed, the command of all the forces and garrisons settled on Monk, and the fleet in his power in conjunction with Colonel Montague; the pretended parliament authorized their council of state to provide for the public safety on all emergencies, and to dispose affairs as they should think fit till the meeting of the next Parliament: which being done, and the house ready to pass the act for their own dissolution; Mr. Crew, who had been as forward as any man in beginning and carrying on the war against the late king, moved, that before they dissolved themselves, they would bear their witness against the horrid murder, as he called it, of the king. This unexpected motion prevailed with many then present to deny their concurrence to that act against the king, though not to reflect in the same manner on those who had been concerned in it and one of them concluding his discourse with protesting, that he had neither hand nor heart in that affair; Mr. Thomas Scot, who had been so much deluded by the hypocrisy of Monk, as I have already related, in abhorrence of that base spirit, said, that though he knew not where to hide his head at that time, yet he durst not refuse to own, that not only his hand but his heart also was in it: and after he had produced divers reasons to prove the justice of it, he concluded, that he should desire no greater honor in this world, than that the following inscription should be engraved on his tomb, Here lieth one who had a hand and a heart in the execution of Charles Stuart late king of England. Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow, p. 329. See also Toland's life of Milton, Edit. 2. p. 84, and 245, in the notes.

viour. I believe Sir Robert Honeywood will be industrious enough, to procure satisfaction to the merchants in the business of money; wherein he will have the assistance of Sir John Temple, to whom I refer you for that and some other things. I have little to say to your complaints of your sister Strangford's unequal returns to your affection and kindness; but that I am sorry for it, and that you are well enough served for bestowing so much of your care where it was not due, and neglecting them to whom it was due; and I hope you will be wiser hereafter. She and her husband have not yet paid the thousand pounds, whereof you are to have your part by my gift; for so, I think, you are to understand it, though your mother desired it: and if, for the payment thereof, your being in England, or in some place not far off, be necessary, as some pretend, for the sealing of some writings, I think that and other reasons sufficient to persuade you to stay a while where you are, that you may hear frequently from your friends and they from you. I am wholly against your going into Italy as yet, till more may be known of your condition, which, for the present, is hard; and I confess that I do not yet see any more than this, that either you must live in exile, or very privately here and perhaps not safely; for, though the bill of indemnity be lately passed, yet if there be any particular and great displeasure against you, as I fear there is, you may feel the effects thereof from the higher powers, and receive affronts from the inferior. Therefore you were best to stay at Hamburgh, which, for a northern situation, is a good

place and healthful. I will help you as much as I can, in discovering and informing you of what concerns you; though, as I began, so I must end, with telling you, that writing is now grown troublesome to your affectionate Leicester."

But Colonel Sydney did not continue long at Hamburgh; for he was at Frankfort upon the Main, on the 8th of September, 1660, from whence he wrote to his father, being determined then for Italy: and we find him at Rome in November following, whence he wrote likewise to his father, on the 19th of that month.

"I think the councell given me by all my friends to keepe out of England for a while, doth too clearely appeare to have bin good, by the usage my companions have already receaved, and perhaps will be yet further verified by what they will find. Nothing doth seeme more certaine to me, then that I must either have procured my safety, by such meanes as

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* May 1660, Sir Arthur Haselrigge, one of those who were esteemed to be so maliciously active in opposition to his Majesty's government, as to be afterwards excepted in the act of indemnity from any condition of pardon, had lately come to General Monk, when he perceived the revolution to hasten towards the restoration of the king, and expostulated with him about it, in reference to the security of his own condition. The General was unwilling to make him desperate, because he had at that time a regiment of horse and a regiment of foot in the garrisons of Newcastle, Tinmouth, Berwick, and Carlisle, under his government; and therefore told him, if he would quietly give up his command, and retire to his house, he would endeavour to