i8o HISTORY OF THE [BOOK. u. 



But although men of this stamp were silently per- 

 mitted to fix themselves in the island, the general body 



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both of the army and people caught the reviving flame 

 of loyalty, and sineerely participated in the national tri- 

 umph on the king's return. The restored monarch, 

 on his part, not only overlooked their past transgres- 

 sions, but prudently forebore also to awaken their 

 jealousy, by inquiring after any of those obnoxious 

 characters to whom they had afforded protection. To 

 conciliate the affections of the colonists, whose valour 

 had annexed so important an appendage to his domi- 

 nions, the king even confirmed their favourite gene- 

 ral in his command; appointing D'Oyley, by a com- 

 mission which bore date the 13th of February 1661, 

 chief governor of the island. He was ordered, at the 

 same time, to release the army from military sub- 

 ordination, to erect courts of judicature,, and with 

 the advice of a council to be elected by the inlivbi- 



after the restoration unnoticed and unmolested. Waite and Blagrove are 

 reckoned of the number, and General Harrison was earnestly pressed to 

 follow their example ; but, suitably to his character, he gloried in the igno- 

 minious death that awa'ted him. After his execution, his children fixed 

 their fortunes in this island, where some of his descendants, in the fe- 

 male line, are still living, in good credit, in the parish of St. Andrew. 

 It is reported also, that the remains of President Bradshaw were interred 

 in Jam.iicaj and I observe in a splendid book, intitled Memoirs of Tho- 

 mas Hollis, an epitaph which is said to have been inscribed on a cannon 

 that was placed on the president's grave j but it is, to my own knowledge, 

 a modern composition. President Bradshaw died in London, in Novem- 

 ber 1659, and had a magnificent funeral in Westminster abbey. A son 

 of Scott, the regicide, fixed himself in this island., and settled the planta- 

 tion called Y S in St Elizabeth, 



