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authorities, and doubtless hoped at the Restoration in 1660, that 
he would be compensated for his loss of property. But the 
Convention to which Prynne was returned dispelled all such 
hopes, and Chapman as many others, who had similarly suffered 
for their adherence to Charles I., no doubt declared that the Act 
passed by the Convention dealing with confiscated property, was 
a “Bill of Indemnity for the King’s enemies and of Oblivion for 
his friends.” 
Prynne accuses Chapman of active disloyalty in frustrating 
various attempts to reinstate Charles previous to the Restoration 
of 166c. Chapman seems to have prevented an attempt to 
surprise Bath by the Royalists in 1659 from being successful, and 
by his action probably did their cause service by saving useless 
bloodshed. An item in the Ch, Ac. for 1659 probably refers to 
this plot :— 
“Item ‘paid for 2 quarts of Canarie 
Drunke by Mr Mayor (John Pearce) 
Mr Clift and Mr Parker when the 
Riseing was on Lansdowne per Bill oo — o4 — 08” 
The same good hater (Prynne) also states that Chapman (true 
Englishman) had declared, very probably at his own Tavern 
“the Sunne,” that if Charles ever returned ‘with a foreign Force, 
I will be the first man will draw my Sword against him” “for 
my part I am for Cromwell.” This last remark attributed to 
Chapman, raises an interesting point. On the succession of 
Richard Cromwell in September, 1658, ‘‘many who had rejected 
the authority of his father submitted peaceably to the new 
Protector.” It is evident from the Ch. Ac, that in 1658 “ The 
Lord Protector Richard Cromwell” spent some considerable time 
in Bath and was high in favor with its Citizens. It is not 
improbable that during this visit he lodged at one of Chapman’s 
houses, perhaps at his tavern the “Sunne” and that as many 
another Royalist of the time, Chapman was attracted to and 
supported the authority of Richard Cromwell. . 
