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HiiSvji^i Churacter of Lord Claraidun. 



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arily biou£;lit wltliin the channel 

 againe, they had an eye sometimes 

 towards him who had putt some of them 

 into their places, and had shewed them 

 the work tiiey had to doe, they were 

 not sure it was imjwssible he miglit 

 come backe againe, and tiiey weva wil- 

 ling to appear to liave laboured some- 

 thing in his absence," nor did that de- 

 solation and disraall invasion upon in- 

 undation into the very essence and 

 forme of our government, of which we 

 have had the sad prospect tliis last year, 

 breake in upon us, till it had pleased 

 God to remove him as far out of the 

 world as he had done before out of this 

 nation, when all the checks of con- 

 science being removed, as they will 

 quickly be from those who are onely 

 eye-servers and pleasers, there appear- 

 ed a totall defection in all sorts of men, 

 ecclesiasticall and secular, from their 

 knowne duty to God, their country, 

 and their friend, and such a friend who 

 had beeu so insfrumentall under God, 

 and by God's blessing, in restoring 

 them to all their livings, digiiitys, 

 honours, estates, plefisures, and proiitts 

 which they have enjoyed since the 

 K. happy restoration ; I say had been so 

 iustrumentall if by no other advice or 

 rounsell, at least by preserving the 

 K. entire in his reputation and creditt 

 which they who have come in since, 

 have but too much sullyed and lessene^l 

 and by choosing rather to owne and 

 take upon himxelfe the faults and mis- 

 earriagci of other m-n * * then ex- 

 po<ed his all-sacred name to the indig- 

 nitys whicii the policy and good nature 

 of some gentlemen since have loaded it 

 with to preserve themselves. 



And now that 1 may not seem to have 

 laid a burden upon other men too heavy 

 for them to bsar, wliich I would not 

 touch with one of my owne fingers, I 

 will proceed as impartially as a u)au can 

 doe with himselfe, in what relates to my 

 owne particular : and in the first place, 

 I cannot but accuse myselfe of being 

 .too earnest, and overweening in my owne 



• Tlie following words are erased in iLh 

 MS. " Hilt when it pleaseil God to remove 

 bini ns fnr oul of the world as Le liad done 

 before out of tLis natiou, all clieclcs of oon- 

 •oience heiug removed, as they will be quickly 

 out of iliose who are onlj' eye- servers au'l 

 pleaders ; ihcti ranic thw di«mal1 inundation of 

 which wi; had tht? sad i)fos|ieet ihi^ last year, 

 and the loiall ded'clion in all sons of nmn, 

 thif hisho,is, the jndijey, tins eoiiiliris, and 

 tlie ciiizons from iho duty to Uod, lUeir 

 c<jiinlry, and llieir Irii'nd.'' 



MoM'iii.Y Mau, No. ;ir)i. 



thoughts, in persuading him to provide 

 for the security of his ]i'ersone by goeing 

 out of England ; but this opinion 1 have 

 now of this at!aire, would give one much 

 more trouble. If I thought my advice 

 had prevailed to bring it to passe, I 

 know very well there were a great many 

 others wiser and more experienced then 

 myselfe, that were of the same opinion, 

 and I know too that it was allwaiss 

 against his owne judgment; that for a 

 very long time he could not endure to 

 hear of it, nor to leave his innocency 

 suspected by witlidrawing of himselfe ; 

 and there was a time, some good long 

 time after his impeachment was in the 

 House of Lords, that he stood firme to 

 his owne ii>fl2;ment, which I am since 

 convinced was the best, and did exi)ect 

 two or three days together, to have been 

 sent for either to the House of Lords, 

 or to ha%'e been committed, and he was 

 resolved to have borne either with mo- 

 deration and courage; afterwards, in- 

 deetl, when things grew higher between 

 the t\vo houses, and that there was a 

 kind of infatuation upon all his friends, 

 or those that pretended to be soe, to 

 combine togethei to represent to him 

 the necessity of his departure, and that 

 the Duke himselfe would have it soe, 

 as a thing as requisite to his safety and 

 quiet as his owue ; he yielded to their 

 importunity, and I do not know any 

 man in his circumstances that would 

 have depended upon his owue conduct, 

 against the concurrent advice of so 

 many friends, wise and honest as he 

 thought them, who went abroad and 

 were in the counsells and heard and 

 saw every thing ; however, I say, I doe 

 now, as I stand now informed, thinke 

 I was in the wrong, for advising his 

 goeing away, though it was long be- 

 fore I was of this opinion, and that upon 

 severall examinations of myselfe upon 

 this particular, I have often declared, 

 I had never yett repented that advice; 

 and that if he had remained here and 

 not have concerned himselfe in the 

 dispute, between the two houses about 

 him, and had at last been brought to a 

 tryall, his innocency would have ap- 

 peared beyound all pretence or shadow 

 of guilt, to the confusion of iiis accusers, 

 how strongly soever they ha<l been 

 abetted ; and if he had not been brought 

 to it, as I know loo it was at that time 

 very strongly apprehended he would 

 U(tver be, suflered to come sooni; to n tnj- 

 ull, but that he should l)e taken by force 

 out of his house and clapt up in prison, 

 aud there have layn ; /jtd I cannot but 

 S thiulio 



