1651-2.] OF THE MARQUIS OF WORCESTER. 209 



CHAPTER XIV. 



ITIS RETURN TO ENGLAND IMPRISONMENT, AND LIBERA 

 TION HIS &quot;CENTURY&quot; PECUNIARY DIFFICULTIES 



PETITIONS AT CHARLES THE SECOND S CORONATION 

 LORD HERBERT. 



WE find that in the House of Commons, on the 14th 

 of March, 1648, u The persons reported to be banished, 

 and their estates confiscated, being fourteen in number, 

 were every one particularly put to the question;&quot; when 

 it was resolved, &c. &quot; That Charles Stuart, eldest son of 

 the late King, be one of that number ; also James Stuart, 

 his second son ;&quot; then follow the Earls of Bristol, and 

 Newcastle, along with Witherington, Digby, Musgrave, 

 Langdale, Greenvill, and Dodington. After which it 

 was 



&quot; Kesolved, &c. That the Earl of Worcester be one 

 other of that number.&quot; Likewise were added the names 

 of Winter, Culpepper, Byron, the Duke of Buckingham ; 

 and finally, &quot; all that have been plotting, designing, or 

 assisting, in the Irish rebellion,&quot; shall be proscribed, as 

 enemies and traitors to the Commonwealth ; and shall 

 &quot; die without mercy, wherever they shall be found within 

 the limits of this nation ; and their estates employed for 

 the use of the Commonwealth.&quot; 57 



It appears, on the authority of Dr. White Kennet, 58 

 the historian, that while Charles the Second was a 

 refugee in the Court of France, the King of France, 

 Louis XIV., was in himself disposed not only to assist, 



57 Jo. H. C. Vol. vi. p. 165. 58 Kenuet. 



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