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I have heard him say several times, that his love 

 to his gracious master King Charles the Second, was 

 above the love he bore to his wife, children, and all 

 his posterity, nay to his own life: and when, since 

 his return into England, I answered him, that I 

 observed his gracious master did not love him so well 

 as he loved him ; he replied, that he cared not whether 

 His Majesty loved him again or not; for he was 

 resolved to love him. 



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I asking My Lord one time, what kind of fate it was, 

 that restored our gracious King, Charles the Second, 

 to his throne ? He answered, it was a blessed kind of 

 fate. I replied, that I had observed a perfect con- 

 trariety between the fortunes of His royal father, of 

 blessed memory, and him ; for as there was a division 

 amongst the generality of the people, in the reign of 

 King Charles the First, tending to his destruction; so 

 there was a general combination and agreement 

 between them in King Charles the Second his restaura- 

 tion ; and as there was a general malice amongst the 

 people against the father to depose him; so there 

 was a general love for the son to enthrone him. My 

 Lord answered, I had observed something, but not 

 all; for, said he, there was a necessity for the people 

 to desire and restore King Charles the Second; but 

 there was no necessity to murder King Charles the 

 First. For the kingdom being through so many 

 alterations and changes of government, divided into 

 several factions and parties, was at last hurried into 

 such a confusion, that it was impossible in that 

 manner to subsist, or hold out any longer; which 



