The History of England : From the Accession of James I to the Elevation of the House of Hanover 5
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Liidlo-M, p. 317. f Monk, in a letter which he wrote to Sir Arthur Haflerig, U 4 oa ngB- HISTORY OF ENGLAND. Ann. 1660. f he fecluded members, who had taken every Monkaflifts opportunity to embroil the government of the JJ|jJ"J"/j^ Parliament, and, headed by the impetuous and refuming inflexible Mr. Prynne, had twice endeavored to their feats. Qbtj-yj^e themfelves into their houfe, and had obftinately adhered to their pretenfions of right to feats in their affembly, were not idle in making the ...bed advantage of the prefent op- portunity, to bring thofe pretenfions into reality. They had been the inftruments by which Monk had operated on the affections of the public, the original movers of the feditious conduct of the city ; and now that matters were drawing towards a cataftrophe, Monk, on the pretence of anfwering the vexatious importunity of the fecluded members, and to give them fatisfaftion touching the juftice of their exdufion, of which he owned himfelf to be thoroughly convinced, prevailed on fome of the members of Parliament to give them a meeting at his houfe; where, inftead of entering into fair debate, the fecluded members, who were fure of Monk's counte- nance, refleded fo fcurriloufly on the proceed- ings of the Parliament fmce their exclufion, on the thirteenth of February, wherein he calls the proceed- ings of the houfe violent, and complains of a rumor which had gone abroad, of orders fent for the drawing together the dif- perfed forces, and of Haflerig's correfpondence with Vane and Lambert, calls God to witnefs, that a commonwealth is the defire of his foul j that the Lord affifting, fuch defire (hall be witnefled by the adions of his life, in the fettling the empire in a free ilate, without a king, fingle perfon, or houfe of Lords.
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