The History of the Rebellion And Civil Wars in England 1, Pt. 1
The History of the Rebellion And Civil Wars in England 1, Pt. 1
Edward Hyde Clarendon
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129 tion, the King concluded that it was not a good fea- fon to promote that bufinefs. He had paffed two or three afts of Parliament, which had much leffened the authority and dependence of the nobility and great men, and incenfed and difpofed them proportionably to crofs and oppofe any prppo- lition, which would be moft grateful ; and that over- thwart humour was enough difcovercd to rule in the breafls of many, who made the greateft profeffions. Yet this was not the obftrudlion which diverted... the King : the party that was avcrfe from the thing, and abhorred any thought of conformity, could not have been powerful enough to have ftopped the progrefs of it; the mifchief was, that they who moft.defired it, and were moft concerned to promote it, were the men who ufed all their credit to divert the prefent attempt- ing it ; and the Biihops themfelves, whofe intereft was to be moft advanced thereby, applied all their coimfels fecretly to have the matter more maturely conlidered ; and the whole defign was never confulted but privately, and only fome few of the great men of that nation, and fome of the Bifhops, advifed with by the King, and the Bifhop of London ; it being mani- feft: enough, that as the finifhing that great affair muft be very grateful to England, fo the Englifh muft not appear to have a hand in the contriving and pro-.
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