Monk: Or the Fall of the Republic and the Restoration of the Restoration of the Monarchy in England, in 1660

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Henry G. Bohn, 1851 - Great Britain - 256 pages
 

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Page 169 - WP VAN NESS. NATHANIEL PENDLETON, Esq. In the evening of the same day I received from him the following answer : No. XI June 26, 1804. SIR, I have communicated the letter which you did me the honour to write to me of this date, to General Hamilton.
Page 32 - When it is, let it find you ready; and in the meantime have a care to keep yourself out of their hands, who know the hurt you can do them in a good conjuncture ; and can never but suspect your affection to be as I am confident it is towards your, &c.
Page 34 - There be, that tell me, that there is a certain cunning fellow in Scotland, called George Monk, who is said to lie in wait there to introduce Charles Stuart: I pray you use your diligence to apprehend him, and send him up to me.
Page 77 - Lords ; another day he told the same person, ' in great passion, he would spend the last drop of. his blood rather than the Stuarts should ever come into England' — though 'he was in good temper again the same night.
Page 79 - ... written in the spring of 1646. In the second place, though the representatives of the nation in 1689 applied the name convention to themselves, this was not true of the body which in 1660 restored Charles II. That body was elected in accordance with writs issued, by order of the Rump Parliament, in the name of the " Keepers of the Liberties of the Commonwealth of England.
Page 46 - For my own part, I think it the duty of my place to keep the military power in obedience to the civil. It is the duty of us all to defend the parliament from which you receive your pay and commissions. I rely therefore on your obedience. If, however, any one of you dissents from this resolution, he shall have full liberty to quit the service, and receive his pass...
Page 92 - ... more knowledge of the country speedily taught them to listen somewhat less to their own aversions ; and Monk's recommendation obtained as much as could be conceded by aristocratic pride and the dignity of royal spleen. As for himself, he received next day the order of the garter,* and an admission to the council ; soon after, he was invested with the rank of lieutenant-general of the armies of the three kingdoms; and, from among the offices under the crown offered to his choice, he took that...
Page 97 - He would tell him now," he said, " what the true cause was that had made that pause in him upon the first discourse of the business, and that it would be necessary for him, after all things should be adjusted with the king and duke and Prince Rupert, that what concerned him should still remain a secret, and Prince Rupert be understood to have that command alone; for if his wife should come to know it before he had by degrees prepared her for it, she would break out into such passions as would be...
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Page 33 - England, it should be placed upon a footing of real equality with her; " then," he adds, " in case they be not quiet, I think it were just reason to plant it with English.

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