Consideration of Mr. Denzil Holles's charge of cowardice.. Of the circumstances of his last illness and death; and of the death of his daughter, Mrs. Claypoole. And of his ap- pointment of his son Richard to be his successor. Of the different parts of his character as given by Lord Clarendon and by other royalists and by Republican writers; As, his supposed enthusiasm - Hypocrisy - Defective learning and eloquence-Inhumanity. His real character; as, his affec- tionate attention to his family. Really religious. No en- thusiast or hypocrite. Exemplary, moral, and regular in his private conduct, and an enemy to vice in others. — Kind and merciful to his enemies, and to those who occasionally offended him. Courteous and affable. - Indulgent to the several religious sects. Interposition in favour of the per- secuted Waldenses. - Generous and public spirited. — His judges upright and learned, and justice impartially adminis- tered. An encourager of learning and learned men. - No enemy to innocent recreations. National reputation under his administration. — Comparison of his supposed religious - - - Richard Cromwell's accession. A parliament called. debated for the recognition of his title. acknowledgment of the House of Lords.-Dissolution of the Parliament.- Restoration of the Long Parliament.-A Com- mittee of Safety appointed. A new Great Seal. - Richard Cromwell's abdication. Henry Cromwell relinquishes the government of Ireland, and a new government appointed. Provision for Richard Cromwell, and his debts to be paid by the Parliament.-Lord Clarendon's, and Ludlow's, and Lord Broghill's accounts of those transactions. Observations upon these several accounts in justification of Richard Crom- well's conduct.-Some of his private letters. -Henry Crom- well's public and private character. His letters. His situation after the Restoration.- Letters to him from General FORMIDABLE CHARGE AGAINST CROMWELL CONSIDERED, OF THE REMOVAL SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE OF THE FACT OF THOSE NEGO TIATIONS, AND OF CROMWELL'S SINCERITY; AND OF CROMWELL'S PRIVITY TO THE KING'S ESCAPE, AND THAT HE HAD NO CONCERN IN HIS GOING TO THE ISLE OF WIGHT. SUPPOSED CAUSE OF CROMWELL'S ALLEGED DESERTION OF THE KING'S INTEREST. MODERATE TERMS OF THE INDEPENDENTS' PROPOSITIONS TO THE VOL. II. B KING. - OBSERVATIONS UPON COLONEL PRIDE'S EXCLUSION OF THE MEMBERS, TO SHOW IT TO BE THE ACT OF THE REPUBLICANS TO BRING FORWARD THE TRIAL OF THE KING, AND CROMWELL NOT CONCERNED IN IT. THE IMPROBABILITY OF CROMINFLUENCE OVER FAIRFAX, FROM WELL'S SUPPOSED WHITELOCK'S AND OTHERS' ACCOUNT OF HIS TEMPER - LUDLOW'S ACCOUNT AND JUSTIFICA AND DISPOSITION. TION OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE REPUBLICANS IN THEIR BRINGING THE KING TO TRIAL. THE next charge against Cromwell is, his supposed concern in the removal of the King from Holmby House, by Cornet Joyce. Rushworth gives a paper published by the army, entitled "A true impartial Narrative concerning the Army's Preservation of the King, to show that the Army did thereby intend the Good, Life, Property, and Liberty, of all the Commons of England." It states the grounds of this their undertaking to remove the King, to be chiefly an intimation to them of a design of some to surprise and carry him off; and which design they were able to prove, and was justly suspected to be intended by some that were with His Majesty; the execution whereof was to be followed by the raising another army to suppress them, the present army. It proceeds to state that Cornet Joyce, an appointed agent by the army, observing some circumstances in the conduct of the King and of those about him, affording ground of suspicion of the determined immediate execution of such intention, proceeded to remove the King in the manner related in this narrative. Mr. Denzil Holles, referring to the same transaction, says, at first it must seem only an act of Mr. Joyce, Cromwell protesting he knew nothing of it, though, adds Mr. Holles, he was the man who appointed it to be done, as appears, he says, by some passages taken out of some of their own authors, as one that calls him Sirrah Niho, and others. He (Mr. Holles) proceeds, - that Sir Thomas Fairfax also, in a letter to the House, professes the same for himself as in the presence of God, with a large undertaking for the rest of his officers and the body of the army. And perhaps, says he, he said true; I would fain be so charitable as to believe it; nor indeed do I think the good man is privy to all their plots; he must have no more than what they are pleased to carve and chew for him, but must swallow all, and own them when they come abroad. Here then, says he, they have the King; Joyce drives away the guards; forces Colonel Greaves to fly, whom else they threatened to kill, for no man's life must stand in their way (murder being no crime in the visible saints); carries away His Majesty and the commissioners that attend him prisoners, and immediately sends up a letter to |