Memorials of the Civil War: Comprising the Correspondence of the Fairfax Family with the Most Distinguished Personages Engaged in that Memorable Contest. Now First Published from the Original Manuscripts, Volume 2Robert Bell R. Bentley, 1849 - Great Britain |
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affectionate amongst ANNE HYDE answer Appleton Arthington assure believe Bentley's Collection Brian Fairfax Church Colonel command Commons council Cromwell declared Denton deponent desire doubt Duchess Duchess of Buckingham Duke of Buckingham Duke of York Earl endeavour enemy engagement England faithful father favour foot forces friends give Gumble hands hath hear Holles hope horse House humble servant Ireland King King's kingdom LADY FAIRFAX Lambert Lambert's army late letter liberty London Lord Fairfax lordship Majesty Majesty's marriage ment Monk Monk's moss-troopers never night Nun Appleton occasion officers party persons pleased pray prayer present Prince prisoner received regiment Restoration Richard Cromwell RIGHT HONOURABLE Royalists Rump Scotland sent Sir Charles Lucas Sir John Sir Richard Browne soldiers tell thereof things Thomas Lord Thomas Lord Fairfax thought told town troops trouble unto write writs Yorkshire
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Page 249 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 268 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies— alas!
Page 82 - God, the original of all just power: . . . that the commons of England, in parliament assembled, being chosen by, and representing, the people, have the supreme power in this nation: . . . that whatsoever is enacted, or declared for law, by the commons, in parliament assembled, hath the force of law; and all the people of this nation are concluded thereby, although the consent and concurrence of king, or house of peers be not had thereunto'.
Page 207 - I could at one time tell thirty-one fires. In King-street seven or eight ; and all along burning, and roasting, and drinking for rumps ; there being rumps tied upon sticks and carried up and down.
Page 207 - King-street seven or eight ; and all along burning, and roasting, and drinking for rumps ; there being rumps tied upon sticks and carried up and down. The butchers at the May Pole in the Strand rang a peal with their knives when they were going to sacrifice their rump. On Ludgate Hill there was one turning of the spit that had a rump tied upon it, and another basting of it. Indeed it was past imagination, both the greatness and the suddenness of it. At one end of the street you would think there...
Page 125 - Though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him : But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
Page 17 - ... out of his window ; and that he had a cord of silk with him whereby to slip down, but his breast was so big the bar would not give him passage. This was done in one of the dark nights about a fortnight ago. A Gentleman with you led him the way, and slipped down. The Guard, that night, had some quantity of wine with them. The same party assures that there is aquafortis gone down from London, to remove that obstacle which hindered; and that the same design is to be put in execution in the next...
Page 206 - In Cheapside there was a great many bonfires, and Bow bells and all the bells in all the churches as we went home were a-ringing. Hence we went homewards, it being about ten at night. But the common joy that was everywhere to be seen! The number of bonfires! there being fourteen between St. Dunstan's and Temple Bar, and at Strand Bridge I could at one time tell thirty-one fires.
Page 289 - We have here a mighty work upon our hands, no less than the conversion of three kingdoms, and by that perhaps the utter subduing of a pestilent heresy, which has a long time domineered over a great part 'of this northern world. There were never such hopes of success, since the days of queen Mary, as now in our days. God has given us a prince...
Page 289 - God has given us a prince," meaning the duke, " who is become (may I say a miracle) zealous of being the author and instrument of so glorious a work ; but the opposition we are sure to meet with is also like to be great: so that it imports us to get all the aid and assistance we can.