THE

HISTORY OF THE REBELLI

AND

CIVIL WARS IN ENGLAND

BEGUN IN THE YEAR 1641,

BY

EDWARD, EARL OF CLARENDON.

RE-EDITED FROM

A FRESH COLLATION OF THE ORIGINAL MS. IN THE BODLEIAN LIB

WITH MARGINAL DATES AND OCCASIONAL NOTES,

BY

W. DUNN MACRAY, M.A., F.S.A.

In Six Volumes.

VOL. VI.

(Books XV and XVI, and Index.)

Oxford

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

M DCCC.LXXXVIII

A TRUE HISTORICAL NARRATION

OF THE

REBELLION AND CIVIL WARS IN
ENGLAND.

BOOK XV.

1. 'THE King remained at Cullen above two years, contend-1655 ing with the rigour of his fortune with great temper and magnanimity, whilst all the princes of Europe seemed to contend amongst themselves who should most eminently forget and neglect him, and whilst Cromwell exercised all imaginable tyranny over those nations who had not been sensible enough of the blessings they enjoyed under his majesty's [father's] peaceable and mild government; so that he might have enjoyed some of that comfort and pleasure which Velleius Paterculus says that Marius and Carthage had when his banishment reduced him to end his life in the ruins of that city, as he did; cum Marius aspiciens Carthaginem, illa intuens Marium, alter alteri possent esse solatio; whilst he refreshed himself with the memory of his greatness when he overthrew that great and famous city, and she, again, delighted to behold her destroyer expelled from his country, which he had served so eminently, and forced, forsaken of all men, to end his life and to be buried in her ashes. If the King's nature could have been delighted with such reflections, he might have had