THE LIFE

OF

EDWARD EARL OF CLARENDON,

LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND,

AND

CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. CICERO.

OF

EDWARD EARL OF CLARENDON,

LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND,

AND

CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD:

IN WHICH IS INCLUDED

A CONTINUATION

OF HIS

HISTORY OF THE GRAND REBELLION.

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

A NEW EDITION,

EXHIBITING A FAITHFUL COLLATION OF THE ORIGINAL MS.,

WITH ALL THE SUPPRESSED PASSAGES.

VOL. II.

OXFORD,

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

MDCCCXXVII.

5445

45-140

3494-8

A

860. furly 13.
itsman Request.

THE

CONTINUATION

OF

THE LIFE

OF

EDWARD EARL OF CLARENDON.

с

meets,

speech.

ALL this was done between the dissolution of the 1661. parliament in December, and the assembling the The new other in May following. And upon the first day of parliament its coming together, which was upon the eighth of May 8. May, the very day b that his majesty had been proclaimed the year before, he told them "that he had The king's "deferred it a week, that they might meet upon "that day, for the memory of the former day." The king, after some gracious expressions of his confidence in them, told them "that they would "find what method he thought best for their pro"ceeding, by two bills which he had caused to be "provided for them, which were for confirmation of "all that had been enacted in the last meeting;" and repeated what he had said to them when he