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" I am endeavouring to get to London , so that the conditions may be such as a gentleman may own , and that the rebels may acknowledge me king, being not without hope that I shall be able so to draw either the presbyterians or independents to side with... "
Memoirs of the court of king Charles the first - Page 478
by Lucy Aikin - 1833
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Life of Oliver Cromwell to the death of Charles the first

John Richard Andrews (barrister.) - 1870 - 482 pages
...in a private letter to Bigby, in which his Majesty concludes with the following pithy sentence : ' Being not without hope that I shall be able so to draw either the Presbyterians or the Independents to side with me for extirpating one another, then I shall be really king again.' But...
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A History of England from the First Invasion of the Romans to the ..., Volume 1

John Lingard - Great Britain - 1871 - 306 pages
...Scotch Camp, to raise Treaties and Caballings there, had said, " — endeavouring to get to London ; being not " without hope that I shall be able so to draw either the Pres" byterians or the Independents to side with me for extirpating " one another, that I shall be...
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Letters and Speeches

Oliver Cromwell - 1873 - 314 pages
...Scotch Camp, to raise Treaties and Caballings there, had said, " — endeavouring to get to London ; being not " without hope that I shall be able so to draw either the Pres" byterians or the Independents to side with me for extirpating " one another, that I shall be...
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King and Commonwealth, a history of the Great rebellion [by B.M. Gardiner ...

Bertha Meriton Gardiner - Great Britain - 1874 - 404 pages
...the same to the Eoyalists. " I am not without hope," he wrote about this time, " that I shall be able to draw either the Presbyterians or Independents to side with me for extirpating the one or the other — that I shall be really king again." But the distrust he had engendered was...
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The constitutional history of England, from the accession of Henry vii. to ...

Henry Hallam - 1876 - 488 pages
...lor my own particular resolution," he says in a letter to Digby, March 26, 1646. " it is this. I ain endeavouring to get to London, so that the conditions...presbyterians or independents to side with me for extirpating the one or the other, that I shall be really king again." Carte's Ormond, iii. 462 ; quoted by Mr....
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The Constitutional History of England: From the Accession of Henry VII. to ...

Henry Hallam - Constitutional history - 1876 - 486 pages
...resolution," he says in a letter to Digby, March 26, 1646. "it Is this. I am endeavouring to get to London, BO that the conditions may be such as a gentleman may...king; being not without hope that I shall be able BO to draw either the presbyterians or independents to side with me for extirpating the one or the...
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The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII. to ...

Henry Hallam - Constitutional history - 1876 - 756 pages
...endeavoring to get to London, so that the conditione may bo such as a gentleman may own, and tbat tho rebels may acknowledge me king; being not without...draw either the Presbyterians or Independents to side frith me for extirpating the one or the other, that I •hall be really king again." — Carte's Ormond,...
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The Illustrated History of England

Thomas Keightley - Great Britain - 1876 - 1148 pages
...intrigued with all these parties. " I am not without hope," he writes to Digby, " that 1 shall be able to draw either the presbyterians or independents to...side with me for extirpating one the other ; that 1 should be really king again." He used Montreuil, the French envoy, as his agent in his dealings with...
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King and Commonwealth: A History of Charles I. and the Great Rebellion

Bertha Meriton Cordery Gardiner, James Surtees Phillpotts, B. Cordery (Meriton) - Great Britain - 1876 - 420 pages
...the same to the Royalists. " I am not without hope," he wrote about this time, " that I shall be able to draw either the Presbyterians or Independents to side with me for extirpating the other — that I shall be really king again." But the distrust he had engendered was too deep :...
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English history for the use of public schools, Volume 2

James Franck Bright - Great Britain - 1876 - 532 pages
...the good faith of these two parties in the plan which he had opened to Digby, being, as he said, " not without hope that I shall be able so to draw either Presbyterians or Independents to side with me for extirpating one another, that I shall be really King...
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