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., VOL. III. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS. MDCCCXXVII. Clar. Press. THE CONTINUATION OF THE LIFE OF EDWARD EARL OF CLARENDON. THOUGH the parliament at Oxford had pre- 1665. served that excellent harmony that the king had proposed, and hardly wished any thing in which they had not concurred, insomuch as never parliament so entirely sympathised with his majesty; and though a it passed more acts for his honour and security than any other had ever done in so short a session yet it produced a precedent of a very unhappy nature, the circumstances whereof in the present were unusual and pernicious, and the consequences in the future very mischievous, and therefore not unfit to be set out at large. to remove The lord Arlington and sir William Coventry, An attempt closely united in the same purposes, and especially the treaagainst the chancellor, had a great desire to find surer. some means to change the course and method of the king's counsels; which they could hardly do whilst though] Not in MS. b produced] introduced VOL. III. B |