THE

CONTINUATION

Of the LIFE of

EDWARD Earl of CLARENDON,

LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND,

AND

CHANCELLOR of the UNIVERSITY of OXFORD.

Being a CONTINUATION OF

His HISTORY of the GRAND REBELLION,
from the RESTORATION to his
BANISHMENT in 1667.

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

Printed from his ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS, given
to the UNIVERSITY of OXFORD by
the Heirs of the late EARL of

CLARENDON,

Ne quid Falfi dicere audeat, ne quid Veri non audeat. Cicero,

TIBKYKA

THE

CONTINUATION

Of the LIFE of

EDWARD Earl of CLARENDON, &c.

(1)

Molins, 8th Day of June, 1672.

Reflections upon the most material Paffages which happened after the King's Restoration to the Time of the Chancellor's Banishment; out of which his Children, for whofe Information they are only collected, may add fome important Paffages to bis Life, as the true Caufe of his Misfortunes.

T

HE eafy and glorious Reception of the The Author't King, in the Manner that hath been men- Preface tioned, without any other Conditions than

what had been frankly offered by himself in his Declaration and Letters from Breda; the Parliament's cafting themselves in a Body at his Feet, in the Minute of his Arrival at Whitehall, with all the Profeffions of Duty and Submiffion imaginable; and no Man having Authority there, but They who had either eminently ferved the late King, or who were fince grown up out of their Nonage from fuch Fathers, and had throughly manifefted their faft Fidelity to his present Majefty; the reft who had been enough criminal, fhewing more Animofity towards the fevere Punishment of thofe, who having more Power in the Vol. II. B

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