him from the Table, and killed him at his Feet, faying, Thus dies one of the Regicides, and thereupon they all put up their Swords, and walked leifurely out of the Houfe, leaving those who were in the Room with much Amazment, and • Confternation. Though all who were engaged in the Enterprize went quietly away, and fo out of Town; infomuch as no one of them was ever apprehended or called in Queftion: Yet they kept not their own Counsel fo well (believing they had done a very Heroick Act) but that it was generally known, that they were all Scotifhmen, and moft of them Servants and Dependants of the Marquis of Mountrofe. Dr. (a) Perinchief calls Dorilaus a German Bandito; But Mr. Wood fays (b) that he was a Dutchman born, originally a Schoolmafter, and afterwards Doctor of the Civil Law at Leyden: Whence coming into England upon no good account, was entertained by Fulk Lord Brook, and by him appointed to read a Hiftory Lecture in Cambridge, which he was about to found fome Years before his Death. But in his very firft Lectures, decrying Monarchy, was upon the Complaint of Dr. John Cufin, Master of Peter-Houfe, to the Vicechancellor, (which afterwards came to his Majefty's knowledge) filenced. Afterwards, he became Judge Advocate in the King's Army, in one of his Expeditions againft the Scots, Advocate in the Army against the King under Robert Earl of Effex, afterwards under Sir Thomas Fairfax, and at length one of the Judges under the Court of Admiralty, aud an Affiftant in drawing up,

(a) Life of Charles I. p. 83.

(b) sithenæ Oxon. 2d edit. vol. 3. p. 339. Bishop Kennet obferves, (Complete Hiftory of England, vol. 3. p. 192. 2d edit. See likewife Walker's Hiflory of Independency, part 2. p. 167.) That Murmurs and Complaints were fo high, that the Powers in being made an Act May 14. to declare it Treason to affirm the Government to be tyrannical, ufurped, or unlawful, or to endeavour to alter the faid Government, or to kill any Member of Parliament or Judge in their Duty."

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and managing the Charge againft King Charles I. in order to his Execution. I fay, (c) Dorilaus did fall, as Lifle afterwards did.' 'Tis a pity that they both of them did not meet with the common Fate of Traytors, to be hanged at Tyburn, and buried under the Gallows.

N. Ibid. Both the Parliament, and the States of Holland refented this base Action fo highly, that the young King thought proper to remove into France.

That it was much refented by the Rump, is not to be queftioned. (d) For after this defperate Attempt came to their Knowledge, they became fo much enraged, that they refolved to facrifice the Life of a certain (e) Royalist of Note (Sir Lewis Dyves) then in their Cuftody, and they had certainly done it, had he not made a timely Efcape. Afterward they caufed the Body of Doriflaus to be conveyed into England, and to be buried with (f) Solemnity in the Abby Church of Westminster, on the 14th of June following, where continuing till September 1661, was then taken up with the Bodies of the Crom• wellians and burried in a Hole in St. Margaret's Church-yard." But that the States of Holland equally refented his Death, I cannot fo easily believe. (g) They had bravely remonftrated by

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(c) Two hundred Pounds per Annum fettled for Life by the Rump upon Doriflaus's Son, 500l. a piece to his Daughters, and 250%. order'd for his Funeral, Whitelock's Memorials, p. 401, 402.

(d) Wad's Albena Oxon. Vol. 2. p. 339. With equal Juftice might Maffianello the Fisherman, a mock King of Naples, have refented fuch Ufage from the Viceroy of Naples, had one of his Servants cut off any of the mock King's Meffengers during his ten Days Kingship, and in time of Treats though (like Doriflaus) he had been one of the moft defperate of Rebels.

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(e) Sir Arthur Hazlerig (Walker's Hiftory of Independency, part 2. p. 173.) moved, That fix Gentlemen of the beft Quality in England [Royalifts] might be put to death, as a Revenge for Doriflaus, and to deter Men from the like Attempts hereafter.'

(f) There was an order (fays Whitelock p. 407.) for the Members of the Houfe, and of the Council of State, and the Lords Commiffioners of the Great Seal, and Judges to attend his Funeral.'

(g) See Remonftrance in French copied from the Original, with a Tranflation, and other Papers relating thereto. Appendix No. 1, 2, 3, 4,

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their two Embaffadors against the King's Death, and I cannot be easily induced to think, that after that, they could refent the Death of one of his Execrable Murtherers. Lord Clarendon owns (b) • That it cannot be denied that the States pro⚫ceeded upon these Disorders, with which they had not been accustomed, with great Gravity, • and more than ordinary Refpect to the King; they • were highly offended at what was paft, and fenfible what Expoftulations and Clamour for Juftice they must expect and sustain from England, and what Reproaches they must undergo for fuffering all those that had been guilty of fuch a Crime to efcape the Minifters of Juftice; which could not but be imputed to them as a great Scandal to their Government; yet they proceeded very flowly in their (i) Inquifition, and with fuch Formalities as were ufual, (and which could bring no Prejudice to the Offenders, who were either gone out of their Dominions or concealed themfelves in other Towns where the fame Formalities were to be used, if they were discovered) and without fo much • Reflection upon the King, as if they believed the guilty Perfon had any Relation to his Ser

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And upon his defiring an Audience, which they readily granted the King (Lord Clarendon obferves, id. ib.) was received in the fame manner he had • been formerly, and being conducted into the Room of Council, after a fhort Compliment he delivered a Paper to them, which he defired might be read, and that he might receive their Advice thereupon as foon as they pleased.

5. See likewife Perinchief's Life of Cb. 1. p. 85. Whitelock p. 374. Sewell's History of the Quakers p. 20.

(b) Hiftory of the Rebellion. vol. 3. p. 229.

(i) Mr. Heath (Chronicle p. 236.) obferves, That though the States pretended a Hue and cry, yet the People were generally well fatisfied, and ap6 plauded the Execution.

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The Memorial contained in the firft place, his • Majesty's Acknowledgments of the Civilities he had received there, and his Defire, that by them the States General (who were not at that time affembled) might be informed of fuch his Majefty's Sense of their Kindness; especially of the full and high (k) Deteftation they had expreffed of the impious and unparallel'd Murder of his Royal

() 'Tis remarkable that the Dutch were the only Foreign State that remonftrated against the King's Death, or at leaft interceded for his Life; which must be acknowledged to their eternal Honour, by all Perfons who have the leaft Grain of Loyalty left, or Regard to the Memory of King Charles the Firft, who (without Flattery) was one of the bett Kings that ever fwayed the English or any other Sceptre. Nay the Dutch behaved with great Generofity towards his Son when Prince of Wales: For in September 1648, (Whitelock's Memorials 335) When it was difputed amongst the States, whether they should entertain him in a publick way, or make 'an Allowance p. diem, they agreed to allow him a thousand Gilders ་ a day.' And in his Return to England, we are told, (Mercurius Publicus num. 22. p. 341, 342, penes me.) That the States of Holland fupped bare before his Majefty; one of the Courses was ferved up to him all in Gold Plate, which was afterwards prefented to his Majefty, valued at 60,000l.That they prefented his Majefty with a Bed that coft 7000 1. Ster•ling, and Table Linen to the value of 10,000l. and 600,000 Gilders. The Treatment of the King, and all who belonged to his Service (fays Mr. Echard, Hift. vol. 2. p. 903.) at the Charge of the States, during the time of his Abode there, was incredibly noble and fplendid; the Expence of which and the Prefents amounted to 100,000 1. and their Joy was fo manifeft that it could only be exceeded by his own Subjects. They < prefented him likewife by their Ambaffador at Whitehall, the fame Year, (Mercurius Publicus, num. 46. p. 741.) with an extraordinary Crimson • embroidered Velvet Bed, Cloth of State, Chairs and Stools fuitable, worth ⚫ very many thousands of Pounds; and alfo an excellent Collection of Pictures of the most famous, ancient, and modern Mafters, with a great number ⚫ of Statues of white Marble of excellent Sculpture.

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The Emperor of Ruffia, (Heath's Chron. p. 255.) indeed no fooner heard of the King's Death, but he immediately commanded all the English to depart his Dominions, and was hardly perfuaded (having firft fecured their Goods) to give them leave to ftay a while in Arch-Angel, his only Port of Trade, whither from his Court and City of Mofco he had driven them. had proferred to the Lord Culpeper (his Majefties Ambaffador) to have given him all the English Estates: But he declining it, and telling the Emperor the King conceived very well of thofe his Subjects, he very frankly lent the King 20,000l. with a Proteftation of his farther Good Will if he had not been fo greatly engaged in a War at home.

The King of Denmark likewife fent an Ambaffador to King Charles the Second to offer him his Affiftance, (Whitelock's Memorials, p. 390) But according to Lord Clarendon (Hift. of the Rebellion, vol. 3. p. 203.) Amongst the generality of the Princes of Christendom, there was scarce a Murmur at the King's Death.--They made haft to fend over, that they might get Shares in the Spoils of a murdered Monarch. Cardinal M zarin fent now to be admitted as a Merchant to traffick in the P

Royal Father of blessed Memory, their fast and unfhaken Ally, by which the Forms and Rules of all kinds of Government were no lefs violated and diffolved than that of Monarchy: That he came to inform them, that he did intend, in a fhort time, to difpofe of his Perfon as might with God's Bleffing moft probably advance his Affairs; and that for the better doing thereof, and that he might in fo important an • Affair receive their particular Advice, he should impart to them the true State and Condition of his feveral Dominions, that he needed not inform them of the deplorable Condition of his Kingdom of England, where the Hearts and • Affections of his Loyal Subjects were fo depreffed, and kept under by the Power and Cruelty. of those who had murdered their late Sovereign, and who every day gave fresh and bloody • Inftances of their Tyranny to fright Men from their Allegiance, that at prefent no Man could believe that miferable Kingdom could be fit • for his Majefty to truft his Perfon in: That in Scotland it is very true, that his Majefty

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chafe of the rich Goods and Jewels of the Crown. Of which he purchased. the rich Beds, Hangings, and Carpets which furnished his Palace at Paris. The King of Spain from the Beginning of the Rebellion, kept Don Alonzo ⚫de Cardenas who had been his Ambaffador to the King ftill refiding at London.— As foon as this difmal Murder was over, that Ambaffador who had always a great Malignity towards the King, bought as many Pictures and other precious Goods appertaining to the Crown as being fent in Ships to the Corunna in Spain, were carried from thence to Madrid, upon eighteen Mules. Christina Queen of Sweden purchafed the Choice of all the Medals and Jewels, and fome Pictures of great Price, and received the Parliament's Agent with great Joy and Pomp, and made an Alliance with them.In this manner did the Neighbour Princes join to aflift Cromwell with very great Sums of Money, whereby he was enabled to profecute an finish his wicked Victory over what remained yet unconquered; and to extinguish Monarchy in this renowned Kingdom; whilft they enriched and adorned themfelves with the Ruins and Spoils of the furviving Heir, without applying any part thereof to his Relief, in the greatest Neceffities that ever King was fubject to. And that which was ftranger than all this, (fince moft Men by recovering their Fortunes, ufed to recover moft of what they were before robbed of, and many who joined in the Robbery, pretending that they took care of it for the true Owner) not one of these Princes ever reftored any of their unlawful Purchases to the King after his bleffed Refloration. [See likewife Echard vol. 2. p. 662, 663]