Memorials of the Professional Life and Times of Sir William Penn. [With] Character of a Trimmer, by Sir W. Coventry [Or Rather, by G. Savile].
by Granville Penn (9781150573835)

Title: Memorials of the Professional Life and Times of Sir William Penn. with] Character of a Trimmer, by Sir W. Coventry or Rather, by G. Savile]. Repr Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1833 Original Publisher: S.n. Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 1659. There is no period in the history of any country more embroiled with perplexity, than the year which followed Cromwell's death, and immediately preceded the Restoration of the kingdom. The cause of that perplexity, was the endeavour of those contemporary historians whose writings acquired the chief ascendency, to tell a whole story, omitting one moiety of the facts which alone can render it intelligible. As the omission was not accidental, or any result of ignorance in those historians, but proceeded from a deliberate desire to suppress the share which the navy of the parliament took in bringing about that great work, I shall, in justice to that truly patriotic service, here bring forward into prominent view all the governing facts, which those writers have excluded from their records. The absence of all regular government, after the compulsory abdication of the protectorate by Richard Cromwell, and the assumption of the power usurped by the army, which had sprung up like a hydra from the blood of their late chief, kept the country, in all its parties, in a state of ceaseless ebullition, and proportionately excited a thirst for tranquillity and repose; but, the means of obtaining that repose was not within the horizon of ordinary discernment. A general longing prevailed, that the key-stone should at length be restored to the shattered arch of the kingdom; but this was rather an ideal wish, than a VOL. II. N...

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