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He appears to have held himself out to every party as a friend, and to have finally attached himself to the royalists, when he saw that the royal cause was likely to triumph. Charles acknowledged his services in the patent by which he was created Lord Ashley, mentioning in particular "his prudent and seasonable advice with General Monk in order to the king's restoration." Dugd. ii. 481.
The solemnities of single combat, as established by law, banished the notion of every thing unfair or unequal in rencounters; and maintained an appearance of courtesy between the combatants till the moment of their engagement. Dugd. Orig. The ensuing scenes of our history are therefore somewhat different from the preceding.
The EXECUTIVE power of the Anglo-Norman government was lodged in the king. He could at his pleasure command the attendance of his barons and their vassals, in which consisted the military force of the kingdom; and could employ them, during forty days, either in resisting a foreign enemy, or reducing his rebellious subjects. Orig. Jurid. p. 15. Spellm. Gloss. Sacra, vol. i. p. 334, &c. Dugd. Orig.
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