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The unsettled state of the nation, the dissensions among his enemies, the flattering representations of his friends, and the offers of co-operation from men who had hitherto opposed his claims, persuaded him that the day of his restoration was at hand. Ludlow, ii. 197. Declaration of Officers, 6. Thurloe, 679. Clarend. from Ostend with the royal army of four thousand men under the Marshal Marsin.
In these instances, the recognition of the protector, and of the two houses, the royalists, with some exceptions, had voted in favour of the court, under the impression that such a form of government was Thurloe, 615, 626, 633, 636, 640, 647, Clar. Pap. iii. 429, 432. one step towards the restoration of the king.
On the day of his inauguration he had written the name of his successor within a cover sealed with the protectorial arms; but that paper had been lost, or purloined, or destroyed. Thurloe undertook to suggest to him a second nomination; but the condition of the protector, who, if we believe him, was always insensible or delirious, afforded no opportunity.
This treaty with the United Provinces was the first which engaged the attention of the protector, and was Thurloe, i. 50, 69, 154, 257. not concluded till repeated victories had proved the superiority of the English navy, and a protracted negotiation had exhausted the patience of the States.
And in the main, the Scots were obliged to acknowledge, that never before, while they enjoyed their irregular, factious liberty, had they attained so much happiness as at present, when reduced to subjection under a foreign nation. * Whitlocke, p. 570. Thurloe, vol. iv. p. 57. * Thurloe, vol. vi. p. 557. The protector's administration of Ireland was more severe and violent.
In Thurloe, i. 757, is a paper signed John Foster, supposed to be the original offer made to Thurloe by Willis. in disguise through France to Geneva, that he might escape the notice of Lockhart and Mazarin, returned along the Rhine to join his master in Flanders.
Clarendon Papers, iii. 180. Thurloe, v. 169, 178; vii. 325. Charles, in the time of his exile, had also children by Catherine Peg and Elizabeth Killigrew. See Sanford, 646, 647. religion. On one hand, the Catholics, on the other, the Presbyterians, urged him by letters and messages to embrace their respective modes of worship.
They had a delightful honeymoon in the Tyrol, and returned to town late in October. The house in Thurloe Square, where they were to reside, had been newly decorated and furnished for them, and was pronounced by critics to be a marvel of luxury and beauty.
In favour of the first, it was urged that he had never been suffered to compound, had never submitted to the commonwealth, and had Thurloe, vii. 159, 164. State Trials, v. 871, 883, 907. These trials are more interesting in Clarendon, but much of his narrative is certainly, and more of it probably, fictitious.
* Thurloe, vol. ii. p. 588. The greatest liberty was used in arraigning this new dignity; and even the personal character and conduct of Cromwell escaped not without censure.
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