' him from the Table, and killed him at his Feet, • faying, Thus dies one of the Regicides, and there

upon they all put up their Swords, and walked • leisurely out of the House, leaving those who

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were in the Room with much Amazment, and • Consternation. Though all who were engaged ⚫ in the Enterprize went quietly away, and so out of • Town; infomuch as no one of them was ever • apprehended or called in Question: Yet they

kept not their own Counsel so well (believing they < had done a very Heroick Act) but that it was • generally known, that they were all Scotishmen, • and most of them Servants and Dependants of < the Marquis of Mountrofe. Dr. (a) Perinchief • calls Dorislaus a German Bandito; But Mr.Wood • says (b) that he was a Dutchman born, originally

a Schoolmaster, 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 History Lecture in Cambridge, which he was about to found fome Years before his Death. • But in his very first Lectures, decrying Monar

chy, was upon the Complaint of Dr. John Cufin, • Master of Peter-House, to the Vicechancellor, • (which afterwards came to his Majesty's know• ledge) filenced. Afterwards, he became Judge • Advocate in the King's Army, in one of his • Expeditions against the Scots, Advocate in the Army against the King under Robert Earl of • Effex, afterwards under Sir Thomas Fairfax, and

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• of Admiralty, aud an Assistant in drawing up,

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

(b) Athene Oxm. 2d edit. vol. 3. p. 339. Bishop Kennet observes, (Compleve History of England, vol. 3. p. 192. 2d edit. See likewise Walker's History 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 Parlia•ment or Judge in their Duty.'

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• and managing the Charge against King Charles • I. in order to his Execution. I say, (c) Dorislaus • 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 resented this base Action so highly, that the young King thought proper to remove into France.

That it was much resented by the Rump, is not to be questioned. (d) • For after this defperate Attempt came to their Knowledge, they became so much enraged, that they refolved to facrifice ' the Life of a certain (e) Royalist of Note (Sir • Lewis Dyves) then in their Custody, and they ' had certainly done it, had he not made a time

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ly Escape. Afterward they caused the Body of • Dorifslaus 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 resented his Death, I cannot so easily believe. (g) They had bravely remonstrated by their

(c) Two hundred Pounds per Annum fettled for Life by the Rump upon Doriflaus's Son, 5001. a piece to his Daughters, and 250. order'd for his Funeral, Whitelock's Memorials, p. 401, 402.

(d) Wood's Aibenæ Oxon. Vol. 2. p. 339. With equal Justice might Maffianello the Fisherman, a mock King of Naples, have resented such Ufage from the Viceroy of Naples, had one of his Servants cut off any of the mock King's Messengers during his ten Days Kingship, and in time of Treat, though (like Dorislaus) he had been one of the most defperate of

Rebels.

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

(f) There was an order (says Whitelock p. 407.) for the Members of the House, and of the Council of State, and the Lords Commissioners 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,

their two Embassadors against the King's Death, and I cannot be easily induced to think, that after that, they could resent 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 Respect to the King; they • were highly offended at what was past, and fen• sible what Expostulations and Clamour for Juf< tice they must expect and sustain from England, • and what Reproaches they must undergo for • fuffering all those that had been guilty of such • a Crime to escape the Ministers of Justice; • 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 such Formalities as were usual, (and • which could bring no Prejudice to the Offen• ders, who were either gone out of their Dominions or concealed themselves in other Towns • where the fame Formalities were to be used, • if they were discovered) and without so much • Reflection upon the King, as if they believed • the guilty Person had any Relation to his Ser

vice.

And upon his defiring an Audience, which they readily granted the King (Lord Clarendon observes, id. ib.) was received in the fame manner he had • been formerly, and being conducted into the • Room of Council, after a short Compliment ⚫ he delivered a Paper to them, which he de• fired might be read, and that he might receive • their Advice thereupon as foon as they pleased. • The Memorial contained in the first 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 assembled) might be informed of such his Majesty's Sense of their Kindness; especially ' of the full and high (k) Detestation they had expressed ' of the impious and unparallel'd Murder of bis Royal

(k) 'Tis remarkable that the Dutch were the only Foreign State that remonftrated against the King's Death, or at least interceded for his Life; which must be acknowledged to their eternal Honour, by all Persons who have the least Grain of Loyalty left, or Regard to the Memory of King Charles the First, who (without Flattery) was one of the best 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, (Wbitelock's Memorials 335.) When it was disputed 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 Publifus num. 22. p. 341, 342. Penes me.) That the States of Holland fupped ⚫ bare before his Majesty; one of the Courses was served up to him all in Gold Plate, which was afterwards presented to his Majesty, valued at 60,000 1. That they presented his Majefty with a Bed that cost 7000 1. Sterling, and Table Linen to the value of 10,000 1. and 600,000 Gilders. The Treatment of the King, and all who belonged to his Service (fays Mr. Echard, Hist. vol. 2. p. 903.) at the Charge of the States, during the ' time of his Abode there, was incredibly noble and splendid; the Expence of which and the Presents amounted to 100,000 1. and their Joy was • so manifest that it could only be exceeded by his own Subjects. They presented him likewise by their Ambassador at Whiteball, 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 also an excellent Collection of Pictures ' of the most famous, ancient, and modern Masters, with a great number of Statues of white Marble of excellent Sculpture.

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 first secured their Goods) to give them leave to stay a while in Arch-Angel, his only Port of Trade, ' whither from his Court and City of Mofco he had driven them. He had proferred to the Lord Culpeper (his Majesties Ambassador) to have given him all the English Estates: But he declining it, and telling the • Emperor the King conceived very well of those his Subjects, he very • frankly lent the King 20,000l. with a Protestation of his farther Good • Will if he had not been so greatly engaged in a War at home.

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The King of Denmark likewise sent an Ambassador to King Charles the Second to offer him his Assistance, (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 send 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 un• Shaken Ally, by which the Forms and Rules of all kinds of Government were no less violated and • diffolved than that of Monarchy: That he came

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to inform them, that he did intend, in a short ' time, to dispose of his Person as might with • God's Blessing most probably advance his Af'fairs; and that for the better doing there' of, and that he might in so important an • Affair receive their particular Advice, he should

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impart to them the true State and Condition ' of his feveral Dominions, that he needed not in• form them of the deplorable Condition of • his Kingdom of England, where the Hearts and • Affections of his Loyal Subjects were so depref' fed, and kept under by the Power and Cruel

ty of those who had murdered their late Sove• reign, and who every day gave fresh and bloody • Instances of their Tyranny to fright Men from • their Allegiance, that at present no Man could • believe that miferable Kingdom could be fit • for his Majesty to trust his Person in: That • in Scotland it is very true, that his Majesty

chase 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 Alonzı • de Cardenas who had been his Ambassador to the King ftill refiding at London.As foon as thisdismal 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. Chriftina Queen of Saveden purchased 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 affift Cromwell • with very great Sums of Money, whereby he was enabled to profecute and • finish his wicked Victory over what remained yet unconquered; and to extinguish Monarchy in this renowned Kingdom; whilst they enriched and adorned themselves 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 stranger than all this, (fince most Men by recovering their Fortunes, used to recover most ' 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 restored any of their unlawful Purchases to the King after

his blessed Reftoration. [See likewise Echard vol. 2. p. 662, 663.1

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