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Title: The life of Edward Mountagu, K.G., first earl of Sandwich (1625-1672)
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Harris, F. R. (Frank Reginald)
Subjects: Sandwich, Edward Montagu, Earl of, 1625-1672 Great Britain -- History Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 Great Britain -- History Restoration, 1600-1688 Great Britain -- History, Naval
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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my wouldhave been cast into the scale on the side of a full andfree Parliament; but upon the failure at Chester heremained inactive. When Parliament interfered withhis regiments, and attempted to cashier certain of hisofficers, he, like Mountagu, sought retirement, as oneweary with the worlds transactions, and desirous tolive retired with a peaceable enjoyment of what hehath got.2 Only when he heard of the breach be-tween the Parliament and army did he resolve to takea hand in the game. But in order to gain time he negotiated withLambert and Fleetwood and the ministers of thecongregated churches. During October and Novem-ber, commissioners passed backwards and forwardsbetween England and Scotland. Moncks attitude wasclear, though he kept it secret and progressively in-creased his demands. He set against the remedies ^ Clarendon State Papers, iii. 628. 2 Clarendon MSS., 64, f. 320. The passage begins: Mountagu isreturned home, but finds not an entertainment suitable to his expectation.
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GEORGE MONCK, DUKE OF ALBEMARLEFrom a portrait by Robert Walker To face p. 162 of Vol. I 1659) PARLIAMENT RECALLED 163 of his opponents the remedy, for England, of a full andfree Parliament. This violent interruption of theirsitting, he said, was a courtesy to the Stewarts.^ Atthe same time he made it plain that Parliament was tobe neither the creation of an army nor of a Church, buta Parliament which should admit men of all opinions.It was his counterblast to the intolerable slavery of asword Government. If it should include Royalistsand Republicans, Brownists and Anglicans, men ofirreconcilable tenets, still Monck persisted that hisconscience and commission called for such a settle-ment. He approached a distracted nation with somethought of government by consent, whereas hisopponents offered government by discretion. WhileLamberts troops were discontented and unpaid,Monck had behind him a small but loyal army, awell-filled purse, and a stoutly-garrisoned country.He rallied to his st

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