This admirable character was not all written at the same time.  The first sentence is from Clarendon’s Life, and the remainder from the History, where the date, ‘21 Nov. 1671’, is appended. 123, l. 15. Crumwells owne character,—­in the debate in Parliament on carrying out the sentence of death, March 8, 1649.  Clarendon had briefly described Cromwell’s speech:  ’Cromwell, who had known him very well, spake so much good of him, and professed to have so much kindness and respect for him, that all men thought he was now safe, when he concluded, that his affection to the public so much weighed down his private friendship, that he could not but tell them, that the question was now, whether they would preserve the most bitter and the most implacable enemy they had’ (vol. iv, p. 506).

l. 22.  He married in November 1626, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Charles Morrison, of Cassiobury, Hertfordshire, and granddaughter of the first Viscount Campden.  Their daughter Theodosia was the wife of the second Earl of Clarendon.

Page 124, l. 13. an indignity, probably a reference to Lord Hopton’s command of the army in the west; see vol. iv, p. 131.

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Clarendon, MS. Life, p. 273; History, Bk.  VIII, ed. 1703, vol. ii, pp. 427-8; ed.  Macray, vol. iii, pp. 443-5.

The four generals in this group are described on various occasions in the History.  In this passage Clarendon sums up shortly what he says elsewhere, and presents a parallel somewhat in the manner of Plutarch.

Page 125, l. 23.  Clarendon has a great passage in Book VII (vol. iii, pp. 224-6) on the value of Councils, even when the experience and wisdom of the councillors individually may not promise the right decisions.  The passage is suggested by, and immediately follows, a short character of Prince Rupert.

Page 126, ll. 15, 16.  Clarendon refers to the retreat of the Parliamentary Army at Lostwithiel, on August 31, 1644, when Essex embarked the foot at Fowey and escaped by sea, and Sir William Balfour broke away with the horse.  In describing it, Clarendon says that ’the notice and orders came to Goring when he was in one of his jovial exercises; which he received with mirth, and slighting those who sent them, as men who took alarms too warmly; and he continued his delights till all the enemy’s horse were passed through his quarters, nor did then pursue them in any time’ (vol. iii, p. 403; cf. p. 391).  But Goring’s horse was not so posted as to be able to check Balfour’s.  See the article on Goring by C.H.  Firth in the Dictionary of National Biography and S.R.  Gardiner’s Civil War, 1893, vol. ii, pp. 13-17.  Clarendon was misinformed; yet this error in detail does not impair the truth of the portrait.

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Clarendon, MS. History, pp. 447-8; History, Bk.  VII, ed. 1704, vol. ii, pp. 204-6; ed.  Macray, vol. iii, pp. 61-4.