’Sed neque te fas est praeterire, Fairfaxi, in quo cum summa fortitudine summam modestiam, summam vitae sanctitatem, & natura & divinus favor conjunxit:  Tu harum in partem laudum evocandus tuo jure ac merito es; quanquam in illo nunc tuo secessu, quantus olim Literni Africanus ille Scipio, abdis te quoad potes; nec hostem solum, sed ambitionem, & quae praestantissimum quemque mortalium vincit, gloriam quoque vicisti; tuisque virtutibus & praeclare factis, jucundissimum & gloriosissimum per otium frueris, quod est laborum omnium & humanarum actionum vel maximarum finis; qualique otio cum antiqui Heroes, post bella & decora tuis haud majora, fruerentur, qui eos laudare conati sunt poetae, desperabant se posse alia ratione id quale esset digne describere, nisi eos fabularentur, coelo receptos, deorum epulis accumbere.  Verum te sive valetudo, quod maxime crediderim, sive quid aliud retraxit, persuasissimum hoc habeo, nihil te a rationibus reipublicae divellere potuisse, nisi vidisses quantum libertatis conservatorem, quam firmum atque fidum Anglicanae rei columen ac munimentum in successore tuo relinqueres’ (ed. 1654, pp. 147-8).

Page 149, l. 9.  The Self-denying Ordinance, discharging members of Parliament from all offices, civil and military, passed both Houses on April 3, 1645.

l. 18.  He succeeded his father as third Lord Fairfax in 1648.

l. 21.  See p. 118, ll. 8 ff.

41.

Clarendon, MS. Life, p. 103; History, Bk.  III, ed. 1702, vol. i, pp. 148-9; ed.  Macray, vol. i, pp. 247-9.

Baxter has an account of Vane in his Autobiography:  ’He was the Principal Man that drove on the Parliament to go too high, and act too vehemently against the King:  Being of very ready Parts, and very great Subtilty, and unwearied Industry, he laboured, and not without Success, to win others in Parliament, City and Country to his Way.  When the Earl of Strafford was accused, he got a Paper out of his Father’s Cabinet (who was Secretary of State) which was the chief Means of his Condemnation:  To most of our Changes he was that within the House, which Cromwell was without.  His great Zeal to drive all into War, and to the highest, and to cherish the Sectaries, and especially in the Army, made him above all Men to be valued by that Party ...  When Cromwell had served himself by him as his surest Friend, as long as he could; and gone as far with him as their way lay together, (Vane being for a Fanatick Democracie, and Cromwell for Monarchy) at last there was no Remedy but they must part; and when Cromwell cast out the Rump (as disdainfully as Men do Excrements) he called Vane a Jugler’ (Reliquiae Baxterianae, Lib.  I, Part I, p. 75).  This account occurs in Baxter’s description of the sectaries who were named after him ‘Vanists’.