Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 391 pages of information about Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles.

Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 391 pages of information about Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles.

Page 161, ll. 3-19.  ’Clarendon’s view that Warwick was a jovial hypocrite is scarcely borne out by other contemporary evidence.  The “jollity and good humour” which he mentions are indeed confirmed.  “He was one of the most best-natured and cheerfullest persons I have in my time met with,” writes his pious daughter-in-law (Autobiography of Lady Warwick, ed.  Croker, p. 27).  Edmund Calamy, however, in his sermon at Warwick’s funeral, enlarges on his zeal for religion; and Warwick’s public conduct during all the later part of his career is perfectly consistent with Calamy’s account of his private life (A Pattern for All, especially for Noble Persons, &c., 1658, 410, pp. 34-9).’—­C.H.  Firth, in the Dictionary of National Biography.

l. 13. Randevooze (or _-vouze_, or _-vouce_, or _-vowes_) is a normal spelling of Rendezvous in the seventeenth century.  The words had been introduced into English by the reign of Elizabeth.

ll. 20-2.  The proceedings are described at some length by Clarendon, vol. ii, pp. 19-22, 216-23.  Warwick was appointed Admiral by the Parliament on July 1, 1642.

l. 23.  The expulsion of the Long Parliament on April 20, 1653.  A thorough examination of all the authorities for the story of the expulsion will be found in two articles by C.H.  Firth in History, October 1917 and January 1918.

ll. 24-5.  Robert Rich, his grandson, married Frances, Cromwell’s youngest daughter, in November 1657, but died in the following February, aged 23.  See Thurloe’s State Papers, vol. vi, p. 573.

Page 162, l. 11. in Spayne, on the occasion of the proposed Spanish match.

ll. 22-3.  He resigned his generalship on April 2, 1645, the day before the Self-Denying Ordinance was passed.

ll. 24 ff.  His first wife was Buckingham’s cousin, their mothers being sisters.  He married his second wife in 1626, before Buckingham’s death.  He was five times married.

Page 163, l. 11. his father, Henry Montagu (1563-1642), created Baron Montagu of Kimbolton and Viscount Mandeville, 1620, and Earl of Manchester, 1628.  By the favour of Buckingham he had been made Lord Treasurer in 1620, but within a year was deprived of the office and ‘reduced to the empty title of President of the Council’; see the character (on the whole favourable) by Clarendon, vol. i, pp. 67-9.

l. 12.  Manchester and Warwick are described by Clarendon as ’the two pillars of the Presbyterian party’ (vol. iv, p. 245).

Page 164, l. 16.  He was accused with the five members of the House of Commons, January 3, 1642.  Cf. p. 123, l. 5.

l. 26.  Elsewhere Clarendon says that Manchester ’was known to have all the prejudice imaginable against Cromwell’ (vol. iv, p. 245).  He lived in retirement during the Commonwealth, but returned to public life at the Restoration, when he was made Lord Chamberlain.

This character may be compared with Clarendon’s other character of Manchester, vol. i, pp. 242-3, and with the character in Warwick’s Memoires, pp. 246-7.  Burnet, speaking of him in his later years, describes him as ’A man of a soft and obliging temper, of no great depth, but universally beloved, being both a vertuous and a generous man’.

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