THE LIFE OF EDWARD EARL OF CLARENDONLORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF ENGLANDVOLUME II

BYSIR HENRY CRAIK, K.C.B., LL.D.

[Illustration: John Hampden from a miniature by Samuel Cooper in thepossession of Earl Spencer]

CONTENTS OF VOLUME II

CHAPTER

XIV. THE RESTORATION

XV. PROSPECT FOR THE RESTORED MONARCHY

XVI. DIFFICULTIES TO BE MET

XVII. SCOTTISH ADMINISTRATION

XVIII. THE PROBLEMS OF IRELAND

XIX. MARRIAGE TREATY AND RELIGIOUS SETTLEMENT

XX. DOMESTIC DISSENSION AND FOREIGN COMPLICATIONS

XXI. THE DUTCH WAR

XXII. ADMINISTRATIVE FRICTION

XXIII. DECAY OF CLARENDON'S INFLUENCE

XXIV. INCREASING BITTERNESS OF HIS FOES

XXV. THE TRIUMPH OF FACTION

INDEX

LIST OF PORTRAITS

VOLUME II

JOHN HAMPDENFrom a miniature by Samuel Cooper, in the possession of Earl Spencer

GEORGE MONK, DUKE OF ALBEMARLEFrom the original by Sir Peter Lely, in the National Portrait Gallery

GENERAL LAMBERTFrom the original by R. Walker, in the National Portrait Gallery

SIR HENRY VANE, THE YOUNGERFrom the original by William Dobson, in the National Portrait Gallery

JOHN MAITLAND, DUKE OF LAUDERDALEFrom the original by Sir Peter Lely, in the National Portrait Gallery

GEORGE DIGBY, SECOND EARL OF BRISTOLFrom the original by Sir Anthony Vandyke, in the Collection of EarlSpencer

SIR EDWARD NICHOLASFrom the original by Sir Peter Lely, in the National Portrait Gallery

ANNE HYDE, DUCHESS OF YORKFrom the original by Sir Peter Lely

JAMES BUTLER, DUKE OF ORMONDEFrom the original by Sir Godfrey Kneller

CHAPTER XIV

THE RESTORATION

After the death of Cromwell, on September 3rd, 1658, there ensued for theexiled Court twenty months of constant alternation between hope anddespair, in which the gloom greatly preponderated. As the chief pilot ofthe Royalist ship, Hyde, now titular Lord Chancellor, had to steer his waythrough tides that were constantly shifting, and with scanty gleam ofsuccess to light him on the way. Within the little circle of the Court hewas assailed by constant jealousy, none the less irksome because it wascontemptible. The policy of Charles, so far as he had any policy apartfrom Hyde, varied between the encouragement of friendly overtures fromsupporters of different complexions at home, and a somewhat damagingcultivation of foreign alliances, which were delusive in their profferedhelp, and might involve dangerous compliance with religious tenetsabhorred in England. The friends in England were jealous and suspicious ofone another, and their loyalty varied in its strength, and was marked byvery wide difference in its ultimate objects. It would have been hard inany case to discern the true position amidst the complicated maze ofpolitical parties in England; it was doubly hard for one who had been anexile for a dozen years. To choose between different course

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