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ere forfeited. Some were allowed to "compound," i.e. to keep part of their estates on payment of a sum of money. p. 253, l. 32. Montrose had created a Royalist party in Scotland and was fighting there for the King. p. 258, l. 1. The "forlorn" was a body of men sent in advance of an expedition. p. 272, l. 21. After the defeat of the Royalists dissension arose between the parliament and the army and naturally the army was able to coerce the parliament. p. 274, l. 2. Cornet Joyce secured the person of the King by the order of Cromwell, the idol of the army. p. 274, l. 26. The Cavalier exaggerates the likelihood of an understanding between the King and the parliament. In reality Charles was merely playing off one party against the other. p. 275, l. 7. In January 1648 parliament had passed a vote of "No Addresses," renouncing any further negotiation with the King, but after the second civil war of that year (in which the Presbyterians joined the King) they resumed them again in the Treaty of Newport. The army however became more violent, and the result was the forcible exclusion of all moderate members of parliament in "Pride's Purge," December 1648. The trial and execution of the King followed. p. 275, l. 35. The Cavalier refers to the acts of retaliation which followed the Restoration of Charles II. p. 276, l. 27. There were many republicans among the "Independents" or "Sectaries" in the army, but the policy actually carried out can hardly have been planned before the war. p. 278, l. 5. Cardinal Bellarmine was one of the great Controversialists of the Counter-Reformation. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Memoirs of a Cavalier, by Daniel Defoe *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MEMOIRS OF A CAVALIER *** ***** This file should be named 12259.txt or 12259.zip ***** This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/2/2/5/12259/ Produced by Audrey Longhurst, Audrey Longhurst, Leah Moser and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be renamed. Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part of
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