THE HISTORY OF THE REBELLION AND CIVIL WARS IN ENGLAND, BY EDWARD EARL OF CLARENDON. A NEW EDITION, FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT. IN SEVEN VOLUMES. VOL. III. OXFORD, AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. MDCCCXXXIX. Clar. Press. 31.0.3. THE HISTORY OF THE REBELLION, &c. BOOK V. CONTINUED. THIS HIS declaration was no sooner published, but his majesty likewise set forth an answer to that other declaration, of the twenty-sixth of May; in which he said, "that whosoever looked over the late remonstrance, entitled, A Declaration of the "Lords and Commons, of the twenty-sixth of May, "would not think that his majesty had great reason "to be pleased with it; yet he could not but "commend the plaindealing and ingenuity of the framers and contrivers of that declaration, (which had been wrought in a hotter and quicker forge "than any of the rest,) who would no longer suffer "his majesty to be affronted by being told, they "would make him a great and glorious king, "whilst they used all possible skill to reduce him "to extreme want and indigency; and that they "would make him to be loved at home, and feared "abroad, whilst they endeavoured, by all possible |