It is very rare, yea,
even in our days, for any operator or master to have the angels speak
articulately; when they do speak, it is like the Irish, much in the
throat.
What further concerns his Majesty, will more fully be evident about 1672
or 1674, or, at farthest, in 1676. And now unto my own actions in 1660.
In the first place, my fee-farm rents, being of the yearly value of one
hundred and twenty pounds, were all lost by his Majesty's coming to his
restoration: but I do say truly, the loss thereof did never trouble me,
or did I repine thereat.
In June of that year, a new Parliament was called, whereunto I was
unwillingly invited by two messengers of the Serjeant at Arms. The
matter whereupon I was taken into custody was, to examine me concerning
the person who cut off the King's head, viz. the late King's.
Sir Daniel Harvey, of Surry, got the business moved against me in great
displeasure, because, at the election of new knights for Surrey, I
procured the whole town of Walton to stand, and give their voices for
Sir Richard Onslow. The Committee to examine me, were Mr. Prinn, one
Colonel King, and Mr.
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