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Hume and Smollet's Celebrated History of England, From Its First Settlement to the Year 1760
Hume and Smollet's Celebrated History of England From Its First Settlement to the Year 1760 Author:David Hume Subtitle: Accurately and Impartially Abridged. and a Continuation From That Period to the Coronation of George Iv. July 19, 1821, Embracing a Period of Nearly Two Thousand Years General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1852 Original Publisher: Pratt Subjects: Great Britain History / Europe / Great Britain Notes: Th... more »is is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: The parliament, though at present defenceless, possessed many resources; and, therefore, Cromwell advanced upon them with the army, and arrived in a few days at St. Al- bau's. The parliament, conscious of their want of popularity, were reduced to despair; and live army, hoping by terror alone to effect all their purposes, halted at St. Al- ban's, and entered into negotiation with their masters. The army, in their usurpations on the parliament, copied / exactly the model which the parliament itself had set them 1 in their recent usurpations on the crown. Every day theyp rose in their demands; and one concession only paved I the way to another still more exorbitant. At last, there being no signs of resistance, in order to save appearances, they removed, at the desire of the parliament, to a greater distance from London, and fixed their head-quarters at Reading. Charles was carried with them in all their marches, and found himself much more formidable than at Holdeuby. All his friends had access to him; and his children were once allowed to visit him, and they passed a few days at Caversharn, where he resided. Cromwell, as well as the leaders of all factions, p; iid court to him; and so confident was the kinir, that all parties would at length have recourse to his lawful authority, that on several occasions he observed, "You cannot be without me...« less