Memoirs of Algernon Sydney Author:George Wilson Meadley Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: further consideration, however, he perse- rered in his first design, and allowing time to reflect more calmly on his situation, he proceeded by way of Venice... more » towards Rome . D- ! .. The chief management of bis affairs in England was entrusted to Sir J. Temple, master of the rolls in Ireland, an old friend of his father's; with whom, notwithstanding some difference in their political attachments, he had been long and most intimately connected. This respectable lawyer, availing himself of the privileges of friendship, delicately, yet strongly, remonstrated with Lord Leicester, on the cruelty of his present conduct, which might drive his son to desperation, and, if no attention was paid to his difficulties, prevent all chance of his recovery -f. i . .' ' ' ' 1 . i! .1-1 " Sydney Papers, II. 100. Letters, 26. Familiar Letter. Sir John Temple's Letter, Nov. 21, 1660 MSS. See Appendix VI. ,, , .,; f Sir John Temple's Letters, MSS. See Appendix - The triumphant royalists, meanwhile; encouraged by the servility of the parliament, and the public infatuation, had taken a most sanguinary vengeance on their prostrate enemies. The exceptions to the general amnesty had been so much increased, during its progress through the two Houses, that, instead of seven, the number to which at first they were expressly limited, they extended to almost every consistent republican, even of those who were not immediately accessary to the execution of the late king. And of such as had taken an active part in that proceeding, there were many who, confiding in a proclamation which clearly implied their personal safety, had surrendered for the preservation of their estates. A commission for their trial was notwithstanding issued, directed to thirty-four persons, fifteen of whom had be...« less