. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . 1990 —Medal struck to commemorate the Poplsn Plot.(troxa the Original in the Brit. 1991.—Palace of Windsor (From Kips Delices de la Grande Bretagne. No. 72.—Vol. IT. 185 186 OLD ENGLAND. [Book VI unprincipled aspirations, by whomsoever held : whilst to crush him,now that he could be crushed, was to open a thousand opportunitiesfor their realization. What was Cromwells course ? The remark-able incident described in an earlier part of our work in connectionwith the Blue Boar Inn, in
. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . 1990 —Medal struck to commemorate the Poplsn Plot.(troxa the Original in the Brit. 1991.—Palace of Windsor (From Kips Delices de la Grande Bretagne. No. 72.—Vol. IT. 185 186 OLD ENGLAND. [Book VI unprincipled aspirations, by whomsoever held : whilst to crush him,now that he could be crushed, was to open a thousand opportunitiesfor their realization. What was Cromwells course ? The remark-able incident described in an earlier part of our work in connectionwith the Blue Boar Inn, in Holborn, furnishes the answer. Crom-well did treat with Charles, until he found that he was dealingwith one who would not only break whatever pledges he made themoment he was again in power, but would make a jest of puttingthe halter round his (Cromwells) neck, as the practical mode offulfilling a promise of the Garter. Up to this time there had stillbeen a chance of Charless restoration to power; this last act offaithlessness sealed his fate irretrievably. All this while, the King himself appears to have remained insen-sible to his fatal vice; and bewailed his misfortunes with an ear-
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