The British nation a history / by George MWrong . Fleeing from the Plague. Though by blockading the Thames they brought on a coalfamine, they withdrew,without attacking the city. Eng-lands rage on account of the mismanagement of the wjirturned against one who was not responsible for it. Themob attacked Clarendons new palace in Piccadilly, andthe king, not unwilling to sacrifice an austere minister ofwhom he was tired, dismissed him from office. To avoidimpeachment he fled from England. The Parliamentbanished him for life, and he spent his remaining years inwriting the history of the great era
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . Fleeing from the Plague. Though by blockading the Thames they brought on a coalfamine, they withdrew,without attacking the city. Eng-lands rage on account of the mismanagement of the wjirturned against one who was not responsible for it. Themob attacked Clarendons new palace in Piccadilly, andthe king, not unwilling to sacrifice an austere minister ofwhom he was tired, dismissed him from office. To avoidimpeachment he fled from England. The Parliamentbanished him for life, and he spent his remaining years inwriting the history of the great era in which he himselfhad played an important part. Charles now sank into deeper moral guilt. He desiredto join openly the Eoman Church, yet he was obligedfrom time to time to assert publicly his devotion to the 414 THE BRITISH NATION Charlesssubservienceto Lulls XIV OF Frakc£ (1638-1715). Church of England. Parliament steadily resisted everyattempt to override its authority, and was acutely suspi-cious of the designsof France. Yet in1G70, by the secretTreaty of Dover, Charles alliedhimself Avith Louis XIV, whomeanwhile was to pay liim a largeincome, and was to support himwith a French army if his sub-jects rebelled Avlien he declaredhimself a Roman Catholic andreconciled England to the Eo-nian Church. The King of Eng-land became in fact a pensionerof France. Charles surroundedhimself with men whom he thought he could use—withBuckingham, the dissolute son of Charles Is favourite ;with Anthony Ashley Cooper, soon created Earl of Shaftes-bury; with Clifford and Arlington. But they were inno sense like a modern cabinet,and only one or two of them knewof the intrigue with France. Theablest among them was undoubt-edly Shaftesbury, who becameLord Chancellor. He was unscru-pulous, but, compared with othersof the time, his life was pure;two p
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