. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . nd in acknowledgement Par-liament charged all his debts to the public account and voted himan income of ;^8,7oo a year. But the restoration of the Stuarts wasaccomplished before the restoration of Richards finances. Early inthe summer of 1660 he sailed for France, more in fear of the bailiffsthan of Charles H. From that date his extinction was lived obscurely in Paris under the name of John Clarke, occu-pying his time by drawing landscapes and reading. He did notdisguise his identity from any one who challenged him, but m
. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . nd in acknowledgement Par-liament charged all his debts to the public account and voted himan income of ;^8,7oo a year. But the restoration of the Stuarts wasaccomplished before the restoration of Richards finances. Early inthe summer of 1660 he sailed for France, more in fear of the bailiffsthan of Charles H. From that date his extinction was lived obscurely in Paris under the name of John Clarke, occu-pying his time by drawing landscapes and reading. He did notdisguise his identity from any one who challenged him, but merelyhid it from the world at large, that he might lead a peaceable various wanderings on the continent, he returned to Englandabout 1680. His wife was already dead, and his only son, Oliver,died in 1705 in his fiftieth year. Richards last years were spent incomplete retirement at Cheshunt. As he said, my strength andsafety is to be retired, quiet and silent. By these means he escapedmolestation and so attained his chief desire. He was quite un-. RICHARD CROMWKLL From the portrait in the National Portrait Gallery Painter unknown Face f. tyj RICHARH CROMWELL 173 troubled by regretful longings after his former station or by anybitterness against his supplanters. Even the constant jibes of theRoyalist poets and pamphleteers, who satirized him as Queen Dick ,can have hurt him but little, since royalty had never been of his ownchoosing and its loss was correspondingly trifling. He died a veryold man at Cheshunt and is buried at Hursley, in Hampshire. Few good words have been vouchsafed to Richard obvious failings in character and ambition, which might bepleasant rather than heinous in an ordinary country gentleman, havebeen regarded almost as criminal, because he was the son and suc-cessor of the great Protector. He has been judged by a standardimposed on him by the accident of anothers greatness, to succeed tothe fruits of which he himself never aspired. He
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