Montgomery manuscripts

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The Montgomery Manuscripts.
had retired for their last refuge, to obtain conditions of peace. The Marquis of Ormond went to
wait on the K. (C 8 the 2d.)
And now our Vise' came to visit his Lady and his daughter Jean, 64 not three months old, and
his mother, sister 65 and brother 66 afores d . his Lo p being afterwards bro' under more severe bonds than
his neighbour L d and other Protestants, viz. to leave his family, friends, relations and tenants, by
a certain time, and to travel to London by way of Dublin, and not through any part of Scotland,
and to appear before a committee of Pari, (to witt of the Rump) 67 w h banished him into Holland.
This was a trap or snare for his life and forfeiture of his estate ; besides, his enemies considered
that his being abroad cou'd do the harm but of a single man of his parts and interest at a distance;
but if his Lo p staid at home, he could do a general mischief to them (the usurpers) as formerly to
Monck and Coote. So by removing him they prevented this, and watched him for the other
danger.
And on his Lo p they had laid a strict charge on several penalties of hard usage to his Lady
and to his other relations afores 6 ; tho' he shou'd not go into the Spanish Netherlands or Scotland,
nor come back to England or Ireland, without the Council of State's license, nor be any way cor-
respondent with CIiclk Stuart.
land to Bristol, thence to Somerset House, and afterwards
honoured with burial in Henry the Seventh's chapel.
Ludlow, when noticing Ireton's public funeral, says —
"Someof General Cromwell's relations, who were not igno-
rant of his vast designs now on foot, caused the body of
the Lord Deputy Ireton to be transported into England, and
solemnly interred at Westminster, in a magnificent monu-
ment, at the public charge; who, if he could have foreseen
what was done by them, would certainly have made it his
desire that his body might have found a grave where his
soul left it, so much did he despise those pompous* and
expensive vanities; having erected for himself a more
glorious monument in the hearts of good men, by his
affection to his country, his abilities of mind, his impartial
justice, his diligence in the public service, and his other
vertues, which were a far greater honour to his memory
than a dormitory among the ashes of kings, who, for the
most part, as they had governed others by their passions,
so were they themselves as much governed by them." —
Memoirs, vol. i., p, 384.
64 Daughter Jean. — The lady Jean, called after his
mother, was his only daughter by his first marriage. She
was born at Newtown House, in September, 1649, and
died unmarried at Chester, in 1673.
6 s Sister. — His only sister, Elizabeth Montgomery,
married her cousin, William Montgomery of Rosemount,
the author of the Manuscripts.
66 Brother. — His only surviving brother, James, born at
Dunskey, in 1639.
6 ? The Rump. — So the remnant of the Long Parliament
was nicknamed after 1648, when the presbyterian members
were expelled by the process known as Pride's Purge.
The Rump Parliament was one of the most distinguished
legislative assemblies ever witnessed in England. Amongits
leadingmen were sir Harry Vane, the most practical of states-
men ; — Thomas Scott, some of whose speeches are describ-
ed as among the most eloquent in the English language ; —
Algernon Sidney, a descendant by his mother's side from
Hotspur, and as ' impatient as Hotspur himself of all
courtly arts or kingly arrogance ;' and Thomas Harrison,
who carried his daring as a soldier to the most chivalrous
extent. The great practical error of this parliament was
its reluctance and delay in dissolving itself, thus giving
Cromwell a pretext violently to put an end to its sittings
in 1653, after an existence of thirteen years. — See Bisset's
History of the Commonwealth, vol. ii. , pp. 420, 429, 430,
455. 456.