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very anxious to reproduce these extremely quaint memorials of a
bygone age, but on enquiry it was found that the cost of re-engraving
the fifty-two cards on copper, the only really satisfactory method,
would be far beyond the means of a Society then barely numbering
120 members. Being Honorary Secretary of both the Aungervyle
and Clarendon Historical Societies, I suggested that the work should
be undertaken at the joint expense of the two Societies. This was
rather outside the plans of the Clarendon, but the Committee at
length agreed to provide a portion of the necessary funds on condition
that after the fifty-two cards had been re-produced in thirteen plates,
accompanied by a small explanatory pamphlet, a second series of the
Cards, the precise facsimile of the originals, should be presented to
each member of the two Societies. There still remained, how-
ever, a considerable sum to be raised. I thereupon proposed, after
satisfying the above conditions, to purchase the plates from the
Societies. These are now in my possession. The work, executed by
the firm of Murdoch & Son, of this City, is perfect in every detail;
and heavy though the cost has been, I feel sure that, in this case at
any rate, the object aimed at has been fully attained. Not a line,
not a stroke of the original, but appears in exact counterpart in the
reprint.
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Lord Nelson, unfortunately, had lost, or never had in his possession,
two Cards, the ace and three of hearts. After much trouble, these
have been supplied from another source, and, with the exception that
the figures of Cromwell and Fairfax in the latter are on a somewhat
smaller scale than those on the threes of the other suits, it would be
difficult to suspect that they did not belong to the original pack.
In the following notes I have merely attempted to explain the
allusions contained in the Cards. A few, however, remain riddles
to me.
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1. Ace of Hearts.
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IN 1650, Cromwell was named Commander - in - Chief in Ireland;
Ireton, his son-in-law, his deputy; and Hewson or Huson (here mis-
printed Hudson), Governor of Dublin. In the plate they are sailing
away from the sun of loyalty towards the night of treason. The
portrait of Cromwell at the stern is not to be mistaken. Next to him
is Hewson, distinguished from Ireton by his older features.
2. Ace of Clubs.
A Free State, or a Toleration for all sorts of Villany.
In the Mystery of the Good Old Cause " (London, 1660), a Royalist
attack on the leading members of the Long Parliament, the author
says of the Roundheads, “Their pretences were, no doubt, the most
specious and plausible that could be imagined . . . but, alas !
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greatness, wealth, and command were the inducements of the most
hypocritical persons in the world to profane the name of God
to murder many innocent persons . . . . to ruin
many noble families, etc. . . . . but let destruction be the
reward of our destroyers, let the prey be torn out of their teeth, let
the blood they have shed fall upon their own heads, and let their
names be detested and infamous to all posterity 1"
3. Ace of Spades.
Bradshaw, the jaylor, and y” hangman, keepers of the liberty of
England.
Bradshaw was appointed president of the High Court of Justice in
1648, a year “ of reproach and infamy above all years which had
passed before it; a year of the highest dissimulation and hypocrisy,
of the deepest villany and most bloody treasons, that any nation was
ever cursed with or under: a year, in which the memory of all transac-
tions ought to be erased from all records, lest, by the success of it,
atheism, infidelity, and rebellion should be propagated in the world.”
(Clarendon's History of the Rebellion, vol. iii., p. 154, Oxford, 1726,
folio.) He was born in 1586, died in 1659, and his body was exhumed
and hung in chains at the Restoration. He was a cousin of Milton,
who has written a Eulogy of him in his Second Defense of the People of
England.
4. Ace of Diamonds.
The IIigh Court of Justice, or Oliver's Slaughter-IIouse.
“The charge and accusation, upon which they resolved to proceed
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should be called the High Court of Justice. The number of the
Judges named was about an hundred and fifty . . . . Bradshaw
ſº tº was named president . . . . and with great humility
accepted the office, which he administered with all the pride, impu-
dence, and Superciliousness imaginable.”—(Clarendon's History of the
Rebellion, vol. iii., pp. 138-139.)
5. II of Hearts.
Onsley. Father and Sonne.
This is evidently a misprint for Onslow. Sir Richard Onslow, Kt.,
“of the old stamp, a gentleman of Surrey, of good parts and consider-
able revenue,” successfully weathered the tempests of the period. He
was commander at the siege of Basing House, was driven from the
House of Commons by Pride's Purge, and was afterwards at the head of
a Surrey regiment at Worcester. He spoke strongly in favour of
Cromwell's becoming king. Later he became a member of the
Convention Parliament which restored Charles II.
6. II of Clubs.
Lenthall. Father and Sonn.
William Lenthall, of Lincoln's Inn, a Counsellor at Law, and Speaker
of the House of Commons. “Oliver (Cromwell) once made a spunge
of him, and squeezed him out of £15,000. Who turning him and his
tribe out of doors, he veered about to save himself and his great
offices; and he that had been so long bell-weather in the Commons
House, was thought, for his compliance and his money, to deserve to
be one of the herd of Lords in the Other House" (Mystery of the
Good Old Cause). John Lenthall, son of the Speaker, was knighted
by Oliver Cromwell, made a Colonel of foot, and Governor of Windsor
Castle.
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7. II of Spades.
Parry. Father and Sonne.
Query, Sir George Parry, one of the Commissioners for Dorsetshire,
who with those of Somerset and Cornwall, met Prince Rupert at Bridge-
water shortly before the Battle of Naseby'—(Clarendon's History of the
Rebellion, vol. ii., p. 393.)
8. II of Diamonds.
Vane, Father and Sonne.
“Sir Henry Vane was of very ordinary parts by Nature, and had not
cultivated them at all by art, for he was illiterate. But being of a stirring
and boisterous disposition, very industrious and very bold, he still wrought
himself into some employment . . . . His malice to the Earl of
Strafford transported him to all imaginable thoughts of revenge &
and that disposed him to sacrifice his honour and faith and his Master's
interest, that he might ruin the Earl, and was buried himself in the same
ruin ; for which, being justly chastised by the King and being turned out
of his service, he was left to his own despair . . . . He grew into
the hatred and contempt of those who had made most use of him ; and
dyed in universal reproach, and not more contemn’d by any of his
enemies than by his own son ; who had been his principal conductor to
destruction.”—(Clarendon's History of the Rebellion, vol. ii., p. 132.)
Sir Harry Vane, the younger, “was a man of extraordinary parts
He was chosen to cozen a whole nation which was thought
to excel in craft and cunning,” which he did with notable pregnancy and
dexterity.”—(Clarendon's Iſistory of the Rebellion, vol. ii., p. 233.) “He
totally ousted Sir William Russel. He was a discontent during all Oliver's
and Richard's government. He is, no doubt, a man of much religion, and
would have become one of the rulers in Israel, if the intended match
between his son and Lambert's daughter had not been spoiled by the
restitution of the Rump.”—(Mystery of the Good Old Cause.)
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9. III of Hearts.
“Cromwell pypeth unto Faiſº."
Cromwell is here represented playing the º and tabor to Fairfax,
who is performing a Morris dance. This dance was brought to
England in the reign of Edward III., it is said by John of Gaunt.
It was originally a military dance, in which bells were jingled, and
swords clashed. The word Morris is a corruption of Moorish. In
ancient times it used to be danced by five men and a boy, but in the
reign of Elizabeth, we have an instance of Kempe, one of Shakespeare's
colleagues at the Globe Theatre, having danced alone all the way
from London to Norwich.--—(Kemp's nine daies wonder, reprinted in
Goldsmid's Collectanea Adamantaea, No. 29.) Thomas, Lord Fairfax,
warmly espoused the cause of the Parliament when the rupture with
the King took place. He was, however, opposed to the execution of
the King, and became a warm advocate of the Restoration. He died
in 1671.
10 III of Clubs
“Bulstrod and Whitlock present to Oliver the instrument of
Government.”
On the 26th of June, 1657, the ceremony of conferring the pro-
tectorate on Cromwell took place. “After a short speech º
Withrington, the Speaker, with the Earl of Warwick and Whitlock,
vested him with a rich purple welvet robe lined with ermines -
then the Speaker presented him with a fair Bible of the largest
edition, richly bound ; then he, in the name of all the people, girded
a sword about him ; and lastly, presented him with a sceptre of gold,
which he put in his hand, and made him a large discourse of those
emblems of government and authority. Upon the close of which,
there being little wanting to a perfect formal Coronation but a crown
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and an Archbishop, he took his oath, administered to him by the
Speaker.—(Clarendon's History of the Rebellion, vol. iii., page 343.)
Bulstrode and Whitlock spoken of as two men on the Card, are one
and the same. “Dulstrode Whitlocke . . . . before the troubles
was an intimate friend to Sir Richard Lane, who, going to Oxford,
entrusted him with his chambers in the Temple; of which, with all
the goods and an excellent library, he hath kept possession ever since ;
and would not own that ever he knew such a man, when Sir Richard's
son was brought to wait upon him in his greatness . . . . Under
Dick he was made Commissioner of the Seal; and, he being discarded,
wheeled about and worshipped the Rump . . . . He hath a good
fleece, and heir to Lilly the Astrologer.”—(Mystery of the Good Old
Cause.)
11. III of Spades.
“II, Martin defends Ralph, who design'd to kill the King.”
“Henry Martin, colonel of a regiment of horse and a regiment of
whores. He had given him £3000 at one time, to put him upon the
Holy Sisters, and take off from the Levellers. He had the reputation
of a precious Saint from his youth, in reference to all kinds of
debauchery, uncleanness, and fraud, having sold his estate three
times over.”—(Mystery of the Good Old Cause.)
I2. III of Diamonds.
“Simonias sland'ring y” High Priest to get his place.”
One of the riddles I have spoken of in the Introduction, unless it
refers to Cromwell having urged the trial of the King.
13. IV of Hearts.
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Colonel - Pride entered the House with two regiments of soldiers,
imprisoned 60 members, drove 160 into the streets, and left only 60.
These were called the Rump. The name was revived in the Pro-
tectorate of Richard Cromwell, and to distinguish the two, the former
was called the Bloody Rump, and the latter the Rump of a Rump.
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(Butler's Hudibras, Part iii.).
14, IV of Clubs.
“A Covenanting Scot and an English Independent differ about yº
things of this world.”
“There was a wonderful difference, throughout their whole
proceedings, between the heads of those who were thought to sway
the Presbyterian Counsels, and those who govern'd the Independents,
though they were equally masters of dissimulation, and had equally
malice and wickedness in their intentions, though not of the same
kind . . . . The Presbyterians submitted to their senseless and
wretched clergy; whose infectious breath corrupted, and govern'd the
People, and whose authority was prevalent upon their own wives, and
in their domestic affairs in order to corrupt and seduce them wº
whereas Cromwell and the Independents . . . . considered what
was necessary to their main end; and then, whether it were right or
wrong, made all other means subservient to it; couzen’d and deceiv'd
men as long as they could induce them to contribute to what they
desired ; and when they would keep company with them no longer,
compelled them by force to submit to what they should not be able to
oppose ; and so the one resolv’d, only to do what they believ'd the
People would like and approve; and the other, that the People should
like and approve; what they had resolv’d.”——(Clarendon's History of the
Rebellion, vol. iii., pp. 63-64.)
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15. IV of Spades.
“Argyle a muckle Scotch knaue in gude faith Sir.”
Archibald Campbell, Marquis of Argyle, a zealous partisan of the
Covenanters, and the opponent of Montrose, Born in 1598 he
succeeded to his father's titles in 1638. In the same year he was
called to London with other Scotch Nobles, and advised the abolition
of Episcopacy in Scotland. In 1641 he was created Marquis. He
acquiesced in the Protectorate of Cromwell, and for this at the
Restoration he was committed to the Tower. In 1661 he was sent to
Scotland, tried for high treason and beheaded.
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16. IV of Diamonds.
“Laird of Warriston an arrant knaue An my Soul man.”
“It was agreed that the committee of safety should consist of three-
and-twenty persons . . . . men try’d, and faithful to the public
interest . . . . besides three or four others who had been the king's
judges, with Warreston, Vane, Steel, and Whitlock.”—(Clarendon's
History of the Rebellion, vol. iii., p. 402.)
17. V of Hearts.
“The E. of Pem. ... in ye H. of Com. thanks y” Speaker for his
Admission.”
On the 29th of January 1643, a letter was addressed by Members
of both Houses at Oxford to the Earl of Essex. Clarendon observes
“This letter was subscribed by His Highness the Prince, the Duke of
York, and three-and-forty Dukes, Marquises, Earls, Wiscounts, and
Barons, and 118 Members of the House of Commons . . . . so that
the numbers at London were very thin ; for there were not above two-
and-twenty peers, who either sat in the Parliament, or were engaged
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According to Clarenden, vol. ii., pp. 127-128, the Earl of Pembroke
was a weak man with a great sense of his own importance, whom
disappointed ambition “Got into actual rebellion, which he never
intended to do.”
18. V of Clubs.
“Sir H. Mildmay beaten by a foot boy, a great breach of privilege.”
It is said that in the year 1642, Sir H. Mildmay got mixed up in a
brawl in Fleet Street. Whether this Card alludes to that fact or not,
I cannot tell. Clarendon states that Sir John Danvers and Sir
H. Mildmay were the only two members of the High Court of Justice,
whom the King knew besides the officers in the army.—(Clarendon's
History of the Rebellion, vol. iii., p. 144.)
19. V of Spades.
“Nye and Godwin, Oliver's Confessors.”
In “an ordinance appointing Commissioners for approbation of
Publique Preachers,” printed by “William Du Gard and Henry Hills,
printers to His Highness the Lord Protector” 1653, appear the names
of Dr Thomas Goodwin and Mr Philip Ny as Commissioners for such
approbation. A copy of the pamphlet is in my possession, and it will
be reprinted by the Clarendon Historical Society at an early date.
20. V of Diamonds.
“Sir W. Waller looses two armys yet getts by ye bargaine.”
Sir William Waller was defeated at the battle of Roundway Down
by Lord Wilmot, losing 600 killed, 900 prisoners, all their cannon, arms,
ammunition, and baggage. He was again defeated at Cropredy Bridge,
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by the army under the King in person, when he again lost all his
artillery. He was however, subsequently named Lieutenant of Ire-
land.—(Clarendon's History of the Rebellion, vol. ii., p. 179; p. 311 ; and
vol. iii., p. 70.) • .
21. VI of Hearts.
“Worsley an Inckle Weaver A man of personal valor.”
Worsley, one of Cromwell's Major-Generals, and a most dear friend of
his, was the first M.P. for Manchester, and his statue is in the Town Hall
The incles were tapes; and the word comes into Shakespeare's
Winter's Tale. The word is now very little known, except in a proverb,
“As thick (i.e. as intimate) as Incle-weavers.” I do not see this pack
mentioned in the History of Playing Cards. Can the date of publication
be proved? It looks as if they were intended to keep up the spirit
of the Cavaliers in depressed times.—Communicated by John Bailey,
Esq., F.S.A., Manchester.
22, VI of Clubs.
“Desbrow Olivers Champion haueing a cannon in each pocket.”
With reference to the proposal in Parliament to elect Cromwell
King, Clarendon observes: “That which put an end to the present
debate was that some of his own family who had grown up under him,
and had their whole dependance upon him, as Desborough, Fleetwood,
Whaley, and others, passionately contradicted the motion.”—(Clarendon's
IIistory of the Rebellion, vol. iii., page 339.)
23. VI of Spades.
“Skippon a waggoner to Sº F. Were one of Olivers Hectors.”
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of Essex, when the latter fled from Fowey to Plymouth. Skippon
surrendered all his Artillery, 100 barrels of powder, and about 6000
arms (muskets) on condition that the officers should be convoyed in
safety to Poole or Southampton. Skippon was originally a waggoner,
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“Kelsey, a Sneeking Bodice maker a gifted Brother.”
On October 17, 1645, a “summons to surrender was sent to the
Garrison (of Langford House, near Salisbury) and fair and equal
conditions were speedily agreed upon, Lieutenant Colonel Hewson and
Major Kelsey being deputed to act for Cromwell.”—(Godwin's Civil
War in Hampshire, page 248.) This is probably the individual
alluded to.
25. VII of Hearts.
“Nathaniel Fines whereby hangs a tale.”
“Colonel Nathaniel Fiemmes, brother of Lord Say and Sele, who had
been educated at Winchester College, and had been admitted to a
Fellowship at New College, Oxford, in quality of Founder's kin, sur-
rendered Bristol to Prince Rupert on 26 July (1643) and on the last
day of the same month reached Southampton, at the head of 80 horse,
each of whom had a woman riding behind him.”—(Mercurius Alicus,
August 5, 1643.) This, I presume, is the tale alluded to.
26. VII Of Clubs,
“Harrison the Carpenter cutting down ye horne of ye beast in Daniel.”
Harrison was the son of a butcher near Nantwich, in Cheshire, and
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page 141.) Of the beast in Daniel, it is said, “I beheld, and the same
horm made war with the Saints . . . . but the judgment shall sit,
and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it
unto the end.”—(Daniel, chap. vii., verses 21 and 26.)
27. VII of Spades.
“I’eek the Seer.”
Feek was one of Cromwell's officers, who at the celebrated meeting
at Windsor, in 1648, declared that in a vision the Almighty had
appeared to him and announced that Monarchy should never more
prevail in England.—(The Saints Triumph, 1648, page 3.)
28. VII of Diamonds.
“Marshall curseing Mevoz.”
At Edgehill, “the reverend and renowned Master Marshall, Master
Ask, Master Mourton, Masters Obadiah and John Sedgwick and Master
Wilkins, and divers others, eminently pious and learned pastors rode up
and down the army through the thickest dangers and in much personal
hazard most faithfully and courageously exhorting and encouraging the
soldiers to fight valiantly and not to fly, but now, if ever, to stand to it
and fight for their religion and laws.”—(Jehovah Jirah, by John Vicars,
p. 200.)
29. VIII of Hearts.
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30. VIII of Clubs.
“Pride Oliver's drayman.”
Parliament not proving willing to condemn Charles I., was purged of
its unruly members by Colonel Pride (who was said to have been
originally a drayman), who entered the house and drove 160 members
into the streets, leaving 60 of the faithful to govern the kingdom and
murder their monarch.—(Imprisonment and death of King Charles I.,
Aungervyle Society reprint, p. 58.)
31. VIII of Spades.
“Scot Oliver's clerk or tallyman.”
Scott was one of the members of the Long Parliament, and with
Robinson was sent to Monk to “give some check to that license of
addresses and resort of malignants.”—(Clarendon's Rebellion, vol. iii.,
p. 410.)
32. VIII of Diamonds.
“Don Haselrigg Kt. of y" codled braine.”
“Haselrigg was of a rude, and stubborn nature, and of a weak
understanding.”—(Clarendon's Rebellion, vol. iii., p. 401.)
33. IX of Hearts.
“ Huson the cobler entring London.”
Hewson, who had originally been a cobbler, became Lt.-Col. of
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“The army entring the city persuing the apprentices.”
Parliament had voted that “the militia of the city of London
should be put into such hands as the army should desire
Many thousands, apprentices and young citizens, brought petitions to
parliament” in opposition. Parliament “durst not deny concurrence,
the apprentices behaving themselves so insolently, that they would
scarce suffer the door of the House of Commons to be shut.”—
(Clarendon's Rebellion, vol. iii., p. 36.) The army assembled at
Hounslow Heath, and Colonel Rainsborough having seized in the
might the defences of London Bridge, “the army of horse, foot, and
cannon marched next day through the city.”—(Clarendon's Rebellion,
vol. iii., p. 39.)
35. IX of Spades.
“A Committee at Derby House to continue the warr.”
Parliament had appointed a committee “for the raising of men
- and listing in all places, companies of volunteers” which
met at Derby House.
36. IX of Diamonds.
“Lenthall runs away with his mace to the army.”
The Army having declared against the Committee of Safety,
Lenthall the Speaker recovered his spirit and went into the city
uniting with the army against the committee.—(Clarendon's Rebellion,
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37. X of Hearts.
“The Rump and dreggs of the House of Com. remaining after the good
Members were purged out.”
The explanation of this Card will be found above. (See VIII of
Clubs.)
38. X of Clubs.
“Oliver seeking God while the K. is murthered by his order.”
Cromwell, who signed the warrant for the Execution of Charles I., is .
said to have spent the might of the 29th of January, 1648, in prayer,
and to have taken good care to let his fanatic followers know it.
39. X of Spades.
“A comitte at Haberdashers hall to spoyle the caualeers, as the Jews did
the Egyptians.”
Parliament, after the battle of Edgehill, appointed a committee to sit
at Haberdashers Hall to consider the fines to be imposed upon those of
the King's adherents who had been taken prisoners there.
40. X of Diamonds.
“A comittee for plundered ministers, Miles Corbet in the chaire.”
This card speaks for itself.
41. Knave of Hearts.
“Hugh Peters shews the bodkins and thimbles given by the wives of
Wappin for the good old cause.”
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After some years spent in Holland and America, he returned in 1641,
and became chaplaim to Lord Brooke's regiment. He was a most
burlesque preacher, and actually performed the act stated on the card.
He styled the king Barabbas and compared the army to Christ. He
advised the destruction of Stonehenge. Clarendon calls him the
“ungodly confessor” who contrived the tragedy of the two Hothams
(Rebellion, vol. ii., p. 383). He is said to have been one of the masked
“executioners of Charles I. He was beheaded October 16, 1660, and
certainly deserved his fate if any of the Regicides did.
42. Knave of Clubs.
“Ireton holds that Saints may pass through all forms to obtain his ends.”
Ireton was born in 1610, and commanded the left wing of the
Parliamentarians at Naseby. He married a daughter of Oliver
Cromwell, whom he succeeded as Commander-in-Chief in Ireland, where
he died in 1651.
43. Knave of Spades.
“Sir H. Vane finds a distinction betwict a Legal and an Evangelical
Conscience.”
Vane was the principal mover of the Solemn League and Covenant,
but did not sit on the King's trial.
44. Knave of Diamonds.
“II. Martin moué8 y” House that y” King may take the Covenant.”
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45. Queen of Hearts.
“The damnable engagement to be true and faithfull.”
The taking of the Holy League and Covenant. (See Queen of
Diamonds.)
46. Queen of Clubs.
“Joane hold my staff Lady Protectoresse.”
Another riddle. Cromwell's wife's name was Elizabeth. Query, what
was Lady Lambert's name 7 (See newt card.)
47. Queen of Spades.
“The lady Lambert and Oliver under a strong conflict.”
It was said that an improper intimacy existed between Cromwell and
Lambert's wife, but although the Protector is known to have been
somewhat profligate in his youth, this charge seems to be mere
calumny.
48. Queen of Diamonds.
“The Takeing of the Holy League and Covenant.”
The Holy League and Covenant between England and Scotland was
Solemnly adopted by Parliament on the 16th of November 1643. It
was accepted by Charles II, in 1650, but repudiated by him at his
Restoration, and declared to be illegal by Parliament.—(Clarendon's
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“The saints think it meet that the Rump make a league with Oneale.”
Lord Broghill, president of Munster, and Sir Charles Coote, president
of Connaught, had shewn enmity to the Rump, who thereupon
coquetted with the Irish party.—(Clarendon's Rebellion, vol. iii., p.
434.)
50. King of Clubs.
“Oliver declars himself, and the Rebells to be the Gadly party.”
This card needs no explanation.
51. King of Spades.
“Bradshaw in yº High Court of Justice insulting of the King.”
“The King demanded by what authority they brought him thither,
the President answered that they derived their authority from an act
made by the Commons . . . . The King demurred to the juris-
diction of the Court, but the President overruled this.” When the
iniquitous sentence was read, “The King would have spoken something
before he was withdrawn, but being accounted dead in law immediately
after sentence was pronounced, it was not permitted.”— (Ludlow's
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52. King of Diamonds.
“Sir H. Mildmay solicits a Cityzen's wife, for which his owne
corrects him.”
On September 9, 1641, the House of Commons appointed Pym,
St. John, Sir H. Mildmay, Sir H. Vane, and others (six to form a
quorum), as a Committee, with extraordinary powers, to act during the
recess, “To draw resort and reverence to them from almost all sorts of
men.” Mildmay is said to have used his political power to further his
own projects of lust and greed.—(Clarendon's Rebellion, vol. i., pp. 168
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