Excerpt from Appendix to the History of Great Britain, From the Revolution, 1688, to the Treaty of Amiens, 1802, Vol. 1 of 2

Monk being determined to restore the king, a determination certainly just and laudable, resolved at the same time to effect his purpose, not in the mode most beneficial to the country, but most agreeable to the monarch, and most advantageous to himself.

A sort of infatuation seems to have seized the leaders of the presbyterians, who constituted by far the majority of the convention. Many of them relying upon their merit in accomplishing the Restoration, and cajoled by the court party, entertained great expectations of favor and reward. Some who were less sanguine depended on such a liberty as the protestants enjoyed in France, but others, who were better acquainted with the principles and tempers of the prelates, declared, "that they expected to be silenced, imprisoned, and banished, but yet they would do their parts to restore the king, because no foreseen ill consequence ought to hinder them from doing their duty, " so that the most zealous churchman could scarcely carry his ideas of loyalty to a more extravagant or pernicious height. They would neither hear, nor sec, nor be persuaded, till it was too late. Of this number was the celebrated Baxter, who, in speaking of the letters of several preachers of the reformed churches abroad, to himself and others, in favor of the king, thus expresses his sentiments: "These divines know nothing of the state of affairs in England, they know not those men who arc to be restored with the king.

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