ere
forfeited. Some were allowed to "compound," i.e. to keep part of their
estates on payment of a sum of money.
p. 253, l. 32. Montrose had created a Royalist party in Scotland and
was fighting there for the King.
p. 258, l. 1. The "forlorn" was a body of men sent in advance of an
expedition.
p. 272, l. 21. After the defeat of the Royalists dissension arose
between the parliament and the army and naturally the army was able to
coerce the parliament.
p. 274, l. 2. Cornet Joyce secured the person of the King by the order
of Cromwell, the idol of the army.
p. 274, l. 26. The Cavalier exaggerates the likelihood of an
understanding between the King and the parliament. In reality Charles
was merely playing off one party against the other.
p. 275, l. 7. In January 1648 parliament had passed a vote of "No
Addresses," renouncing any further negotiation with the King, but
after the second civil war of that year (in which the Presbyterians
joined the King) they resumed them again in the Treaty of Newport.
The army however became more violent, and the result was the forcible
exclusion of all moderate members of parliament in "Pride's Purge,"
December 1648. The trial and execution of the King followed.
p. 275, l. 35. The Cavalier refers to the acts of retaliation which
followed the Restoration of Charles II.
p. 276, l. 27. There were many republicans among the "Independents"
or "Sectaries" in the army, but the policy actually carried out can
hardly have been planned before the war.
p. 278, l. 5. Cardinal Bellarmine was one of the great
Controversialists of the Counter-Reformation.
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