Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon

Alien

The prince was totally aliened from all thoughts of . . . the marriage.

Alive

Northumberland was the proudest man alive.

Anger

Taxes and impositions . . . which rather angered than grieved the people.

Animadversion

He dismissed their commissioners with severe and sharp animadversions.

Appall

The house of peers was somewhat appalled at this alarum.

Attend

He was required to attend upon the committee.

Barbarous

By their barbarous usage he died within a few days, to the grief of all that knew him.

Bed

George, the eldest son of his second bed.

Behalf

Against whom he had contracted some prejudice in behalf of his nation.

Beseem

A duty well beseeming the preachers.

Board

Both better acquainted with affairs than any other who sat then at that board.

Body

The van of the king's army was led by the general; . . . in the body was the king and the prince.

Carry

He carried himself so insolently in the house, and out of the house, to all persons, that he became odious.

Caution

The Parliament would yet give his majesty sufficient caution that the war should be prosecuted.

Classis

His opinion of that classis of men.

Commit

These two were committed.

Commitment

They were glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower, whence he was within few days enlarged.

Communicate

He communicated those thoughts only with the Lord Digby.

Compliance

A man of few words and of great compliance.

Compound

They were at last glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower.

Compunction

He acknowledged his disloyalty to the king, with expressions of great compunction.

Concerning

He married a daughter to the earl without any other approbation of her father or concernment in it, than suffering him and her come into his presence.

Conflux

The general conflux and concourse of the whole people.

Conservator

The lords of the secret council were likewise made conservators of the peace of the two kingdoms.

Constitution

He defended himself with . . . less passion than was expected from his constitution.

Consult

Manythings were there consulted for the future, yet nothing was positively resolved.

Contestation

After years spent in domestic, unsociable contestations, she found means to withdraw.

Conveyance

[He] found the conveyances in law to be so firm, that in justice he must decree the land to the earl.

Counselable

Few men of so great parts were upon all occasions more counselable than he.

He did not believe it counselable.

Cover

Being compelled to lodge in the field . . . whilst his army was under cover, they might be forced to retire.

Cozen

Goring loved no man so well but that he would cozen him, and expose him to public mirth for having been cozened.

Cradle

A form of worship in which they had been educated from their cradles.

Credit

Having credit enough with his master to provide for his own interest.

Damage

He . . . came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship.

Dedicate

The profession of a soldier, to which he had dedicated himself.

Deep

The ways in that vale were very deep.

Defend

A village near it was defended by the river.

Degradation

He saw many removes and degradations in all the other offices of which he had been possessed.

Demean

They answered . . . that they should demean themselves according to their instructions.

Demonstrably

Cases that demonstrably concerned the public cause.

Disaffect

They had attempted to disaffect and discontent his majesty's late army.

Discerner

A great observer and discerner of men's natures.

Discipline

Ill armed, and worse disciplined.

Discountenance

He thought a little discountenance on those persons would suppress that spirit.

disentangle

To extricate and disentangle themselves out of this labyrinth.

Disfavor

He might dispense favors and disfavors.

Disincline

Careful . . . to disincline them from any reverence or affection to the Queen.

Dispassionate

Wise and dispassionate men.

Distinct

The intention was that the two armies which marched out together should afterward be distinct.

Disunion

Such a disunion between the two houses as might much clou the happiness of this kingdom.

Drake

Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger.

Eclaircissement

The eclaircissement ended in the discovery of the informer.

Enlargement

An enlargement upon the vices and corruptions that were got into the army.

Entire

No man had ever a heart more entire to the king.

Equal

The Scots trusted not their own numbers as equal to fight with the English.

Exhibit

He suffered his attorney-general to exhibit a charge of high treason against the earl.

Expiate

The Treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury.

Faction

They remained at Newbury in great faction among themselves.

Favorable

A place very favorable for the making levies of men.

Halt

Without any halt they marched.

Hand

To change the hand in carrying on the war.

Hardiness

They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the contempt of the king.

Haughty

A woman of a haughty and imperious nature.

High

His forces, after all the high discourses, amounted really but to eighteen hundred foot.

Illimited

The absoluteness and illimitedness of his commission was generally much spoken of.

Indispose

The king was sufficiently indisposed towards the persons, or the principles, of Calvin's disciples.

Indoctrinate

A master that . . . took much delight in indoctrinating his young, unexperienced favorite.

Infatuate

The judgment of God will be very visible in infatuating a people . . . ripe and prepared for destruction.

Infringement

The punishing of this infringement is proper to that jurisdiction against which the contempt is.

Inhibit

All men were inhibited, by proclamation, at the dissolution, so much as to mention a Parliament.

Inkling

They had some inkling of secret messages.

Inroad

The loss of Shrewsbury exposed all North Wales to the daily inroads of the enemy.

Insinuate

He insinuated himself into the very good grace of the Duke of Buckingham.

Insinuation

He bad a natural insinuation and address which made him acceptable in the best company.

Intelligence

He lived rather in a fair intelligence than any friendship with the favorites.

Judicatory

The supreme court of judicatory.

Length

He had marched to the length of Exeter.

Like

Many were not easy to be governed, nor like to conform themselves to strict rules.

Loyalty

He had such loyalty to the king as the law required.

Matter

Waller, with Sir William Balfour, exceeded in horse, but were, upon the whole matter, equal in foot.

measure

His majesty found what wrong measures he had taken in the conferring that trust, and lamented his error.

Molder

If he had sat still, the enemy's army would have moldered to nothing.

Name

The king's army . . . had left no good name behind.

Necessitate

The Marquis of Newcastle, being pressed on both sides, was necessitated to draw all his army into York.

Necessity

The extreme poverty and necessity his majesty was in.

Nomination

The nomination of persons to places being . . . a flower of his crown, he would reserve to himself.

Obstruction

The king expected to meet with all the obstructions and difficulties his enraged enemies could lay in his way.

Odious

He rendered himself odious to the Parliament.

Oppugn

They said the manner of their impeachment they could not but conceive did oppugn the rights of Parliament.

Order

Upon this new fright, an order was made by both houses for disarming all the papists in England.

Ourselves

Unless we would denude ourself of all force.

Overrule

His passion and animosity overruled his conscience.

Pains

The pains they had taken was very great.

Particle

The houses had not given their commissioners authority in the least particle to recede.

Pass

Waller passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge.

Passport

Caution in granting passports to Ireland.

Petulance

Like pride in some, and like petulance in others.

Prejudicial

His going away . . . was most prejudicial and most ruinous to the king's affairs.

Prevail

He was prevailed with to restrain the Earl.

Prevalence

The duke better knew what kind of argument were of prevalence with him.

Proffer

He made a proffer to lay down his commission.

Prompt

Very discerning and prompt in giving orders.

Quality

He had those qualities of horsemanship, dancing, and fencing which accompany a good breeding.

Quarter

He magnified his own clemency, now they were at his mercy, to offer them quarter for their lives.

Raise

This gentleman came to be raised to great titles.

Rate

Many of the horse could not march at that rate, nor come up soon enough.

Regret

Never any prince expressed a more lively regret for the loss of a servant.

Rendezvous

The king appointed his whole army to be drawn together to a rendezvous at Marlborough.

Repair

The king sent a proclamation for their repair to their houses.

Reprieve

The morning Sir John Hotham was to die, a reprieve was sent to suspend the execution for three days.

Resort

The king thought it time to resort to other counsels.

Restrain

Though they two were committed, at least restrained of their liberty.

Return

Instead of a ship, he should levy money, and return the same to the treasurer for his majesty's use.

Rip

They ripped up all that had been done from the beginning of the rebellion.

Rough

A quicker and rougher remedy.

Rout

That party . . . that charged the Scots, so totally routed and defeated their whole army, that they fied.

Run

He would himself be in the Highlands to receive them, and run his fortune with them.

Senseless

They would repent this their senseless perverseness when it would be too late.

Set

Some rules were to be set down for the government of the army.

Short

He commanded those who were appointed to attend him to be ready by a short day.

Shortly

The armies came shortly in view of each other.

Shot

He caused twenty shot of his greatest cannon to be made at the king's army.

Silence

This would silence all further opposition.

Solicitous

The colonel had been intent upon other things, and not enough solicitous to finish the fortifications.

Speak

Many of the nobility made themselves popular by speaking in Parliament against those things which were most grateful to his majesty.

Stout

He lost the character of a bold, stout, magnanimous man.

Suffer

The father was first condemned to suffer upon a day appointed, and the son afterwards the day following.

Swerve

They swerve from the strict letter of the law.

Tergiversation

The colonel, after all his tergiversations, lost his life in the king's service.

Terrible

The terrible coldness of the season.

Time

She was within one month of her time.

To

Numbers were crowded to death.

Transplant

Being transplanted out of his cold, barren diocese of St. David into a warmer climate.

Treasonable

Most men's heads had been intoxicated with imaginations of plots and treasonable practices.

Understanding

He hoped the loyalty of his subjects would concur with him in the preserving of a good understanding between him and his people.

Ungracious

Anything of grace toward the Irish rebels was as ungracious at Oxford as at London.

Unite

The king proposed nothing more than to unite his kingdom in one form of worship.

Value

Neither of them valued their promises according to rules of honor or integrity.

Vanquish

They . . . vanquished the rebels in all encounters.

Visible

The factions at court were greater, or more visible, than before.

Void

It was become a practice . . . to void the security that was at any time given for money so borrowed.

Wed

They positively and concernedly wedded his cause.

Whereupon

The townsmen mutinied and sent to Essex; whereupon he came thither.

Wring

Too much grieved and wrung by an uneasy and strait fortune.