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sentence. Not a word was to be' found indicating that threeyears of banishment had made the King wiser, that he had re- -pented of a single error, that he took to himself even thesmallest part of the blame of that revolution which had de-throned him, or that he purposed to follow a course in any re-spect differing from that which had already been fatal to him.All the charges which had been brought against him he pro-nounced to be utterly unfounded. Wicked men had put forthcalumnies. Weak men had believed those calumnies. He alonehad been faultless. He held out no hope that he would consentto any restriction of that vast dispensing power to which he hadformerly laid claim, that he would not again, in defiance of theplainest statutes, fill the Privy Council, the bench of justice,the public offices, the army, the navy, with Papists, that hewould not reestablish the High Commission, that he would notappoint a new set of regulators to remodel all the constituentbodies of the kingdom. He did indeed condescend to say' thathe v'ould maintain the legal rights of the Church of England:but he had said this before; and all men knew what those wordsmeant in his mouth. Instead of assuring his people of his for-giveness, he menaced them with a proscription more terriblethan any which our island had ever seen. He published a listof persons who had no mercy to expect. Among these wereOrmond, Caermarthen, Nottingham, Tillotson and Burnet.After the roll of those who were doomed to death by name, camea series of categories. First stood all the crowd of rustics whohad been rude to His Majesty when he was stopped atSheernessin his flight. These poor ignorant wretches, some hundreds innumber, w r ere reserved for another bloody circuit. Then cameall persons who had in any manner borne a part in the punish-ment of any Jacobite conspirator; judges, counsel, witnesses,grand jurymen, petty jurymen, sheriffs and undersheriffs, con-stables and turnkeys, in short, all the ministers of justice from

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