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"of this defeat arrived whilst they were deliberating on my advancement, and it was to me a double defeat. I had nearly funken under "the affliction, but that I had a deare and a "fweet comforter; and I did at that time

prove according to Ecclefiafticus, chap. xxvi. A vir"tuous woman rejoiceth her husband: as the fun "when it arifeth in the high heaven, fo is the beauty of a good wife. Verfe 16."

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Sir William in the conclufion of this very cu rious and valuable little work, in what he calls his " Daily Directory," has these reflections :Every day is a little life, in the account whereof "we may reckon our birth from the wombe of "the morning; our growing time from thence "to noon (when we are as the fun in his ftrength); "after which like a fhadow that declineth, we "haften to the evening of our age, til at last

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we close our eyes in fleep, the image of death; "and our whole life is but this tale of a day "told over and over. I fhould therefore fo

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spend every day, as if it were all the life "I had to live; and in pursuance of this end, "and of the vow I have made to walke with "God in a clofer communion than I have

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formerly done, I would endeavour, by his grace, to obferve in the course of my remaining fpann, or rather inche of life, this daily "directory:

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"To awake with God as early as I can, and "to confecrate the first-fruits of my thoughts "unto him by praier and meditation, and by "renewed acts of repentance, that fo God may "awake from me, and make the habitation of "my righteousness profperous. To this end I "would make it my care to lye down the night "before in the peace of God, who hath pro"mifed that his commandment fhall keep me "when awake, otherwise it may be justly feared "that those corruptions that bid me laft good"night will be ready to give me first good to"morrow."

"Sir William Waller," fays Sir Philip Warwick, who knew him perfonally," was a gen"tleman of courage and of parts, and of a civil "and ceremonious behaviour. He held a gain"ful farm from the Crown of the butlerage and

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prifage of wines; but upon a quarrel between "him and Sir Thomas Reynolds, a courtier, "who had an interest in the farm of the wine "licences, upon whom Waller having used his "cudgel, and being cenfured and fined for it in "the Star Chamber, and having a zealous lady, "who used to call him her man of God, he engaged on the Parliament fide."

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This great leader of the Parliamentary forces, in his "Recollections," pays the following tribute

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bute of regard to the exertions and tenderness of his wife:

"I have been," fays he, " in prifons frequent; "feized upon by the army, as I was going to "discharge my duty in the House of Commons, "and, contrary to priviledg of Parliament, made "a prisoner in the Queen's Court; from thence "carried ignominiously to a place under the

Exchequer called Hell, and the next day to "the King's Head in the Strand; after, singled out, (as a sheep to the flaughter,) and removed "to St. James's; then fent to Windsor Castle, " and remanded to St. James's againe; laftly ❝toffed, like a ball, into a strange country, to "Denbigh Caftle in North Wales, remote from

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my relations and interefts. After above three years imprisonment, and thus being changed "as itt were from veffel to veffel, itt pleafed the "Lord to turne my captivity, and to restore me "to the comforts of my poore family again. "And here let me call to mind how much rea"fon I had to be thankful to Him who chafteneth "those whom he loveth, for the great confolation experienced in the dear partner of my

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captivity. She came to me difguifed in mean "apparel, when I had groaned in my bonds feven months, thinking it the duty of a wife to riske "all things for the fatisfaction of her husband. "Much difficulty had fhe in comming, and was "frequent

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"frequent on the brink of being discovered; "but at length, over mountains and unknown "roads, fometimes with a guide and fometimes "with none, fhe arrived att my prison; and "the feemed, when the discovered herself to me, "to be like the Angell who appeared unto Peter "in like circumftances. She did not, indeed, "bid my prifon-gates fly open, but by her sweete "converse and behaviour she made those things "feem light which were before heavy, and scarce "to be borne. I must ever acknowledg itt alfo "a very great mercy, that being fo long fubject "to fo great a malice, armed with fo great power, "I was not given as a prey to their teeth; and "that after all the indeavours that were used to

finde out matter of charge against me, I came "off with an intire innocency, not only uncon "demned, but unaccused."

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JOYCE.

LILLY, in the History of his Life and Times, fays, "The next Sunday after Charles the First "was beheaded, Robert Spavin, Secretary to "Oliver Cromwell, invited himself to dine with

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me, and brought Anthony Peirfon, and several "others, along with him to dinner; and that

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"the principal discourse at dinner was only, Who "it was that beheaded the King? One faid it "was the common hangman; another, Hugh "Peters; others alfo were nominated, but none "concluded. Robert Spavin, so soon as dinner 66 was done, took me by the hand, and carried "me to the fouth window. These are all mif. "taken, faith he; they have not named the man "that did the fact. It was Lieutenant-Colonel "Joyce. I was in the room when he fitted him"felf for the work, ftood behind him when he "did it, when done went in again with him, "There is no man knows this but my master "Cromwell, Commiffary Ireton, and myself.→ "Doth not Mr. Rufhworth know it? quoth I. "No; he did not know it, faid Spavin. The "fame thing," adds Lilly, Spavin fince had

❝often related unto me when we were alone."

Colonel, then Cornet Joyce feized upon the perfon of the King at Holmby; and when his Majefty required him to fhew him his commiffion, Joyce pointed to the foldiers that attended him."Believe me, Sir," replied Charles," your in"ftructions are written in a very legible charac"ter." The King feeing Lord Fairfax and Cromwell foon afterwards, asked them, Whether they had commiffioned Joyce to remove him to Royston, where the quarters of the army then were?

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