The History of the Parliament of England, Which Began November 3, 1640

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Excerpt from The History of the Parliament of England, Which Began November 3, 1640: With a Short and Necessary View of Some Precedent Years The subject of this work is a civil war, a war indeed as much more than civil, and as full of miracle, both in the causes and effects of it, as was ever observed in any age, a war as cruel as unnatural, that has produced as much rage of swords, as much bitterness of pens, both public and pri vate, as was ever known, and has divided the understand ings of men, as well as their affections, in so high a degree, that scarce could any virtue gain due applause, any reason give satisfaction, or any relation obtain credit, unless amongst men of the same side. It were therefore a presumptuous madness to think that this poor and weak discourse, which can deserve no applause from either side, should obtain from both so much as pardon, or that those persons should agree in the judgment they will form of it who could never agree in any thing else. I cannot therefore be so stupid as not to be fully sensible of the dificulty of the task imposed on me, or the great envy which attends it, which other men who have written histories, upon far less occasion, have discoursed of at large in their prefaces. And Tacitus himself, complaining of those ill times which were the unhappy subject of his Annals, (though he wrote not in the time of the same princes under whom those things were acted, ) yet (because the families of many men who had then been ignominious were yet in being) could not but discourse how much happier these writers had been, who had taken more ancient and prosperous times for their argu ment, such (as be there expresses it) as those times in which the great and glorious actions of the old Romans, their honour able achievements, and exemplary virtues, are recorded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.