year, but though both the king and the duke advised him to take it he very worthily refused it. He took too much upon him and meddled in everything, which was his greatest error. He fell under the hatred of most of the cavaliers upon two accounts. The one was the act of indemnity which cut off all their hopes of repairing themselves of the estates of those that had been in the rebellion, but he said it was the offer of the indemnity that brought in the king and it was the observing of it that must keep him in, so he would never let that be touched, and many that had been deeply engaged in the late times having expiated it by their zeal of bringing home the king were promoted by his means, such as Manchester, Anglesey, Orrery, Ashley, Holles, and several others. The other thing was that, there being an infinite number of pretenders to employments and rewards for their services and sufferings, so that the king could only satisfy some few of them, he upon that, to stand between the king and the displeasure which those disappointments had given, spoke slightly of many of them and took it upon him that their petitions were not granted; and some of them having procured several warrants from the secretaries for the same thing (the secretaries considering nothing but their fees), he who knew on whom the king intended that the grant should fall, took all upon him, so that those who were disappointed laid the blame chiefly if not wholly upon him. He was apt to talk very imperiously and unmercifully, so that his manner of dealing with people was as provoking as the hard things themselves were; but upon the whole matter he was a true Englishman and a sincere protestant, and what has passed at court since his disgrace has sufficiently vindicated him from all ill designs' (_Supplement_, ed. Foxcroft, pp. 53-6). There is a short character of Clarendon in Warwick's _Mémoires_, pp. 196-8; compare also Pepys's _Diary_, October 13, 1666, and Evelyn's _Diary_, August 27, 1667, and September 18, 1683. 66. Clarendon, MS. Life, pp. 638-9; _Continuation of the Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon_, ed. 1759, pp. 51-2. Page 226, l. 8. He was released from Windsor Castle in March 1660. Compare Burnet's character, p. 228, ll. 2-4. l. 19. _the Chancellour_, i.e. Clarendon himself. Page 227, ll. 5 ff. John Middleton (1619-74), created Earl of Middleton, 1656. He was taken prisoner at Worcester, but escaped to France. As Lord High Commissioner for Scotland and Commander-in-chief, he was mainly responsible for the unfortunate methods of forcing episcopacy on Scotland. William Cunningham (1610-64), ninth Earl of Glencairn, Lord Chancellor of Scotland. John Leslie (1630-81), seventh Earl and first Duke of Rothes, President of the Council in Scotland; Lord Chancellor, 1667. On the composition of the ministry in Scotland, compare Burnet, ed. Osmund Airy, vol. i, pp. 199, ff. 67. Burnet's History of His Own Time. Vol. i. (pp. 101-2.)