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1ST See also:EARL OF See also:EDWARD See also:HYDE See also:CLARENDON (1609-1674)
, See also:English historian and statesman, son of See also:
in 164o as member for Wootton Bassett
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Respect and veneration for the law and constitution of See also:England were already fundamental principles with Hyde, and the flagrant violations and perversions of the law which characterized the twelve preceding years of See also:absolute See also:rule drove him into the ranks of the popular party
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He served on numerous and important committees, and his See also:parliamentary See also:action was directed chiefly to-wards the support and restoration of the law
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He assailed the See also:jurisdiction of the See also:earl See also:marshal's See also:court, and in the See also:Long Parliament, in which he sat for See also:Saltash, renewed his attacks and practically effected its suppression
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In 1641 he served on the committees for inquiring into the status of the See also:councils of See also:Wales and of the See also:North, distinguished himself by a speech against the latter, and took an important See also:part in the proceedings against the See also:judges
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He supported See also:Strafford's See also:impeachment, and did not See also:vote against the See also:attainder, subsequently making an unsuccessful See also:attempt through See also:Essex to avert the See also:capital See also:penalty)
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Hyde's See also:allegiance, however, to the See also:
He now definitely though not openly joined the royal cause, and refused office in See also:January 1642 with See also:Colepeper and Falkland in order to serve the king's interests more effectually
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See also:
February he was made a privy councillor and knighted, and on the 3rd of March appointed See also:chancellor of the See also:exchequer
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He was an influential member of the " Junto " which met every See also:week to discuss business before it was laid before the See also:council
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His aim was to gain over some of the leading Parliamentarians by See also:personal influence and personal considerations, and at the See also:Uxbridge negotiations in January 1645, where he acted as See also:principal manager on the king's See also:side, while remaining See also:firm on the great See also:political questions such as the church and the See also:militia, he tried to win individuals by promises of places and honours
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He promoted the See also:assembly of the Oxford parliament in December 1643 as a counterpoise to the influence and status of the Long Parliament
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Hyde's policy and measures, however, all failed
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They had been weakly and irregularly supported by the king, and were fiercely opposed by the military party, who were jealous of the See also:civil influence, and were urging Charles to See also:trust to force and arms alone and eschew all See also:compromise and concessions
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Charles See also:fell now under the influence of persons devoid of all legal and constitutional scruples, sending to Glamorgan in See also:Ireland " those See also:strange See also:powers and instructions inexcusable to See also:justice, piety and prudence." 2
'Hyde's influence was much diminished, and on the 4th of March 1645 he See also:left the king for See also:Bristol as one of the guardians of the See also:prince of Wales and See also:governors of the See also:west
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Here the disputes between the council and the See also:army paralysed the proceedings, and lost, according to Hyde, the finest opportunity since the outbreak of the war of raising a strong force and gaining substantial victories in that part of the See also:country
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After See also:Hopton's defeat on the 16th of February 1646, at See also:Torrington, Hyde accompanied the prince, on the 4th of March, to Scilly, and on the 17th of See also:April, for greater See also:security, to See also:Jersey
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He strongly disapproved of the prince's removal to See also:France by the queen's order and of the schemes of assistance from abroad, refused to accompany him, and signed a See also:bond to prevent the See also:sale of Jersey to the See also:French supported by Jermyn
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He opposed the projected See also:sacrifice of the church to the Scots and the See also:
While in Jersey he resided first at St Helier and afterwards at See also: 337 . 3 Ibid . against them, and they were ordered to leave in December 165o . Hyde arrived at See also:Antwerp in January 1651, and in December rejoined Charles at Paris after the latter's See also:escape from See also:Worcester . He now became one of his See also:chief advisers, accompanying him in his See also:change of See also:residence to See also:Cologne in October 1654 and to See also:Bruges in 165$, and was appointed lord chancellor on the 13th of January 1658 . His influence was henceforth maintained in spite of the intrigues of both Romanists and Presbyterians, as well as the violent and openly displayed hostility of the queen, and was employed unremittingly in the endeavour to keep Charles faithful to the church and constitution, and in the prevention of unwise concessions and promises which might estrange the general See also:body of the royalists . His advice to Charles was to wait upon the turn of events, " that all his activity was to consist in carefully avoiding to do anything that might do him hurt and to expect some blessed conjuncture."1 In 1656, during the war between England and Spain, Charles received offers of help from the latter See also:power provided he could gain a port in England, but Hyde discouraged small isolated attempts . He expected much from Cromwell's death . The same See also:year he made an alliance with the See also:Levellers, and was informed of their plots to assassinate the See also:protector, without apparently expressing any disapproval.2 He was well supplied with See also:information from England,3 and guided the action of the royalists with great ability and See also:wisdom during the See also:interval between Cromwell's death and the Restoration, urged See also:patience, and advocated the obstruction of a See also:settlement between the factions contending for power and the fomentation of their jealousies, rather than premature risings . The Restoration was a See also:complete See also:triumph for Hyde's policy . He See also:lays no stress on his own great part in it, but it was owing to him that the Restoration was a See also:national one, by the consent and invitation of parliament representing the whole See also:people and not through the See also:medium of one powerful faction enforcing its will upon a minority, and that it was not only a restoration of Charles but a restoration of the monarchy . By Hyde's advice concessions to the inconvenient demands of special factions had been avoided by referring the decision to a " See also:free parliament," and the See also:declaration of .
See also:Breda reserved for parliament the settlement of the questions of See also:amnesty, religious See also:toleration and the proprietorship of forfeited lands
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Hyde entered London with the king, all attempts at effecting his fall having failed, and immediately obtained the chief See also:place in the government, retaining the chancellorship of the exchequer till the 13th cif May 1661, when he surrendered it to Lord See also:Ashley
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He took his seat as See also:speaker of the House of Lords and in the court of See also:chancery on the 1st of June 166o
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On the 3rd of November 166o he was made See also:Baron Hyde of Hindon, and on the loth of April 1661 See also:Viscount Cornbury and earl of Clarendon, receiving a grant from the king of £20,000 and at different times of various small estates and Irish rents
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The See also:marriage of his daughter Anne to See also: See also:Comm.: MSS. of F . W . Leyborne-See also:Popham, 227 . ' Anne Hyde (1637-1671), eldest daughter of the chancellor, was the See also:mother by James of Queen See also:Mary and Queen Anne, besides six other See also:children, including four sons who all died in See also:infancy, She became a Roman Catholic in 167o shortly before her death, and was buried in the vault of Mary, queen of Scots, in Henry VII.'s See also:chapel in See also:Westminster See also:Abbey.moment by a common See also:loyalty to the See also:throne . Clarendon appears to have approved of comprehension but not of toleration . He had already in April 166o sent to discuss terms with the leading Presbyterians in England, and after the Restoration offered bishoprics to several, including See also:Richard See also:Baxter . He drew up the royal declaration of October, promising limited episcopacy and a revised See also:prayer-See also:book and See also:ritual, which was subsequently thrown out by parliament, and he appears to have anticipated some See also:kind of settlement from the See also:Savoy See also:Conference which sat in April 1661 . The failure of the latter proved perhaps that the See also:differences were too great for compromise, and widened the See also:breach . The parliament immediately proceeded to pass the See also:series of narrow and tyrannical measures against the dissenters known as the Clarendon See also:Code . The Corporations See also:Act, obliging members of corporations to denounce the See also:Covenant and take the See also:sacrament according to the See also:Anglican usage, became law on the loth of December 1661, the Act of Uniformity enforcing the use of the prayer-book on ministers, as well as a declaration that it was unlawful to See also:bear arms against the See also:sovereign, on the 19th of May 1662, and these were followed by the Conventicle Act in 1664 suppressing conventicles and by the Five-Mile Act in 1665 forbidding ministers who had refused subscription to the Act of Uniformity to See also:teach or reside within 5 M. of a See also:borough . Clarendon appears to have reluctantly acquiesced in these civil measures rather than to have originated them, and to have endeavoured to mitigate their injustice and severity . He supported the continuance of the See also:tenure by presbyterian ministers of livings not held by Anglicans and an See also:amendment in the Lords allowing a See also:pension to those deprived, earning the gratitude of Baxter and the nonconformists . On the 17th of March 1662 he introduced into parliament a declaration enabling the king to dispense with the Act of Uniformity in the See also:case of ministers of merit.' But once committed to the narrow policy of intolerance, Clarendon was inevitably involved in all its consevences . His characteristic respect for the Iaw and constitution rendered him hostile to the general policy of See also:indulgence, which, though the favourite project of the king, he strongly opposed in the Lords, and in the end caused its withdrawal . He declared that he could have wished the law otherwise, " but when it was passed, he thought it absolutely necessary to see obedience paid to it without any connivance." 6 Charles was greatly angered . It was believed in May 1663 that the intrigues of Bennet and See also:Buckingham, who seized the opportunity of ingratiating them-selves with the king by zealously supporting the indulgence, had secured Clarendon's dismissal, and in July Bristol ventured to accuse him of high See also:treason in the parliament; but the attack, which did not receive the king's support, failed entirely and only ended in the banishment from court of its See also:promoter . Clarendon's opposition to the court policy in this way acquired a personal See also:character, and he was compelled to identify himself more completely with the intolerant measures of the House of Commons . Though not the originator of the Conventicle Act or of the Five-Mile Act, he has recorded his approval, and he ended by taking alarm at plots and rumours and by regarding the great party of nonconformists, through whose co-operation the monarchy had been restored, as a danger to the state whose " faction was their religion." 8 Meanwhile Clarendon's influence and direction had been predominant in nearly all departments of state . He supported the exception of the actual regicides from the See also:Indemnity, but only ten out of the twenty-six condemned were executed, and Clarendon, with the king's support, prevented the passing of a bill in 1661 for the execution of thirteen more . He upheld the Act of Indemnity against all the attempts of the royalists to upset it . The conflicting claims to estates were left to be decided by the law . The confiscations of the usurping government accordingly were cancelled, while the properly executed transactions ' See Hist . MSS . Comm.: Various Collections, ii . 118, and MSS. of Duke of See also:Somerset, 94 . 6 Continuation, 339 . 7 lb . 511, 776 . 8 See also:Lister's Life of' larendon, ii . 295; Hist . MSS . Comm.: Various Collections, ii . 379 . between individuals were necessarily upheld . There can be little doubt that the principle followed was the only safe one in the prevailing confusion . Great injustice was indeed suffered by individuals, but the proper remedy of such injustice was the benevolence of the king, which there is too much See also:reason to believe proved inadequate and partial . The settlement of the church lands which was directed by Clarendon presented equal difficulties and involved equal hardships . In settling See also:Scotland Clarendon's aim was to make that See also:kingdom dependent upon England and to uphold the Cromwellian See also:union . He proposed to establish a council at See also:Whitehall to govern Scottish affairs, and showed great zeal in endeavouring to restore episcopacy through the medium of See also:Archbishop See also:Sharp . His influence, however, ended with the ascendancy of See also:Lauderdale in 1663 . He was, to some extent at least, responsible for the settlement in Ireland, but, while anxious for an See also:establishment upon a solid See also:Protestant basis, urged " See also:temper and moderation and justice " in securing it . He supported Ormonde's See also:wise and enlightened Irish See also:administration, and in particular opposed persistently the See also:prohibition of the import of Irish See also:cattle into England, incurring thereby great unpopularity . He showed great activity in the See also:advancement of the colonies, to whom he allowed full freedom of religion . He was a member of the council for See also:foreign plantations, and one of the eight lords proprietors of Carolina in 1663; and in 1664 sent a See also:commission to See also:settle disputes in New England . In the See also:department of foreign affairs he had less influence . His policy was limited to the See also:maintenance of peace " necessary for the reducing [the king's] own dominions into that temper of subjection and obedience as they ought to be in."' In 1664 he demanded, on behalf of Charles, French support, and a See also:loan of £50,000 against disturbance at See also:home, and thus initiated that ignominious See also:system of See also:pensions and dependence upon France which proved so injurious to English interests later . But he was the promoter neither of the sale of Dunkirk on the 27th of October 1662, the author of which seems to have been the earl of See also:Sandwich,2 nor of the Dutch War . He attached considerable value to the See also:possession of the former, but when its sale was decided he See also:con-ducted the negotiations and effected the bargain .
He had zealously laboured for peace with See also: ' Continuation, 1o66 . ° See also:Macaulay's Hist. of England, i . 193.so great at the council See also:board and in the administration of matters, there was no See also:room for anybody to propose any remedy to what was remiss . . . he managing all things with that greatness which will now be removed." 6 He disapproved of the system of boards and committees instituted during the See also:Commonwealth, as giving too much power to the parliament, and regarded the administration by the great See also:officers of state, to the exclusion of pure men of business, as the only method compatible with the dignity and security of the monarchy . The lowering of the See also:prestige of the privy council, and its subordination first to the parliament and afterwards to the military faction, he considered as one of the chief causes of the fall of Charles I . He aroused a strong feeling of hostility in the Commons by his opposition to the See also:appropriation of supplies in 1665, and to the See also:audit of the war accounts in 1666, as " an introduction to a commonwealth " and as " a new encroachment," and by his high See also:tone of See also:prerogative and authority, while by his advice to Charles to prorogue parliament he incurred their resentment and gave See also:colour to the See also:accusation that he had advised the king to govern without parliaments . He was unpopular among all classes, among the royalists on account of the Act of Indemnity, among the Presbyterians because of the Act of Uniformity . It was said that he had invented the See also:maxim " that the king should buy and See also:reward his enemies and do little for his friends, because they are his already . " 9 Every kind of maladministration was currently ascribed to him, of designs to govern by a See also:standing army, and of corruption . He was credited with having married Charles purposely to a barren queen in order to raise his own grandchildren to the throne, with having sold Dunkirk to France, and his magnificent house in St James's was nicknamed " Dunkirk House," while on the See also:day of the Dutch attack on Chatham the See also:mob set up a gibbet at his See also:gate and broke his windows . He had always been exceedingly unpopular at court, and kept severely aloof from the See also:revels and See also:licence which reigned there . See also:Evelyn names " the buffoons and the misses to whom he was an eyesore." 7 He was intensely disliked by the royal mistresses, whose favour he did not condescend to seek, and whose presence and influence were often the subject of his reproaches.$ A party of younger men of the king's own age, more congenial to his temperament, and eager to drive the old chancellor from power and to succeed him in office, had for some time been endeavouring to undermine his influence by ridicule and intrigue . Surrounded by such general and violent animosity, Clarendon's only See also:hope could be in the support of the king . But the chancellor had See also:early and accurately gauged the nature and extent of the king's See also:attachment to him, which proceeded neither from See also:affection nor gratitude but " from his aversion to be troubled with the intricacies of his affairs," and in 1661 he had resisted the importunities of Ormonde to resign the great See also:seal for the lord treasurership with the See also:rank of " first See also:minister," " a See also:title newly translated out of French into English," on account of the obloquy this position would incur and the further dependence which it entailed upon the inconstant king.9 Charles, long weary of the old chancellor's rebukes, was especially incensed at this time owing to his failure in securing Frances See also:Stuart (la Belle Stuart) for his seraglio, a disappointment which he attributed to Clarendon, and was now alarmed by the hostility which his administration had excited . He did not See also:scruple to sacrifice at once the old adherent of his house and fortunes . " The truth is," he wrote Ormonde, " his behaviour and See also:humour was grown so insupportable to myself and all the See also:world else that I could no longer endure it, and it was impossible for me to live with it and do these things with the Parliament that must be done, or the government will be lost." 19 By the direction of Charles, James advised Clarendon to resign before the See also:meeting of parliament, but in an interview with the king on the 26th of August Clarendon refused to deliver up the seal unless dismissed, and urged him not to take a step ruinous to the interests both of the chancellor See also:Pepys's See also:Diary, See also:Sept . 2, 1667 . e Hist . MSS . Comm., 7th See also:Rep . 162 . Diary, in . 95, 96 . 8 Lives from the Clarendon See also:Gallery, by See also:Lady Th . See also:Lewis, i . 39; See also:Burnet's Hist. of his own Times, i . 209 . 9 Continuation, 88 . 10 Lister's Life of Clarendon, ii . 416 . himself and of the crown.' He could not believe his dismissal was really intended, but on the 3oth of August he was deprived of the great seal, for which the king received the thanks of the parliament on the 16th of October . On the 12th of November his impeachment, consisting of various charges of arbitrary government, corruption and maladministration, was brought up to the Lords, but the latter refused to order his committal, on the ground that the Commons had only accused him of treason in general without specifying any particular See also:charge . Clarendon wrote humbly to the king asking for pardon, and that the See also:prosecution might be prevented, but Charles had openly taken part against him, and, though desiring his escape, would not order or assist his departure for fear of the Commons . Through the See also:bishop of See also:Hereford, however, on the 29th of November he pressed Clarendon to See also:fly, promising that he should not during his See also:absence suffer in his See also:honour or See also:fortune . Clarendon embarked the same See also:night for See also:Calais, where he arrived on the 2nd of December . The Lords immediately passed an act for his banishment and ordered the petition forwarded by him to parliament to be burnt . The See also:rest of Clarendon's life was passed in See also:exile . He left Calais for See also:Rouen on the 25th of December, returning on the 21st of January 1668, visiting the See also:baths of See also:Bourbon in April, thence to See also:Avignon in June, residing from July 1668 till June 1671 at See also:Montpellier, whence he proceeded to See also:Moulins and to Rouen again in May 1674 . His sudden banishment entailed great personal hardships . His See also:health at the time of his See also:flight was much impaired, and on arriving at Calais he fell dangerously See also:ill; and Louis XIV., anxious at this time to gain popularity in England, sent him See also:peremptory and repeated orders to quit France . He suffered severely from See also:gout, and during the greater part of his exile could not walk without the aid of two men . At See also:Evreux, on the 23rd of April 1668, he was the victim of a murderous See also:assault by English sailors, who attributed to him the non-See also:payment of their See also:wages, and who were on the point of despatching him when he was rescued by the guard . For some time he was not allowed to see any of his children; even correspondence with him was rendered treasonable by the Act of Banishment; and it was not apparently till 1671, 1673 and 1674 that he received visits from his sons, the younger, See also:Lawrence Hyde, being present with him at his death . Clarendon See also:bore his troubles with great dignity and fortitude . He found See also:consolation in religious duties, and devoted a portion of every day to the See also:composition of his Contemplations on the See also:Psalms, and of his moral essays . Removed effectually from the public See also:scene, and from all See also:share in present politics, he turned his See also:attention once more to the past and finished his History and his Autobiography . Soon after reaching Calais he had written, on the 17th of December 1667, to the university of Oxford, desiring as his last See also:request that the university should believe in his innocence and remember him, though there could be no further mention of him in their public devotions, in their private prayers.2 In 1668 he wrote to the duke and duchess of York to remonstrate on the See also:report that they had turned Roman Catholic, to the former urging " You cannot be without zeal for the Church to which your blessed father made himself a sacrifice," adding that such a change would bring a great See also:storm against the Romanists . He entertained to the last hopes of obtaining leave to return to England . He asked for permission in June 1671 and in August 1674 . In the See also:dedication of his Brief View of Mr Hobbes's Book See also:Leviathan he repeats " the hope which sustains my weak, decayed See also:spirits that your See also:Majesty will at some time See also:call to your remembrance my long and incorrupted fidelity to your See also:person and your service "; but his petitions were not even answered or noticed . He died at Rouen on the 9th of December 1674 . He was buried in Westminster Abbey at the See also:foot of the steps at the entrance to Henry VII.'s chapel . He left two sons, Henry, 2nd earl of Clarendon, and Lawrence, earl of See also:Rochester, his daughter Anne, duchess of York, and a third son, See also:Edward, having predeceased him . His male descend-ants became See also:extinct on the death of the 4th earl of Clarendon and 2nd earl of Rochester in 1753, the title of Clarendon being ' Continuation, 1137 . 2 Clarendon St . Pap. iii . Suppl. See also:xxxvii.revived in 1776 in the person of Thomas See also:Villiers, who had married the granddaughter and heir of the last earl . As a statesman Clarendon had obvious limitations and failings . He brought to the See also:consideration of political questions an essentially legal but also a narrow mind, conceiving the law, " that great and admirable See also:mystery," and the constitution as fixed, unchangeable and sufficient for all time, in contrast to See also:Pym, who regarded them as living organisms capable of continual development and See also:evolution; and he was incapable of comprehending and governing the new conditions and forces created by the civil See also:wars . His character, however, and therefore to some extent his career, bear the indelible marks of greatness . He left the popular cause at the moment of its triumph and showed in so doing a strict consistency . In a court degraded by licence and self-indulgence, he maintained his self-respect and personal dignity regardless of consequences, and in an age of almost universal corruption and self-seeking he preserved a See also:noble integrity and patriotism . At the Restoration he showed great moderation in accepting rewards . He refused a grant of ro,000 acres in the See also:Fens from the king on the ground that it would create an evil precedent, and amused Charles and James by his indignation at the offer of a present of £ro,000 from the French minister See also:Fouquet, the only present he accepted from Louis XIV. being a set of books printed at the Louvre . His' income, however, as lord chancellor was very large, and Clarendon maintained considerable state, considering it due to the dignity of the monarchy that the high officers should carry the See also:external marks of greatness . The house built by him in St James's was one of the most magnificent ever seen in England, and was filled with a collection of portraits, chiefly those of contemporary statesmen and men of letters . It cost Clarendon £50,000, involved him deeply ,in See also:debt and was considered one of the chief causes of the " gust of envy " that caused his fall.3 He is described as " a See also:fair, ruddy, See also:fat, middle-statured, handsome See also:man," and his See also:appearance was stately and dignified . He expected deference from his inferiors, and one of the chief charges which he brought against the party of the See also:young politicians was the want of respect with which they treated himself and the lord treasurer . His industry and devotion to public business, of which proofs still remain in the enormous See also:mass of his state papers and correspondence, were exemplary, and were rendered all the more conspicuous by the See also:negligence, inferiority in business, and frivolity of his successors . As lord chancellor Clarendon made no great impression in the court of chancery . His early legal training had long been interrupted, and his political preoccupations probably rendered necessary the delegation of many of his judicial duties to others . According to Speaker See also:Onslow his decrees were always made with the aid of two judges . Burnet praises him, however, as " a very good chancellor, only a little too rough but very impartial in the administration of justice,", and Pepys, who saw him presiding in his court, perceived him to be " a most able and ready man." 4 According to Evelyn, "though no considerable lawyer" he was " one who kept up the fame and substance of things in the nation with . . . solemnity." He made good appointments to the See also:bench and issued some important orders for the reform of abuses in his court.' As chancellor of Oxford University, to which office he was elected on the 27th of October r66o, Clarendon promoted 1 he restoration of order and various educational reforms . In 1753 his See also:manuscripts were left to the university by his great-See also:grandson Lord Cornbury, and in 1868 the money gained by publication was spent in erecting the Clarendon Laboratory, the profits of the History having provided in 1713 a See also:building for the university See also:press adjoining the Sheldonian See also:theatre, known since the removal of the press to its present quarters as the Clarendon Building . Clarendon had risen to high office largely through his literary and oratorical gifts . His eloquence was greatly admired by 3 Evelyn witnessed its demolition in 1683-Diary, May 19th, Sept . 18th; Lives from the Clarendon Gallery, by Lady Th . Lewis, i . 40 . 4 Diary, July 14th, 1664 . 4 Lister, ii . 528 . Evelyn and Pepys, though Burnet criticises it as too copious . He was a great See also:lover of books and collected a large library, was well read in the Roman and in the contemporary histories both foreign and English, and could appreciate See also:Carew, Ben Jonson and See also:Cowley . As a writer and historian Clarendon occupies a high place in English literature . His great See also:work, the History of the Rebellion, is composed in the grand See also:style . A characteristic feature is the wonderful series of well-known portraits, See also:drawn with great skill and liveliness and especially praised by Evelyn and by Macaulay . The long digressions, the lengthy sentences, and the numerous parentheses do not See also:accord with See also:modern See also:taste and usage, but it may be observed that these often follow more closely the natural involutions of the thought, and See also:express the See also:argument more clearly, than the short disconnected sentences, now generally employed, while in See also:rhythm and dignity Clarendon's style is immeasurably See also:superior . The composition, however, of the work as a whole is totally wanting in proportion, and the book is overloaded with state papers, misplaced and tedious in the narrative . In considering the accuracy of the history it is important to remember the See also:dates and circumstances of the composition of its various portions . The published Hisiory is mainly a compilation of two separate See also:original manuscripts, the first being the history proper, written between 1646 and 1648, with the See also:advantage of a fresh memory and the help of various documents and authorities, and ending in March 1644, and the second being the Life, extending from 16o9 to 166o, but composed long afterwards in exile and without the aid of papers between 1668 and 1670 . The value of any statement, therefore, in the published History depends chiefly on whether it is taken from the History proper or the Life . In 1671 these two manuscripts were united by Clarendon with certain alterations and modifications making Books i.-vii. of the published History,while Books viii.-xv. were written subsequently, and, being composed for the most part without materials, are generally inaccurate, with the notable exception of Book ix., made up from two narratives written at Jersey in 1646, and containing very little from the Life . Sincerity and honest conviction are present on every See also:page, and the in-accuracies are due not to wilful misrepresentation, but to failure of memory and to the disadvantages under which the author laboured in exile . But they lessen, considerably the value of his work, and detract from his reputation as chronicler of con-temporary events, for which he was specially fitted by his See also:practical experience in public business, a qualification declared by himself to be the " See also:genius, spirit and soul of an historian." In general, Clarendon, like many of his contemporaries, failed signally to comprehend the real issues and principles at stake in the great struggle, laying far too much stress on personalities and never understanding the real aims and motives of the Presbyterian party .
The work was first published in 1702–1704 from a copy of a transcript made by Clarendon's secretary, with a few unimportant alterations, and was the See also:object of a violent attack by See also: 184: Animadversions on a Book entitled Fanaticism (1673); A Brief View . . . of the dangerous . . . errors in . . . Mr Hobbes's book entitled " Leviathan " (1676); The History of the Rebellion and Civil War in Ireland (1719); A Collection of Several Pieces of Edward, earl of Clarendon, containing reprints of speeches from the See also:journals of the House of . Lords and of the History of the Rebellion in Ireland (1727); A Collection of Several Tracts containing his Vindication in answer to his impeachment, Reflections upon several See also:Christian Duties, Two Dialogues on See also:Education and on the want of Respect due to age, and Contemplations on the Psalms (1727); Religion and Policy (1811); Essays moral and entertaining on the various faculties and passions of the human mind (1815, and in British See also:Prose Writers, 1819, vol. i.); Speeches in See also:Rushworth's Collections (1692), pt. iii. vol. i . 230, 333; Declarations and Manifestos (Clarendon being the author of nearly all on the king's side between March 1642 and March 1645, the first being the answer to the Grand Remonstrance in January 1642, but not of the answer to the XIX . Propositions or the See also:apology for the King's attack upon See also:Brentford) in the published History, Rushworth's Collections, E . See also:Husband's Collections of Ordinances and Declarations (1646), Old Parliamentary History (1751–1762), See also:Somers Tracts, State Tracts, Harleian See also:Miscellany, Thomasson Tracts (Brit . See also:Mus.), E . 157 (14) ; and a large number of See also:anonymous See also:pamphlets aimed against the parliament, including Transcendent and Multiplied Rebellion and Treason (1645), A Letter from a True and Lawful Member of Parliament . . . to one of the Lords of his See also:Highness's Council (1656), and Two Speeches made in the House of Peers on See also:Monday 19th Dec . [1642] . . . (Somers Tracts, See also:Scott, vi . 576); Second Thoughts (n.d., in favour of a limited toleration) is ascribed to him in the See also:Catalogue in the British Museum; A Letter . . . to one of the Chief Ministers of the Nonconforming Party . . . (See also:Saumur, 7th May 1674) has been attributed to him on insufficient See also:evidence . Clarendon's correspondence, amounting to over Too volumes, is in the Bodleian library at Oxford, and other letters are to be found in Additional MSS. in the British Museum . Selections have been published under the title of State Papers Collected by Edward, earl of Clarendon (Clarendon State Papers) between 1767 and 1786, and the collection has been calendared up to 1657 in 1869, 1872, 1876 . Other letters of Clarendon are to be found in Lister's Life of Clarendon, iii.; Nicholas Papers (See also:Camden See also:Soc., 1886); Diary of J . Evelyn, appendix; Sir R . Fanshaw's Original Letters (1724); See also:Warburton's Life of Prince See also:Rupert (1849): Barwick's Life of Barwick (1724); Hist . MSS . Comm. loth Rep pt. vi. pp . 193-216, and in the Harleian Miscellany . B1sL1oGRAaHY.-Clarendon's autobiographical See also:works and Letters enumerated above, and the MS . Collection in the Bodleian library . The Lives of Clarendon by T . H . Lister (1838), and by C . H . See also:Firth in the See also:Diet. of Nat . See also:Biography (with authorities there collected), completely supersede all earlier accounts including that in Lives of All the Lord Chancellors (1708), in Macdiarmid's Lives of British Statesmen (1807), and in the different Lives by See also:Wood in Athenae Oxonienses (See also:Bliss), iii . 1018; while those in J .
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See also: Biog. by C . H . Firth, and especially a series of admirable articles by the same author in the Eng . Hist . See also:Review (1904) . For description of the MS., Macray's edition of the History (1888), Lady Th . Lewis's Lives from the Clarendon Gallery, i. introd. pt. ii.; for See also:list of earlier See also:editions, See also:Ath . Oxon . (Bliss) iii . 1017 . Lord See also:Lansdowne defends Sir R . See also:Granville against Clarendon's strictures in the Vindication (Genuine Works of G . Granville, Lord Lansdowne, i . 503 [1732]), and Lord See also:Ashburnham defends John Ashburnham in A Narrative by John Ashburnham (183o) . See also Notes at Meetings of the Privy Council between Charles II. and the Earl of Clarendon (See also:Roxburghe See also:Club, 1896) ; General Orders of the High Court of Chancery, by J . Beames (1815), 147-221; S . R . Gardiner's Hist. of England, of the Civil War and of the Commonwealth; Lord Clarendon, by A . Chassant (account of the assault at Evreux) (1891) ; See also:Annals of the Bodleian Library, by W . D . Macray (1868); See also:Masson's Life of See also:Milton; Life of Sir G . See also:Savile, by H . C . Foxcroft (1898); Cal. of St . Pap . Dom., esp . 1667-1668, 58, 354, 370; Hist . MSS . Comm . Series, MSS. of J . M . See also:Heathcote and Various Collections, vol . H.; Add . MSS. in the British Museum; Notes and Queries, 6 See also:ser. v . 283, 9 ser. xi . 182, 1 ser. ix . 7; Pepys's Diary; J . Evelyn's Diary and Correspondence; Gen . Catalogue in British Museum; Edward Hyde, earl of Clarendon (1909), a lecture delivered at Oxford during the Clarendon See also:centenary by C . H . Firth . (P . C . |
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