THE HISTORY O F ENGLAND, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THЕ DEATH OF GEORGE II. BY DR. GOLDSMITH. THE SEVENTH EDITION, CORRECTED. VOL. III. LONDON: Printed for B. LAW, G. G. and J. ROBINSON, W. RICHARDSON, THE COMMONWEALTH. CROMWELL, who had fecretly folicit- A. D. 16494 ed and contrived the king's death, now began to feel wishes to which he had been hitherto a ftranger. His profpects widening as he rofe, his first principles of liberty were all loft in the unbounded stretch of power that lay before him. When the peers met on the day appointed in their adjournment, they entered upon bufinefs, and fent down fome votes to the commons, of which the latter deigned not to take the leaft notice. In a few days after, the comVOL. III. B mons |