Reftoration was confirmed he had made him a promife to do fo. He was of great ufe during the plague in London in 1655, and prevented the spreading of that horrid calamity by the wife measures which he recommended, as well as by, his extreme liberality. Monk is thus defcribed in the Memoirs of that pleasing and inftructive writer Sir Philip Warwick: "He was a perfon of a natural and intrepid "courage, and who had made the fword his pro"feffion as foon as he was able to wield it. He $6 was bred up under great Captains, and very early taken notice of by that great Prince and "foldier Henry Prince of Orange. Monk was a "man of deep thoughts and of few words, and "what he wanted in elocution he had in judgment; "and he had a natural fecrefy in him, prevalent "upon all these qualifications of a foldier, which "made him fo fit an inftrument in the hand of "Divine Providence to work his Majefty's "Restoration. Hence he carried it all fo closely "that I believe no man, to this day, can pofi❝tively say, that he defigned any more than the "general quiet of the land, and fo he framed his "defigns fuitable to the opportunities that were ❝ given Y 3 "given him; but that he wished that quiet might "be procured by the means of his Majesty's "happy return, no one can rationally doubt; " and in this fhewed the folidity of his judgment, " in that when despairing Haflerig and his party ❝ offered him the crown, it was no temptation "to him." ર END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. Cromwell, Oliver, , Richard, Croy, Guillaume de, Seigneur de Chevres, E. Edward the Fourth, King of England, the Sixth, Elizabeth, Queen, Erafmus, F. Fairfax, Lord, Ferdinand the Fifth, of Spain, Finch, Lord Keeper, Francis the First, King of France, G. Gaffendi, Gonfalvo, the Great Captain, 104 Guevara, |