[The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 by David Masson]@TWC D-Link bookThe Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 CHAPTER I 53/79
Remembering that fact, the House now ejected him altogether, and declared him incapable of ever sitting in a Parliament.
There was, of course, no suspicion of _his_ complicity with the Royalists, nor of the complicity of many that had been fined L5 or L20.
The House, in its hour of triumph, was merely settling all scores together .-- In what high spirits Lambert's victory had put the Rumpers appears from the fact that the House ordered the release of the Quaker James Nayler at last (Sept.
8), and from such half-jocular entries in the Order Books of the Council (Aug.
22 _et seq._) as that Colonel Sydenham, Mr.Neville, or some other member of the Council, or Mr.Brewster, a member of the Parliament, should "have a fat buck of this season" out of the New Forest, Hampton Court Park, or some other deer-preserve of the Commonwealth.
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