Now, although your Majesty, nor your Royal Father, neither of you, need vindication (much less that elaborate work of his), nor doth anything he hath written in aspersion of his Sovereign deserve answer (absolutely considered), yet, forasmuch as he hath in both showed dangerous wit and wicked learning, which together with elegance in expression is always (in some measure at least) persuasive with some, and because in these last and worst days those dangerous times are come in which many account Treason to be Saintship, and the madness of the people, like the inundation of waters, hath for many years overflowed all the bounds, &c ...

[The writer, in continuation, refers to the assiduity of the fanatical enemies of Charles, still working, though at the end of their wits, to keep him out.] Among many of whom MR.

MILTON comes on the stage in post haste and in this juncture of time, that he may, if possible, overthrow the hopes of all good men, and endeavours what he can to divert those that at present sit at the helm, and by fair pretences and sophisticate arguments would, &c ...

Which I taking notice of, and meeting with this forementioned pamphlet of MR.
MILTON'S, and upon perusal of it finding it dangerously ensnaring, the fallacy of the arguments being so cunningly hidden as not to be discerned by any nor every eye,--observing also the language to be smooth and tempting, the expressions pathetical and apt to move the affections, ...

I thought it my duty, &c.
Before this salutation of his returning Majesty was visible on the book-stalls the great event which it anticipated was as good as accomplished.
The two Houses of Parliament had met on Wednesday, the 25th of April.
There was not only the "full and free" House of Commons for which writs had been issued, but a House of Lords also, assembled by its own will and motion.