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The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E.

CHAPTER LXII
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111.
*** British Empire in America, vol.i.p.

372.
**** Purnet.
Notwithstanding his narrow revenue, and his freedom from all vanity, he lived in such magnificence, that he possessed four and twenty palaces, all of them elegantly and completely furnished; insomuch that, when he removed from one to another, he was not obliged to transport any thing along with him.
Cromwell, though himself a barbarian was not insensible to literary merit.

Usher, notwithstanding his being a bishop, received a pension from him.

Marvel and Milton were in his service.

Waller, who was his relation, was caressed by him.


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