The parliament took some notice of the poor cavaliers.

Sixty thousand pounds were at one time distributed among them; Mrs.Lane also and the Penderells had handsome presents and pensions from the king.

But the greater part of the royalists still remained in poverty and distress, aggravated by the cruel disappointment in their sanguine hopes, and by seeing favor and preferment bestowed upon their most inveterate foes.
With regard to the act of indemnity and oblivion, they universally said, that it was an act of indemnity to the king's enemies and of oblivion to his friends..