177), from Lord Halifax's collections, to which I refer.

If we peruse their apology, which we find in the subsequent page of the same author, we shall find that they acted with some malignity towards the king.

They would take notice of no services performed before the first of September, 1664.

But all the king's preparations preceded that date, and, as Chancellor Clarendon told the parliament, amounted to eight hundred thousand pounds; and the computation is very probable.
This sum, therefore, must be added.

The committee likewise charged seven hundred thousand pounds to the king, on account of the winter and summer guards, saved during two years and ten months that the war lasted.
But this seems iniquitous.