It was enough that in his life he was tried for an alleged breach of laws which none ever heard named till they were discovered for his destruction.

Let not his fame be treated as was his sacred and anointed body.

Let not his memory be tried by principles found out ex post facto.

Let us not judge by the spirit of one generation a man whose disposition had been formed by the temper and fashion of another." "Nay, but conceive me, Mr Cowley," said Mr Milton; "inasmuch as, at the beginning of his reign, he imitated those who had governed before him, I blame him not.

To expect that kings will, of their own free choice, abridge their prerogative, were argument of but slender wisdom.
Whatever, therefore, lawless, unjust, or cruel, he either did or permitted during the first years of his reign, I pass by.