Memorials of the English Affairs From the Beginning of the Reign of Charles the First to the Happy Restoration of King Charles the Second, Vol. 1 of 4 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Memorials of the English Affairs From the Beginning of the Reign of Charles the First to the Happy Restoration of King Charles the Second, Vol. 1 of 4 (Classic Reprint) written by Bulstrode Whitlocke and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memorials of the English Affairs From the Beginning of the Reign of Charles the First to the Happy Restoration of King Charles the Second, Vol. 1 of 4 It is not every period of time, not every king's or Caesar's reign, that furnishes matter sufficient for an history. Tacitus in one place professes he cannot meet with any thing unless he should stuff out a volume in commending the foundation, or the huge timber that Caesar employed at the building his amphitheatre. Elsewhere he complains of his being straitened and kept down, the times affording nothing notable besides the corruption of judges, the encouragement of informers, subornations and malicious prosecutions, treachery, and trepannings, new sorts of treason devised, and the laws (made for the people's security) turned into snares and gins to catch and destroy the brave and the virtuous and all such as are like to resent or stem the inundation of villainy ready to overflow the land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."