[211] ‘All men who knew him either loved or hated him in extremity.’
[212] ‘Their designs walk on four feet.’ He added a fifth foot, like the Assyrian monsters. The outline of his speech was known already from Nalson i. 495. There is now also the information from D’Ewes’ Journal, in Sanford’s Illustrations.
[213] Narrative in Sanford, 307. There is a notice in May to the same effect.
[214] Montereuil speaks of him as ‘fort éloquent et de grand credit parmi le peuple, un de ceux qui parlèrent avec plus de hardiesse dans de dernier parlement.’
[215] The information comes from Whitelocke’s Memorials, not a really independent authority for these years. It is chiefly compiled from Sanderson, from which Whitelocke has extracted at this place the notice of the evil omen derived from the choice of the day. Sanderson is silent about Strafford’s letter, which Whitelocke quotes. On the contrary, he makes him confer with his friends on the way, and form his determination on the ground that he intended to impeach his opponents. ‘He himself had digested his intelligence into the form of an impeachment.’ Strafford’s frame of mind is shown in a letter of Nov. 5. Fairfax, Correspondence ii. 52.
[216] Contemporary narrative, in Sanford 312.
[217] State Trials iv. 44. Montereuil: ‘Deux raisons l’ont obligé à sortir d’Angleterre, l’une pour se sauver du danger qui le menaçoit, l’autre pour ne point contribuer à la perte de ses amis, l’archevesque de Canterbury et le Lieutenant d’Irlande, comme il eut fait asseurement, s’il cust été obligé de déposer contre eux.’
[218] From a narrative proceeding from Clarendon, but afterwords not inserted by him in his historical work, given by Seward and in the State Trials iv. 18.
[219] Parliamentary History ix. 42.
[220] Lord Digby’s Speech for frequent Parliaments. Parl. Hist. ix. 157.