PRINCE RUPERT,

Son of the Elector Frederick V., Count Palatine of the Rhine, and of Elizabeth, daughter of James I. From the Painting by Vandyke, in the collection of the Earl of Sandwich, at Hinchingbrooke.

wrecked at Philiphaugh, and Glamorgan's concessions to the Irish Catholics were divulged and had to be disavowed. On March 31, 1646, Sir Jacob Astley bringing 3,000 men, the last Royalist force in existence, to the relief of Charles at Oxford, was forced to surrender at Stow-on-the-Wold. "You have done your work," said the veteran to his captors, and may go play, unless you will fall out among yourselves." Though Oxford and Newark were still untaken, the end of the war was now a mere question of days.

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"Honest men," wrote Cromwell to Speaker Lenthall soon after the victory of Naseby, "served you faithfully in this action. Sir, they are trusty-I beseech you in the name of God, not to discourage them-I wish this action may beget thankfulness and humility in all that are concerned in it. He that ventures his life for the liberty of his country, I wish he trust God for the liberty of his conscience, and you for the liberty he fights for." All this," he continued three months later, in the same strain, after the storm of Bristol, "is none other than the work of God; he must be a very atheist that doth not acknowledge it. It may be thought that some praises are due to those gallant men of whose valour so much mention is made :-Their humble suit to you and all that have an interest in this blessing is that, in the remembrance of God's praises, they may be forgotten. It's their joy that they are instruments of God's glory and their country's good. It's their honour that God vouchsafes to use them. they that have been employed in this prayer obtained this city for you: I do people of God with you and all England God for a blessing in this very thing. Our desires are that God may be glorified by the same spirit of faith by which we ask all our sufficiency and have received it. It is meet that He have all the praise. Presbyterians, Independents, all had here the same spirit of faith and prayer, the same presence and answer; they agree here, know no names of differpity it is it should be otherwise anywhere! All that believe have the real unity which is most glorious because inward and spiritual in the Body

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service know that faith and not say ours only, but of the over, who have wrestled with