Notes to Chapter 197 A flood of royalist “Declarations” appeared with this message of moderation in April,
from the “nobility and gentry” of Essex, Oxford, Hertford, Kent, London, and else-
where. See Davies, Restoration of Charles II, and R. S. Bosher, The Making of the Resto-
ration Settlement (New York, 1951), 130–8.
98 Matthew Griffith, The Feare of God and the King. Pressed in a Sermon, Preach’d at Mercers
Chapell, on the 25th of March, 1660 (London, 1660), 1, 53.
99 The sermon was published with another tract reviewing the rebellion from the time of
Shipmoney onward: The Samaritan Revived, And the course he then took to cure the wounded
Traveller. That work has its own title page, and its pagination indicates that it was
published or at least printed first, though in this edition it is appended to the sermon.
Thomason dates the joint publication March 25 in reference to the sermon’s date; it
was registered with the Stationers on March 31 (SR 1640–1706, II, 255).
100 CSPD 1659–60, 572.
101 J. M., Brief Notes upon a Late Sermon, Titl’d The Fear of God and the King; Preachd, and
since Publishd, by Matthew Griffith, D.D. and Chaplain to the late King. Wherin many
Notorious Wrestings of Scripture, and other Falsities are observd (London, 1660).
102 [Roger L’Estrange], No Blinde Guides. In Answer to a seditious pamphlet of J. Milton’s,
intituled, Brief Notes upon a late Sermon... by Matthew Griffith (London, 1660, April
20).
103 At a meeting on March 13, described in several tracts and letters, a group of republi-
cans represented to Monk that the people in rejecting a commonwealth are not good
judges of what is best for themselves, so, “since a Single Person was necessary... there
could not be one fitter than he for that Office.” Monk reportedly declined. See Edward
Phillips’s continuation of Baker’s Chronicle, A Chronicle of the Kings of England... with
a Continuation... to the Coronation of his Sacred Majesty, King Charles the Second (Lon-
don, 1665), 755.
104 No Blinde Guides, 11.
105 Ibid., 1–2.
106 For example, A Remonstrance & Address of the Armies of England, Scotland, and Ireland: To
the Lord General Monck (London, 1660, April 9) promised over the signatures of several
largely Presbyterian regiments that they would not meddle in government, having
“great expectation of the next Parliament” (7).
107 For example, Considerations: Being the Legitimate Issue of a True English Heart: Presented
to the Freeholders, and to the Free Men of Several Corporations in this Nation; to Regulate their
Elections (London, 1660).
108 An Alarum to the Officers and Souldiers of the Armies of England, Scotland, and Ireland
(London, 1660), published before April 5, the date of Roger L’Estrange’s (anony-
mous) answer, Double Your Guards: In Answer to a Seditious Pamphlet, Entituled, An
Alarum to the Armies of England, Scotland, and Ireland (London, 1660).
109 [L’Estrange], Physician Cure Thy Selfe: Or an Answer to a Seditious Pamphlet, entituled
Eye-Salve for the English Army (c. April 23), 2. In Double Your Guards, L’Estrange claims
that this tract and Plaine English are “the issue of the Same Brayne” (3). Later, in L’Estrange
His Apology (London, 1660, c. June 6), he admits his error, having learned that both
tracts were by a “Renegade Parson” (113).
110 An apparently contemporary note on the copy of Nedham’s Newes from Brussels in the
Bodleian Library ascribes the writing and production of that tract and An Alarum to the
Notes to Chapter 11