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HIS ACTIONS In the PROTECTORSHIP.
THE English Nation having by a Civil War banished Monarchy with an Exit Tyrannus, presently institute an Oligarchy, which (to give them their due) acted in their Infancy like Hercules in the Cradle, stifling all those Serpents that offered to hiss against their Authority; and with such vigor prosecu∣ted they their designes, that both Ireland and Scotland were inforc't to yeild obedi∣ence to their commands.
The Authority of this Power being thus miraculously extended, it grew at length