Note 486 — Chapter X · (continued 2)
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Clarendon confesses (Life, p. 20) that the cavaliers disliked this whole intrigue with the presbyterians, which was planned by Mordaunt, the most active and intelligent agent that the king possessed in England. The former, doubtless, perceived that by extending the basis of the coalition, they should lose all chance of indemnity for their own sufferings: besides which, their timidity and irresolution are manifest in all the Clarendon correspondence at this period. See particularly 491, 520.