CHAPTER LX.
THE COMMONWEALTH.
CONTEMPORARY MONARCHS.
EMP of GERM.

K.OF FRANCE.

K.or SPAIN.
Ferdinand III 1658 Lewis XIII.

Philip IV.
{1649.} The confusions which overspread England after the murder of Charles I., proceeded as well from the spirit of refinement and innovation which agitated the ruling party, as from the dissolution of all that authority, both civil and ecclesiastical, by which the nation had ever been accustomed to be governed.

Every man had framed the model of a republic; and, however new it was, or fantastical, he was eager in recommending it to his fellow-citizens, or even imposing it by force upon them.