But in the new Parliament he was certain of a majority.
The minority gave no trouble.

The stubborn spirit which had, during two sessions, obstructed the progress of the Bill of Indemnity had been at length broken by defeats and humiliations.

Both Houses stood up uncovered while the Act of Grace was read, and gave their sanction to it without one dissentient voice.
There would not have been this unanimity had not a few great criminals been excluded from the benefits of the amnesty.

Foremost among them stood the surviving members of the High Court of Justice which had sate on Charles the First.

With these ancient men were joined the two nameless executioners who had done their office, with masked faces, on the scaffold before the Banqueting House.