in 1654, Slingsby and Hewit in 1658, are the most flagrant instances of
Cromwell's perversion of justice, and contempt for the old liberties of
England. But they do not stand alone.

_Guile and coarseness_; 'A certain coarse good nature and affability that
covered the want of conscience, honour, and humanity: quick in passion,
but not vindictive, and averse to unnecessary crimes,' is the deliberate
summing-up of Hallam,--in the love of liberty inferior to none of our
historians, and eminent above all for courageous
impartiality,--_iustissimus unus_.

_With glory he gilt_; See _Appendix_ C.

_Success, the vulgar test_; See Matthew Arnold's finely discriminative
_Essay_ on Falkland.



MARSTON MOOR


July 2: 1644

O, summer-high that day the sun
His chariot drove o'er Marston wold:
A rippling sea of amber wheat
That floods the moorland vale with gold.

With harvest light the valley laughs,
The sheaves in mellow sunshine sleep;