guards which your Majesty is raising; those who do not wish well to your affairs do rejoice much at it, concluding it will give great cause of jealousy to your people, and prevent the good effects which your Majesty hopes for, this next session of Parliament; and that upon this occasion may be taken to question some guards now in being. 'Tis commonly said this is but a foundation of a standing army, whilst a body of officers shall be thus kept together to head men which may suddenly be raised; that this is an illusion of the act of disbanding, which intended to separate the officers and soldiers then in pay, when so soon after many of these officers are collected into a body again. There is nothing I do more apprehend than a mistrust men may have, that any design is on foot of
come from his Lord Lieutenancy in Ireland, where he showed his abilities in administration and government, as well as prudence in considerably augmenting his estate without reproach. He had been Ambassador Extraordinary in Denmark, and in a word, is such a person as became the son of that worthy hero his father to be, the late Lord Capel, who lost his life for King Charles."—Evelyn's Mem. i., 518.
In 1683, the Earl of Essex was imprisoned in the Tower on suspicion of being engaged with Lord Russel and Algernon Sidney in the Rye House Plot. Being subject to constitutional melancholy, his fortitude gave way, and he cut his throat; which was the more to be lamented, as there is reason to believe nothing could have been proved against him.
