time resentment grew less acrimonious, paying a fine of ten thousand
pounds, he was permitted to "recollect himself in another country."

Of his behaviour in this part of life, it is not necessary to direct
the reader's opinion. "Let us not," says his last ingenious
biographer, "condemn him with untempered severity, because he was
not a prodigy which the world hath seldom seen, because his
character included not the poet, the orator, and the hero."

For the place of his exile he chose France, and stayed some time at
Roan, where his daughter Margaret was born, who was afterwards his
favourite, and his amanuensis. He then removed to Paris, where he
lived with great splendour and hospitality; and from time to time
amused himself with poetry, in which he sometimes speaks of the
rebels, and their usurpation, in the natural language of an honest
man.

At last it became necessary, for his support, to sell his wife's
jewels; and being reduced, as he said, at last "to the rump-jewel,"
he solicited from Cromwell permission to return, and obtained it by
the interest of Colonel Scroop, to whom his sister was married.
Upon the remains of a fortune, which the danger of his life had very
much diminished, he lived at Hallbarn, a house built by himself very
near to Beaconsfield, where his mother resided. His mother, though
related to Cromwell and Hampden, was zealous for the royal cause,
and, when Cromwell visited her, used to reproach him; he, in return,
would throw a napkin at her, and say he would not dispute with his
aunt; but finding in time that she acted for the king, as well as
talked, he made her a prisoner to her own daughter, in her own
house. If he would do anything, he could not do less.