" And it must be always acknowledged,
that though great importunity was used to his ma-
jesty, to discharge his two sons from his service, as
a thing necessary by all the rules of policy, not to
suffer the sons to remain so near his person, when
their father lay under so a brand of his
displeasure, (in which they believed they had so far
prevailed, that they took upon them to promise
their places to other men :) yet z the king positively
refused to yield to them, and continued his favour
still to them both in the same manner he had done.
that though great importunity was used to his ma-
jesty, to discharge his two sons from his service, as
a thing necessary by all the rules of policy, not to
suffer the sons to remain so near his person, when
their father lay under so a brand of his
displeasure, (in which they believed they had so far
prevailed, that they took upon them to promise
their places to other men :) yet z the king positively
refused to yield to them, and continued his favour
still to them both in the same manner he had done.
Edward Hyde - Earl of Clarendon
