Лекция: Gentlemen-at-arms, and made them a hundred. He liked to hear the bugles

sounding down the long corridors, and the distant voices responding, 'Way

for the King!'

He even learned to enjoy sitting in throned state in council, and seeming to be

something more than the Lord Protector's mouthpiece. He liked to receive

Great ambassadors and their gorgeous trains, and listen to the affectionate

messages they brought from illustrious monarchs who called him 'brother.'

Oh, happy Tom Canty, late of Offal Court!

He enjoyed his splendid clothes, and ordered more; he found his four hundred

Servants too few for his proper grandeur, and trebled them. The adulation of

Salaaming courtiers came to be sweet music to his ears. He remained kind and

Gentle, and a sturdy and determined champion of all that were oppressed, and

He made tireless war upon unjust laws; yet upon occasion, being offended, he

Could turn upon an earl, or even a duke, and give him a look that would make

him tremble. Once, when his royal 'sister,' the grimly holy Lady Mary, set

Herself to reason with him against the wisdom of his course in pardoning so

Many people who would otherwise be jailed, or hanged, or burned, and

reminded him that their august late father's prisons had sometimes contained

As high as sixty thousand convicts at one time, and that during his admirable