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The years 1649–1651 witnessed complete collapse of the royalist cause. Cavaliers who had awaited a Stuart revival were now, through various means, brought to submission. The king’s execution was followed by a rush of applications to compound under revised regulations. These gave the delinquents up to six weeks to render their accounts, and composition cases initiated in 1649 and 1650 exceeded those in any other year with the exception of 1646. The warning that delinquents who failed to compound would forfeit their entire estates persuaded many, including a number who had previously gone abroad. 1 The surrender of prominent royalists undoubtedly induced others of lesser rank to follow suit. Some, like the earl of Peterborough, applied to the new king before coming to terms with parliament. Charles II did not hinder them. His permission to Peterborough was conveyed in an interesting letter by Hyde, in which the writer included some of his own advice. The king, he said, readily consented to anything Peterborough might find necessary for his personal affairs and was confident of the earl’s loyalty.
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Hardacre, P.H. (1956). The Royalists under the Commonwealth 1649–1653. In: The Royalists during the Puritan Revolution. International Scholars Forum, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-4726-4_4
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