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D uring the Interregnum, L u d lo w never approved the Protec torate and Sidney sulked in the country at his father’s house. Milton, M arvell and probably Nedham, w orked for Crom w ell in T h urloe’s office. M ilton praised Sidney in the Secon d D efen ce, but they pursued different courses. M arvell and N eville were friends o f H arrington throughout this period and the next, w ere members o f the Rota, but w ere associated with opposed connections under the Cromwells. H arrington was at all times an observer, a talker and a writer, but, like the more active Milton, he suffered persecu tion at the Restoration.
The “breach and ruin” of our government was at hand, the end of a process of decay which had gone on for over two hundredyears. He refused to discuss the beginnings of govern ment anywhere, although he declared his love of reading not the historians but the archives of any country. Government must start by necessity. Laws to maintain property must be made. Govern ment for the good of the government could not exist merely for the exaltation of the government. ” The present confusions, Neville said, were caused by the break-up of large estates.
T y ra n n y could and should be resisted. ” 8 II ^ SOME ^ ^ SEVENTEENTH -CENTURY COMMONW EALTHMEN LINKS W ITH THE INTERREGNUM Seven important contributors to the canon o f Real W h ig doc trine — Harrington, Nedham, Milton, Ludlow , Sidney, N eville and Marvell — were linked with the Interregnum. Even among these there were important differences, though all had been stimulated b y the civil commotions and experiments o f their times to think freely and deeply about politics. A ll were critical of defects in the body politic of England and wrote forcibly about remedies for these.