Pedestrianism

APPENDIX, 269 it does not appear that he received any compensation for the injury. His arrest was the more surprising, as he had suffered so much in the royal cause, and his principleswere well known to befavourable to the Restoration, ft is pro­ bable, indeed, that this event arose from the resentment of some personal enemy; for malevolence oftenpursues the best of men, and those eminent for their virtues are by no means exempted from its baneful effects. Colonel Barclay's military and political career had now drawn to a close ; and his future life was devoted to study, religious abstraction, the practice of charity, and all the benevolent and amiable pursuits of the human mind. In the year 1666, he joined the sect called Quakers, and be­ came as eminent for piety and zeal, in private life, as he had before been distinguished for courage and intrepidity in the field. Religious disputes, however, running high in the country, his life was checquered by many indignities and insults. Those who had caressed him, while at the head of an army, by every flattering mark of respect, now forgot their benefactor, andcruelly sought to embitter his days bypersecution. But he steadily adheredto his prin­ ciples ; for it could scarcely be supposed, that a man who had been bred in the camp of the great Adolphus—who had fought for liberty of conscience, and habdraved all the dangers of War—could be either intimidated, ordiverted from his purpose by the assaults of power, or the threat­ ening clamourof a senseless rabble. The colonel nowgenerally resided at Ury, enjoyingthe society