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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 892 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR H . would satisfy the demands of the See also:parliament. Nevertheless, there has appeared no See also:evidence to support the See also:charge that he deliberately compassed his destruction. Suspicions of his fidelity, however, soon increased, and after having accompanied the See also:king to See also:Scotland in See also:August 1641, he was dismissed from all his appointments on the 4th of See also:November on See also:Charles's return. See also:Vane immediately joined the parliament; on See also:Pym's See also:motion, on the 13th of See also:December, he was placed on the See also:committee for Irish affairs, was made See also:lord See also:lieutenant of See also:Durham on the loth of See also:February 1642, became a member of the committee of both kingdoms on the 7th of February 1644, and in this capacity attended the Scots See also:army in 1645, while the parliament in the treaty of See also:Uxbridge demanded for him from Charles a See also:barony and the repayment of his losses. He adhered to the parliament after the king's See also:death, and in the first parliament of the See also:Protectorate he was returned for See also:Kent, but the See also:House had refused to appoint him a member of the See also:council of See also:state in February 165o. He died in 1654. He had married Frances, daughter and co-See also:heir of See also:Thomas See also:Darcy of Tolleshurst Darcy in See also:Essex, by whom he had a large See also:family of See also:children, of whom the eldest son, Sir See also:Henry Vane, the younger, is separately noticed. See also:Clarendon invariably speaks of Vane in terms of contempt and reproach. He describes him as merely See also:fit for See also:court duties, " of very See also:ordinary parts by nature and . . . very illiterate. But being of a stirring and boisterous disposition, very industrious and very bold, he still wrought himself into some employment." He declares that motives of revenge upon See also:Strafford influenced not only his conduct in the See also:impeachment but his unsuccessful management of the king's business in the See also:Short Parliament, when he " acted that See also:part malicis ously and to bring all into confusion." The latter See also:accusation, considering the difficulties of the See also:political situation and Vane's See also:total want of ability in dealing with them, is probably unfounded.

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general charge of betraying the king's cause, Vane's mysterious conduct in the impeachment, his See also:great intimacy with See also:Hamilton, and the favour with which he was immediately received by the Opposition on his dismissal from See also:office, raise suspicions not altogether allayed by the See also:absence of See also:proof to substantiate them, while the alacrity with which he transferred himself to the parliament points to a See also:character, if not of systematic treachery, yet of unprincipled and unscrupulous See also:time-serving. Materials, however, to elucidate the details and motives of his See also:ill-omened career have hitherto been wanting.

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