were. "They feem to the world," replied he, "to be fuch fort of perfons as would not "fwear, be guilty of fornication, nor drink; "but that they would cozen and deceive; "that they would frequently hear two fermons

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a day, and repeat the fame again too, and " afterwards pray, and fometimes fast all day long." The Bishop then afked Sir John whether those places where the Puritans were did lend freely their money upon the collection of the loan; and being answered in the affirmative, "No man of difcretion," replied the Bishop, "can fay that is a place of Puri"tans; and for my part I am not satisfied to

"THE King is ftill at Newmarket, very "pleasant and cheerful, and takes his recre"ation daily at tennis. His Majesty seems "much to delight in the company and dif"courfe of Cornet Joyce, who brought him "from Holmby, and fent a meffenger to St. "Alban's on purpose for Cornet Joyce to come to Newmarket." "Collections."

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How little with refpect to liberty* the fituation of the good people of England was bettered by the government of the Parliament, the following extract from the Glamorganfhire petition will evince: "The committees "did exact as a bribe twenty pounds of a "reverend, learned, and painful divine, for

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fparing to make him a delinquent; and the "committees did threaten a lunatic husband's "wife to make her hufband a delinquent un"lefs fhe gave him thirty pounds, which the gentlewoman gave left her husband should "be troubled in that cafe; and another man 66 faying, I pray God mend these times,' was "threatened to be made a delinquent."

On the night before he was hurried away to Hurst Castle in the Isle of Wight, he had fome conversation with the Duke of Rich

*Not long before fentence was paffed on King Charles the First, he said to the Prefident, "I do conjure you, "if you love that you pretend (I hope it is real) the "liberty of the fubject and the peace of the kingdom, that will hear me you before any fentence is paffed. I "only defire this, that you will take it into confiderhave not heard of it beforehand.

"ation; it may be you

"If you will, I will retire and you may think of it; but "if I cannot get this liberty, I do proteft that these fair

"fhews of liberty and peace are pure shers, and that you ❝ will not hear your King."

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mond, the Earl of Lindfey, and Colonel Cook. The peers had recommended the King to endeavour to escape. The King requefting Colonel Cook to give him his advice, he faid to him, "Suppofing, Sir, I should not "only tell your Majefty that the army would

very fuddenly feize you, but by concur"ring circumstances prove it to be fo; and "that I had the parole, horfes ready at hand, a veffel attending me, and hourly expecting me. I am now ready and defirous to attend

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you; and in this dismal dark night (as if "it fuited your purpose) I can foresee no difficulty in the thing. The only question "now is, What will your Majefty do?" The King, after a small paufe, pronounced this pofitive answer, "They have promised me, "and I have promifed them; I will not "break firft."

The Duke of Richmond urging Colonel Cook to proceed, and to detail his reafons to the King, he with his leave went on : "Your

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Majefty, I prefume then, intends by these "words they and them the Parliament. If so, "the fcene is now changed, your prefent "apprehenfion arifing from the army, who

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have already fo violated the votes of Par"liament as to invade your Majesty's free"dom,

"dom, and testify their intentions by changing "the fingle sentinel of ftate at your outward "door into ftrong guards in your bed-chamber, " which is in itself a confinement, and the pro"bable forerunner of a speedy abfolute impri"fonment." The King replied, he would not break his word, and bade him and Lord Lindsey good night, and that he would go and take his reft as long as he could. "Which, "Sir," replied Colonel Cook, "I fear will "not be long." The King anfwered, "That "will be as it pleafes God." The next morning the officers rufhed abruptly into the king's room, and conveyed him to Hurst Caftle,

Charles wrote the following lines on the blank leaf of a book in the Treaty House at Newport, in the Ifle of Wight, 21st October 1648:

A coward's still unfafe; but courage knows
No other foe but him who doth oppose.

When Prince of Wales Charles was matriculated of the University of Oxford. Under the notice of his matriculation in the University book he wrote with his own hand:

Si vis omnia fubjicere, fubjice te ratione.

He

He was fo fcrupulous of obferving the rules. of the University, that when he was at Oxford with his army he was defirous to have a book from the Bodleian Library to read at his lodgings. The ftatutes of the library were brought to him, and the keeper pointed out to him the prohibition of lending out any books from the library. The King was fatisfied, and went in perfon to the library to read his book *.

When the vault, in which the body of King Charles was depofited in the collegiate chapel of Windfor, was opened to lay in a still-born child of Ann, Princess of Denmark, the coffin was found covered with a velvet pall, ftrong, and found. A leaden band furrounded it, on which was inferibed

King Charles, 1648.

PRINCESS ELIZABETH.

"SEPTEMBER 8, 1650, died Lady Eliza"beth, daughter to the late King, at Carif

The Bodleian Library was faved from being plundered by Lord Fairfax.

broke