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It must be owned that he did not , like Hume , consider the events of Charles the First's reign with the spirit of a thorough - paced Tory . Had he professed the opinions on that subject which are now in vogue , he could not have been ...
It must be owned that he did not , like Hume , consider the events of Charles the First's reign with the spirit of a thorough - paced Tory . Had he professed the opinions on that subject which are now in vogue , he could not have been ...
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Looking only to this side of this case , it would seem next to impossible but that Gauden , not Charles , was the author of Icon Basilike . ' + Wagstaffe's Vindication of King Charles the Martyr . London , 1711.
Looking only to this side of this case , it would seem next to impossible but that Gauden , not Charles , was the author of Icon Basilike . ' + Wagstaffe's Vindication of King Charles the Martyr . London , 1711.
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At the moment of the Restoration of Charles II . , he appears therefore to have had as little public claim on the favour of that prince as any clergyman who had conformed to the ecclesiasti- cal principles of the Parliament and the ...
At the moment of the Restoration of Charles II . , he appears therefore to have had as little public claim on the favour of that prince as any clergyman who had conformed to the ecclesiasti- cal principles of the Parliament and the ...
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He adds , that he had ac- quainted Charles II . with the secret through the Duke of York , that Morley , then Bishop of Worcester , had informed Clarendon of it , and that Morley himself had declared the value of the service to be such ...
He adds , that he had ac- quainted Charles II . with the secret through the Duke of York , that Morley , then Bishop of Worcester , had informed Clarendon of it , and that Morley himself had declared the value of the service to be such ...
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How could Gauden know that the King did not possess his fathers MS . , and that Royston the printer was not ready to prove that he had received it from Charles I. , through hands totally uncon- nected with Gauden ?
How could Gauden know that the King did not possess his fathers MS . , and that Royston the printer was not ready to prove that he had received it from Charles I. , through hands totally uncon- nected with Gauden ?
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