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PRINTED FOR T. CADELL JUN. AND W. DAVIES,

IN THE STRAND.

1798.

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CHARLES THE SECOND.
[1649-1685.]

HAD this King but loved bufinefs as well as he understood it," fays Sir Richard Bulftrode, "he would have been the greatest "Prince in Europe." Of his own country he used to say, that it was the most comfortable climate to live under, that he had ever experienced; as there were more days in the year, and more hours in the day, that a man could take exercise out of doors in it, than in any

\country he had ever known. He said one day

VOL. II.

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to Sir Richard Bulftrode, that during his exile he had feen many countries, of which none pleased him so much as that of the Flemings, who were the moft honeft and true-hearted people he had ever met with: and then added, "I am weary of travelling, I am refolved to go "abroad no more; but when I am dead and દર gone, I know not what my brother will do;

I am much afraid that when he comes to the "Throne he will be obliged to travel again."

An Addrefs being once prefented from the City to this Monarch by the Lord Mayor, attended by Sir Robert Clayton, Mr. Bethell, and Mr. Cornif, the King returned an answer by the Lord Chancellor, which concluded thus:

"The King doth not believe this to be fo “unanimous a vote of the City as is pretended; "and he commands me to tell you, that if he did believe it were fo (as he does not), that'

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you have meddled with a thing which is "none of your bufinefs;-" and fo difmiffed them." Memoirs of the Reign of Charles the Second, by Sir Richard Bulftrode, Refident at Bruffels to the Court of Spain from Charles the Second."

Lockhart, the Author of "The Memoirs," wrote with his own hand the following narrative

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