days before the trial, when he was pressed to vote for the King, told him, "That she would be contented to suffer with him the extremest want and misery, sooner than he should vote unjustly." He took her advice, and voted against the question. 83 Paget's Heresiography Description of the Hereticks and Sectaries of these latter times, 4to. sewed, 10s. 6d. 1648 A book very interesting to the right understanding of the Civil War, &c. 84 Birch's Inquiry into the Transactions of Charles I. with the Earl of Glamorgan, 4s.... ...1747 85 England's selected Characters, describing the good and bad Worthies of this Age, 4to. 17. 11s. 6d. ......1643 An extremely rare tract, sold for £3. 15s. at Reed's Sale. 86 Intercepted Letters of Sir John Hotham and his Son, 4to. 3s. 6d. ..Oxford, 1643 87 Husband's Collections of Votes and State Papers, front. 10s. 6d. 4to.... ..1643 A curious and valuable work. It contains that untimely declaration of Charles I. of his being one of the three estates. Lord Molesworth, who wrote much later, was of the same opinion, and it certainly was the ancient political division of our government. One knows that some moderns call the clergy one of the estates, though I never could learn why, or what they can properly have to do with civil affairs. 88 Remonstrance of His Excellency Thomas Lord Fairfax, &c. 3s.... ......1648 This was the first cut at the King's life. Charles felt the movement, and from that moment prepared himself for death. 89 The Royal Project; or a clear Discovery of his Majestie's Design in the present Treaty, 4to. sewed, a very able C 90 Calamy's Letter to Echard on his History of England, 2s. 6d. giving Echard a famous Dressing.......1718 91 Ludlow's Memoirs, best edition, 4to. portrait, neat 1771 92 Memorials of Lord Fairfax, by himself, portrait,7s.6d. 1699 93 Vines Hearse of the renowned Earl of Essex, 4s. portrait, (copy) 5s....... ..1646 94 Prynne's Speech on the King's Answer to the Propositions of both Houses, 4to. 6s.... ....1649 A most masterly piece of reasoning, which persuaded the house, 140 to 104, to agree to the King's concessions; but being unconscionably liberal, it is no wonder the army would not listen to them. The King allows the Parliament's War to have been just and lawful. The militia by sea and land to be placed in the hands of Parliament, who shall also have the nomination and appointment of all offices, civil and military, Judges, &c. confirms the new great seal and all its grants, and nullifies those of the old one. All future Peers to have a vote only by permission of Parliament. All supplies granted to be valid without the royal consent, all delinquents (royalists) given to banishment, or legal trial, &c. &c. In short he gives up every atom of Royal Power and Prerogative, and only quibbles and boggles a little about some small Church Acres, after having abandoned Episcopacy-pretty advisers he must have had-but the Queen governed, and ruined every thing, except some small matters of this kind, which he did by stealth. 95 Prynne's Memento to the present unparliamentary Junto touching their present Intentions to depose and execute their lawful King, 3s. 6d... ... .1648 ́96 Prynne's Breviate of the Life of Laud, folio, 14s..1644 This wretched prelate, without being viciously inclined, by his intemperate Tory principles has incurred the curses of succeeding generations. He was the real founder of the Test Act, and was strongly suspected of being a Papist. A lady whom he questioned for turning Catholic, replied "that hating to travel in a croud, and knowing that his Grace and the Court were about to go to Rome, she had taken the opportunity of going before." 9 Satisfaction to some Scruples about putting the late King to Death, 4to. 2s. 6d.. .1649 A justification of that act from scripture, which has nothing to do with the affair. The Presbyterian Ministers presented an address to him, well declaring their abhorrence of all personal violence to the King, signed by 60 of them. 98 An Appeal to all rational Men on King Charles's Case, with the matter which would have been offered at the Bar, if the King had pleaded, by John Cook, Barrister, 4to. 7s. 6d. 1649 The execution of Charles I. like that of his grandmother, still provokes discussion. Mr. Walter Scott, the justly celebrated Poet, has ventured to nibble at the observations of Mr. Fox on the subject. Thistles must have been devilish scarce when his prose Pegasus could venture to forage so high. "But," says Mr. Scott, "the open and daring manner in which the trial (of Charles) was conducted, had something in it so dazzling and imposing, as has "served," says Mr. Fox, "to raise the character of the English people in the opinion of Europe in general." Such, however, as examine this shining piece of history, with reference to its immediate effect and future consequences upon the British nation, will hardly be dazzled by the reputation which it is said to have gained them." The immediate consequences were a government by the sword; and the more remote effects-the restoration of Charles II. and he proceeds, in substance, that the home-spun reflections of R. Coke breath much more the spirit of real justice and constitutional freedom, than the ill-suppressed exultation of Mr. Fox." The justice and liberality of these remarks will be seen by citing Mr. Fox's own opinion, why it seemed to raise the character of the English. "The guilt of the action, that is to say, the taking away the life of the King, is what most men in the place of Cromwell and his associates would have incurred: what there is of splendour and of magnanimity in it, I mean THE PUBLICITY AND SOLEMNITY OF THE ACT, is what few would be capable of displaying." It seems impossible by words to distinguish more clearly between the guilt of a deed and its manner; to which latter Mr. Fox confines the epithets of admiration and respect, (not dazzling and shining) bestowed by foreigners, and not by himself. Yet Mr. Scott jogs on, ingenuously confounding the manner with the crime, and mis-interpreting his author, who neither does, nor could say, that the immediate effect of the manner of condemning and putting the King to death was a government by the sword. The observation that its remoter consequence produced the restoration seems entirely the result of the editor's own specula 66 tions, and can only furnish one with an idea that a small part of his very profitable time might not be mis-employed in returning to school, where some of the elder children would inform him that the restoration was solely the work of Monk; and, that if the rhetoric of Lord Boghill, in the cause of Richard Cromwell, had not previously prevented Fleetwood and Desborough from carrying, in the House of Commons, a Purging Test, the restoration most probably had been prorogued sine die. What is meant to be insinuated by ill-suppressed exultation," ascribed to Mr. Fox, seems not very clear, unless to fix on him an approbation of the deed; but Mr. Fox distinctly states that he considered it as an act neither just, necessay, nor politic. Although unable to compliment Mr. Scott's historic labours, I aim not to impeach his judgment generally, nor suppose that he expects a considerable accession of reputation from the above species of note-making; no! I dare say he would be the first candidly to allow that poetry is his FIRST very best manner, and if estimated at 2xy per sheet, then, his SECOND very best manner, which we'll say, is original criticisin in the Temple-bar Treasury of Tory Tactics, on Poetical subjects, might be valued at one XY per sheet. Ignorance of the endless variety of Mr. Scott's excellent talents must serve as an apology, if any error arise in considering his THIRD very best manner to be note-making, which may be appraised by dividing XY by some lofty number. If it were possible by any chemical process to separate the genius from the labour of our editor's valuable performances, the latter might be most accurately determined by the estab lishment of a standing log, regulated by an inch of candle. 99 Annals of King James and Charles I. from 1612 to 1642, folio, ll. ls..... .1681 Clarendon Frankland (the author of this work) and Nalson, says Rapin, were the principal Tory writers for Charles I. They filched plentifully from Rushworth, but gipseyfied it with their false glosses. 101 Observations on the History of the Reign of King Charles by H. L. Esq. 3s. 6d..... 102 Eikon Basilike, portraits, 2s. 6d.............1749 ..1656 Toland, I think, mentions having seen a MS. Life of Bishop Patrick, written by himself, in which it is asserted that the Eikon was not the composition of Charles I. It however contains much historical matter which it does not seem possible for any one else to have communicated. 103 Perinchief's Life of Charles I. and Vindication of Eikon Basilike, 2s. 6d. .... ......1693 104 Defence of Eikon Basilike, in reply to Milton, 4s. 6d. 1692 105 Cabala, or Mysteries of State in the Reigns of Henry VIII. Elizabeth, James I. and Charles I. folio, 12s. 1663 107 The None-such Charles his Character, portrait, 9s. 1651 108 The Works of Charles I. both Civil and Sacred, the Royal Library containing such Papers of Charles I. as are not in the former Work, or in Husband's exact Collections, 2 v. rare, ll. ls. The latter work was compiled by Heylin. 1659 109 Regii Sanguinis Clamor ad Coelum, 2s.....Hag. 1652 Milton ascribed this book to Morus, and severely lashed it; but it was written, says Bayle, by P. du Moulin. 110 Barnard's Life of Dr. Heylin, 6s..... ..1683 111 Bates Elenchus Motuum nuperorum in Anglia, por traits, 7s. 6d. 112 Killing no Murder, 4to. 2s. 6d. no title ..1676 113 Killing is Murder and no Murder, wherein his Highness honor is vindicated, and Allen's Impostures discovered, by Michael Hawke, 4to. 7s. 6d.. 1657 A very curious and able defence of Cromwell, who however had no hand in the execution of Charles I. Cromwell was not a man of blood. 114 Proceedings of the Commissioners of the Church and Kingdom of Scotland with his Majestie at the Hague, 4s. 4to.... Edinb. 1649 When the Commissioners waited on Charles II. at the Hague, they were placed in the next room to him, where |