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HEYLYN-LAUD — GIFFORD — CLARENDON.

published, and himself be excommunicated.

360. The elders shall not make report unto the consistory of any secret faults, but shall observe the order commanded by our Saviour, reproving in secret such faults as

are secret.

363. Those articles which concern the discipline, are so established, that forasmuch as they are founded upon the word of God, they are adjudged immutable.

366. Parity in the church, "that which all their projects did so mainly drive at, and by those of this party so earnestly affected in the church, the better to introduce it also into the state."

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369. "Dangerous and saucy' diligence of the elders, inquiry into private affairs, not only by the voice of fame, but by tampering with their neighbours, and examining their servants.

371. A Puritan refused to baptize a child "Richard."

Walking recipients of the Sacrament in the Netherlands.

374. Under "the head of scandal, all offences were brought under cognizance of the consistory.

376. Lecturers preparing the way for the platform.

379. James's hope of uniting the Protestant churches, for which cause he had the Liturgy translated into Latin and most adjacent languages.

His appeal to the council for his constant respect and reference to the law. - Calv. & Arm. p. 651.

His views, as stated to Gauden. — Ibid. 658.

Hatred of the Dutch Calvinists to him, long before the rebellion.-Ibid. 664.

Letter to Vossius, 1629, upon the evils which he foresaw.-Ibid. 659-75.

LORD BROOKE seems to agree with him in thinking celibacy desirable to the higher clergy.—Remains, p. 61.

GIFFORD, B. J., vol. 7, p. 19, censures him too hastily concerning Mountjoy's marriage with lady Rich.

"LUDLOW is of opinion that Laud's sentence was passed to encourage and please the Scots, who were then beginning to be very troublesome to the party who had called in their assistance." - Monthly Review, No. 358.

Clarendon.

"THE place from whence he took his title, derives its name from Constantius Chlorus, thus: when he came to Britain, he built a fortification, near New Sarum, upon the side of the Downs, the ramparts whereof still appear very apparently, and the place is called

414. Insolence shewn in Guernsey to the Chloren, after the name that the Britons soldiers and the chaplain.

Christmas uncelebrated there.

415. Charles, in pursuance of his father's plan, must begin with uniformity at home. 419. The inquisitorial discipline unpopular.

Snape and Cartwright were the means of obtruding the discipline on these islands.

Laud.

gave him by reason of his long train carried up after him. It standeth in Wiltshire, upon the north corner of Chlorendon Park, now called Clarindon, which taketh his name thereof,-a park of that largeness and bigness that it exceedeth any park in the kingdom. If we give credit to a late poet, the park had twenty groves in it, each of them of a mile compass. It had a house of the king's within, but long since dilapidated. It doth now belong to the right hon. William Earl of Pembroke, lord chamberlain to his

JUXON and Laud are buried in the same majesty, whose heart is as large and liberal grave, at St. John's.

as the park is wide."-Hist. of Allchester.

CLARENDON-HALLAM.

HYDE tells the king, 1642, "Your greatest strength is in the hearts and affections of those persons who have been the severest assertors of the public liberties, and so besides their duty and loyalty to your person, are in love with your inclinations to peace and justice, and value their own interests upon the preservation of your rights."CLARENDON Papers, vol. 2, p. 139.

"JUNE, 1646. To Nicholas.

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I would not yet buy a peace at a dearer price than was offered at Uxbridge, and I am persuaded in my soul, if ever it shall be purchased at a more dishonourable or impious price, it will be more unpleasant and fatal to those who shall have their hands in making the bargain, than the war hath been. It is ill logic to infer that because you cannot have it cheaper, therefore you must give whatsoever is asked. It may be, God hath resolved we shall perish; and then it becomes us all to perish with those decent and honest circumstances, that our good fame may procure a better peace to those who succeed us than we were able to procure for them, and ourselves shall be happier than any other condition could render us. God preserve England from being invaded by the Turk! for in my conscience, in this conjuncture it is prepared for quietness' sake to take any religion."— Ibid, vol. 2, p. 237.

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Ibid, vol. 2, p. 241. His feelings in retirement at Jersey. July 1646.

Ibid, vol. 2, p. 284. Ox the compositions which were then frequent.

286. His view of parties, and the little sincerity among them, except in the antimonarchical leaders. 291.

291. Dislike of French assistance. 307. 306. His refusal to act upon secret instructions, in opposition to formal ones.

307. His hopes. Opinion of the Independents.

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340. His English feeling respecting the sufferings of England, and the danger of a restoration by means of foreign aid.

349. An admirable picture of what England under the rebels would be to a loyal and religious family.

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350. He asks Dr. Earles for a discourse in the end of his contemplations upon the Proverbs, in memory of Lord Falkland, "of whom in its place I intend to speak largely, conceiving it to be so far from an indecorum, that the preservation of the fame and merit of persons, and deriving the same to posterity is no less the business of history, than the truth of things."

356. Letter to his wife, expecting it would not be delivered till after his death.

358. His will, written at that time 1647. 359. Wise views concerning Church Go

vernment.

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360. Advice to his children. 361. Desire that they may be bred up in friendship with Lord Falkland's.

Solemn protestation concerning the integrity of his own conduct, and 363, of the king's intentions.

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364. "I am not of the Dean's mind: if I could not get enough to keep me out of England, I would rather take a gaol, than skulk up and down with the perpetual agony and apprehension of being taken. A gaol is a quiet place, besides the benefit of having a man's friends know where to find him; which as the world goes, is no small conveniency. I wonder that our friends who are so intoxicated with the love of the English air do not get them lodgings there; it is worth an hundred of compounding."

365. 1647.—“I am very glad the Clergy in Scotland carry themselves so impetuously. It is a spirit impossible to be severed from the Presbytery, and will sooner convert the nobility and gentry of Scotland, than all the reason that can be spoken to them; and they will find all the power they have wrested from the king will do them no good, if the jus divinum of that tribe be suffered to conclude that Jesus Christ hath trusted them only with the advancement of his kingdom. There is no question the clergy will always have an extraordinary influence upon the people; and therefore (except there be an army kept on foot to govern both, as you will find there is in all places where the clergy have no power) there must be a way to govern the clergy absolutely, and keep it subject to the rules and orders of state; which never was, nor never can be, without bishops: so that in truth civil prudence would make unanswerable arguments for that order, if piety did not."

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this is very true and very characteristic of Hyde-"In a word, dear Jack, we are not sure God Almighty hath not determined the ruin of king and kingdom; but we are sure he hath determined neither of them shall be preserved by impious or dishonest means."

386. Concerning his account of Falkland, -to Dr. Earles.

402. Want of Bishops a matter of necessity at first in the foreign Protestant churches.

411. His counsel to yield nothing unreasonable, but to stand fast upon the old rock of established law. 1648.

417. A declaration of his principles to the Queen.

459. To Digby.

478. His feeling toward the Queen after Charles' murder.

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520. Writing from Spain he says people are generally more incurious than is easy to be believed, and much less respective of learning, and consequently less supplied with learned men than I imagined. Yet they are careful in writing their own histories, which I am studying diligently, and out of them inform myself more of the state of England than I could do by my own chronicles; and if I had money, I could supply myself with more materials concerning our own country, than out of our own records: I mean of the ancientest times."

522. On the failure of the Scotch attempt to Sir J. Berkeley, "I know I shall be thought too scrupulous, if not superstitious but I cannot forbear to desire you, who are an honest man, to remember that though God hath suffered us to be undone by the perjury and dissimulation of ill men, he will never suffer us to reverse those his judgements by our perjury and following the same courses."

525. Prejudices against him.
529. Instability of the loyalists.

"I have long thought our nation will be either utterly extinguished under this great judgement, or be restored and preserved in

WHITAKER - DODD - BAXTER

such an extraordinary way as we shall not be able to assume any part of it to our own wits and dexterity; for methinks God Almighty exceedingly discountenances all the designs which our natural reason is apt to flatter us with."

Dmens.

"I was told at Dumfermline," says DR. WHITAKER (Craven, 163,) "that when Charles I. was in his cradle there, an Image (by which was meant an Angel) descended from Heaven, and covered him with a bloody

mantle."

THE Church of England dated its misfortunes from the Long Parliament, Nov. 3rd, 1640. "The very day was thought ominous; so that before the appointed time some persuaded the Archbishop (Laud) to move the king to have the sitting respited for a day or two longer; because the Parliament in Henry VIII.'s reign, which ended with the diminution of the clergy's power, and the dissolution of religious houses, began the same day. But the Archbishop took little notice of the advertisement."DODD, vol. 1, p. 117, quoting Collier, vol. 2, p. 161.

DODD says, "Providence seems to have had a design to retaliate upon the Church of England, that it should fall by the same weapons which it had made use of against others." Several circumstances occurred to occasion such reflections.

“On April 23, was his Majesty's (Charles II.) coronation day; the day being very serene and fair, till suddenly in the afternoon, as they were returning from Westminster Hall, there was very terrible thunders, when none expected it. Which made me remember his father's coronation, on which, being a boy at school, and having leave to play for the solemnity, an earthquake (about two o'clock in the afternoon)

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did affright the boys and all the neighbourhood. I intend no commentary on these, but only to relate the matter of fact.”— BAXTER's Life, p. 303.

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1639. "ONE remarkable accident did not a little awaken those just resentments which his majesty had conceived against the covenanters. For upon the 19th of November being the anniversary of the king's birthday, part of the walls of the castle of Edinburgh fell down, and the king having given orders for the necessary repair, the covenanters would not suffer any materials to be carried in for that purpose."-NALSON, vol. 1, p. 278.

CHARLES's funeral. "It was observed that at such time as the king's body was brought out from St. George's hall, the sky was serene and clear, but presently it began to snow, and the snow fell so fast, that by that time the corpse came to the west end of the royal chapel, the black velvet pall was all white, (the colour of innocency) being thick covered over with snow. Thus went the White King to his grave.” — MR. HERBERT'S Account of the | Funeral, in Wood's Athenæ, vol. 2, p. 703.

"THE lesson for the 30th January was the chapter of the Passion."-SOUTH, vol. 3, p. 434.

Mired Extracts.

CHARLES "had been always averse to had viewed the practice of it in Spain."– Popery, and detested it utterly after he CARTE'S ORMONDE, vol. 1, p. 54.

BOTH Ireland and Scotland were in a state which required the rough remedy of civilization by conquest,a Roman civilization. These kingdoms therefore were in a better state under Cromwell's iron sway, than while they enjoyed their own barbarous

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