A Catalogue of the Collection of Tracts for and Against Popery (Published in or about the Reign of James II.) in the Manchester Library Founded by Humphrey Chetham, in Which Is Incorporated, with Large Additions and Bibliographical Notes, the Whole of (Vo (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Mr. Huddleston's Sincerity and fair dealing in that relation. For I have been told by a person of no mean Quality and Known Integrity, who attended his Majesty from the time presently after his fall in that fatal Distemper to the last minute of his Life, excepting the space of about one half hour, when he and others were desired to withdraw, to make room for some other company, whereof Mr. Huddleston was one, that the King at that time was not able to speak three words together without great difficulty, and those so brokenly and unintelligibly that they were forced to guess at his meaning. Now let any man well consider all the Formalities and parts which Mr. Huddleston tells us he then acted, and you will scarce allow it to be done with any decency in less than an hour and a half (although nothing should have passed at that time between the King and Queen to hinder or interrupt his proceedings) and that is three times as long as he was there. But the strangest thing of all is that he puts long speeches in the King's Mouth, and makes him speak them Readily and Chear- fully; whereas that Honourable Person tells me, that when he and the others went in again to the King, they observed his speech to fail more, and so it continued to his death. Now how came he to speak so well and readily then, who could do it neither before nor after ?" A Letter to the King, when Duke of York, persuading him to return to the protestant Religion, wherein the chief errors of the Papists are exposed. By an old Cavalier and faithful son of the church of England as established by law. A single sheet. 4to 1688 Probably the same as the Letter addressed by Sir Leoline Jenkins to the Duke of York in Scotland in 1680 above referred to. CHAP. III. Of the discourses written upon the design of abr...