Private Devotions and Miscellanies of James, Seventh Earl of Derby K.G. (Volume 2); With a Prefatory Memoir and an Appendix of Documents (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843. Excerpt: ... nity, and he was not comprised within the terms of Charles lord Derby's local Act of Indemnity.27 The independent jurisdiction of the island in this case was subsequently questioned, and upon an appeal to his majesty in council (the king being present) the sentence of confiscation was reversed, it being ruled that the general act of pardon and amnesty extended to the Isle of Man, and ought to have been noticed by the judges, even had it not been pleaded, as it might have been, by William Christian. This was a case which appeared to trench upon the king's prerogative, and therefore would be liable to a somewhat partial decision by king Charles, his judges and ministry. However that might be, the dowager countess must be exempted from all blame in the unhappy affair. Her son was present at Whitehall on the 15th July 1663, when the king heard the cause, but his mother did not appear before that tribunal. At last, to adopt the expressive words of Seacome, "her great heart burst in pieces," and she died at Knowsley house on the 22nd of March 1663-4,28 at the age 27 See Historical notices of Edward and William Christian, two characters in Peveril of the Peak, small 8vo, pp. 43, no date. This tract has been reprinted in the last edition of Peveril in an Appendix to the Introduction; and also in Forsyth's Antiquary's Portfolio, vol. ii. pp. 118-15 J, 1825. The author is said to have been colonel Mark Wilks, a Manxman, and governor of St. Helena. Sir Walter Scott took all the statements upon trust, and has entirely mistaken some of the principal characters. 2s The entry of her burial in the Ormskirk Eegister Book is aa follows, the scribe who made the entry having ornamented it with a rude representation of a coronet: of 57. having survived her husband more than t...