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his Grace) that he would be pleased to make you an Anchor, or Harbour rather, to these tossed and weather-beaten Kingdoms; a Repairer, by your Wisdom, Justice, Piety and Valour, of what the Folly and Wickedness of some men have so far ruined, as to leave nothing intire in Church or State, to the Crown, the Nobility, the Clergie or the Commons, either as to Laws, Liberties, Estates, Order, Honour, Conscience, or Lives.

When they have destroyed Me (for I know not how far God may permit the Malice and Cruelty of my Enemies to proceed, and such apprehensions some mens words and actions have already given Me) as I doubt not but my Bloud will cry aloud for Vengeance to Heaven; so I beseech God not to pour out his Wrath upon the generality of the People, who have either deserted Me, or ingaged against Me, through the artifice and hypocrisie of their Leaders, whose inward Horror will be their first Tormentor, nor will they escape exemplary Judgments.

For those that loved Me, I pray God they may have no miss of Me when I am gone; so much I wish and hope that all good Subjects may be satisfied with the Blessings of your Presence and Vertues.

For those that repent of any defects in their Duty toward Me, as I freely forgive them in the word of a Christian King; so I believe You will find them truly zealous to repay with interest that Loyalty and Love to you which was due to Me.

In summ, what Good I intended, do you perform, when God shall give you Power. Much Good I have offered, more I purposed to Church and State, if Times had been capable of it.

The deception will soon vanish, and the Vizards will fall off apace: This mask of Religion on the face of Rebellion (for so it now plainly appears, since my Restraint and cruel usage, that they fought not for Me, as was pretended) will not long serve to hide some mens Deformities.

Happy times, I hope, attend You, wherein your Subjects (by their Miseries) will have learned, That Religion to their God and Loyalty to their King cannot be parted without both their Sin and their Infelicity.

I pray God bless You, and establish your Kingdoms in Righteousness, your Soul in true Religion, and your Honor in the Love of God and your People.

And if God will have Disloyalty perfected by My Destruction, let my Memory ever with my Name live in You, as of your Father that loves You, and once a KING of Three flourishing Kingdomes; whom God thought fit to honor not only with the Scepter and Government of them, but also with the suffering many Indignities and an untimely Death for them, while I studied to preserve the rights of the Church, the power of the Laws, the honor of my Crown, the Privilege of Parliaments, the Liberties of my People, and My own Conscience; which, I thank God, is dearer to Me than a thousand Kingdoms.

I know God can, I hope he yet will restore Me to my Rights: I cannot despair either of his Mercy, or of my People's Love and Pity.

At worst, I trust I shall but go before You to a better Kingdom, which God hath prepared for Me, and Me for it, through my Saviour Jesus Christ, to whose Mercies I commend You and all Mine. Farewel, till We meet, if not on Earth, yet in Heaven.

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APPENDIX, No. III.

"There he continued for some time, receiving the sad news of the death of his Sister the Princesse Elizabeth, who dyd at Carisbrook Castle." (Life of James the Second, p. 49.)

From the Council of State 27th August 1650, concerning the King's Children. (In the possession of G. Duchets, Esq.)

To Coll. Sydenham, Governor of the Isle of Wight.
SIR,

The Parliament hath appointed the two Children of the late King, who are now at the Earl of Leicester's at Penshurst, shall be sent out of the limits of the Commonwealth; and have referred the same to this Council to see done accordingly; and untill that can be done, we have thought it fit and necessary they be sent to Carresbroke Castle; and have sent you this notice hereof before, that you might be ready for them. And for that we are informed, there are designs of mischief carrying on in severall places, we recommend that island to your more especiall care. And if there be any persons therein, whom you shall judge may bring danger thereunto, you are hereby desired and authorized to put them out of the Isle, and to seize upon and secure the Horses, Arms, and Ammunition of any, whom you shall suspect will make an ill use of them to interrupt the public peace. Signed in the names and by order of the Council of State appointed by the authority of Parliament.

Whitehall 27th August 1650.

JO. BRADDSHAWE, presid.

(From Thurloe's State Papers, Vol. 1. p.158.)

APPENDIX, No. IV.

AN ACCOUNT of what appeared on opening the Coffin of King CHARLES THE FIRST, in the Vault of King Henry the Eighth in St. George's Chapel at Windsor, on the 1st of April 1813. By Sir HENRY HALFORD, Bart. F.R.S. and F.A.S. Physician to the King and the Prince Regent.

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(Reprinted with Sir Henry's permission.)

T is stated by * Lord Clarendon, in his History of the Rebellion, that the Body of King Charles I. though known to be interred in St. George's Chapel at Windsor, could not be found, when searched for there, some years afterwards. It seems, by the Historian's account, to have been the wish and the intention of King Charles II. after his Restoration, to take up His Father's corpse, and to re-inter it in Westminster Abbey, with those royal honours which had been denied it under the Government of the Regicides. The most careful search was made for the body by several people, amongst whom were some of those noble persons whose faithful attachment had led them to pay their last tribute of respect to their unfortunate Master by attending Him to the grave. Yet such had been the injury done to the Chapel, such were the mutilations it had undergone, during the period of the Usurpation, that no marks were left, by which the exact place of burial of the King could be ascertained.

* Vol. 3. Part. I. p. 393. Oxford 1807.

There is some difficulty in reconciling this account, with the information which has reached us, since the death of Lord Clarendon, particularly with that of Mr. Ashmole, and more especially with that most interesting narrative of Mr. Herbert given in the "Athenæ Oxonienses." Mr. Herbert had been a Groom of the bed-chamber, and a faithful companion of the King in all circumstances, from the time He left the Isle of Wight, until His death- was employed to convey His body to Windsor, and to fix upon a proper place for His interment there; and was an eye-witness to that interment, in the Vault of King Henry VIII.

Were it allowable to hazard a conjecture, after Lord Clarendon's deprecation of all conjectures on the subject, one might suppose, that it was deemed imprudent, by the Ministers of King Charles II. that His Majesty should indulge His pious inclination to re-inter His Father, at a period, when those ill-judged effusions of loyalty, which had been manifested, by taking out of their graves, and hanging up the bodies of some of the most active Members of the Court, which had, condemned and executed the King, might, in the event of another triumph of the Republicans, have subjected the body of the Monarch to similar indignity. But the fact is, King Charles I. was buried in the Vault of King Henry VIII. situated precisely where Mr. Herbert has described it; and an accident has served to elucidate a point in history, which the great authority of Lord Clarendon had involved in some obscurity.

On completing the Mausoleum which His present Majesty has built in the Tomb-house, as it is called, it was necessary to form a passage to it from under the choir of St. George's Chapel. In constructing this passage, an aperture was made accidentally in one of the walls of the Vault of King Henry VIII. through which the workmen were enabled to see, not only the two coffins, which were supposed to contain the bodies of King Henry VIII. and Queen Jane Seymour, but a third also, covered with a black velvet pall, which, from Mr. Herbert's narrative, might fairly be presumed to hold the remains of King Charles I.

On representing the circumstance to the Prince Regent, His Royal Highness perceived at once, that a doubtful point in History might be cleared up by opening this Vault; and accordingly His

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