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< him, & I kept a becoming distance, not hearing any thing y was f', yet c' perceive yo Mâtye penfive by yo looks, & that y A. Bp gave a figh; who, after a short stay, againe kiffing yo' hand, returned, but wth face all ye

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way towards yo' Mâtye, & making his ufual "reverences, he being fo fubmifs, as he fell "proftrate on his face on the ground, & I immediately step to him to help him up, wch I "was then acting, w" your Mâtye saw me trou "bled in my fleep. The impreffion was fo lively, y' I look'd about, verily thinking it was no ❝ dream.

"The K f', my dream was remarkable, but "he is dead; yet had we conferred together during life, 'tis very likely (albeit I loved him well) I should have fa fomething to him, might "have occafioned his figh.

"Soon after I had told my dream, D'• Juxon, "then Bp of London, came to the K3, as I re"late in y' narrative I fent S' W" Dugdale, wch "I have a tranfcript of here, nor know whether "it refts with his Grace y A. Bp of Cant. or "SW. Dugdale, or be disposed in S Jo" Cot"ton's Library near Westminster-hall; but wish

you had y' perusal of it before you return into y' North. And this being not communicated X 3

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but your felf, you may fhew it to his

"Grace & none else, as you promised, S',

"Yo' very affect. fn' & ferv'

"York, 28 Aug 1680."

"THO: HERBERT.

Many resemblances occur in feveral of the circumstances attending the execution of this Prince and that of the late unfortunate Louis XVI. The following extract is made from a very curious little book, called " England's Shame, or the "Unmasking of a Politic Atheist; being a full "and faithful Relation of the Life and Death of "that Grand Impoftor Hugh Peters. By Wil

liam Young, M. D. London, 1663. 12mo. "Dedicated to Her Moft Excellent Majesty "Henrietta Maria, the Mother Queen of Eng"land, Scotland, France, and Ireland."

"The foldiers were fecretly admonished by "letters from Hugh Peters to exercise the ad"mired patience of King Charles, by upbraid

ing him to his face; and fo it was; for hav"ing gotten him on board their boat to tranf66 port him to Weftminster-hall, they would not "afford him a cushion to fit upon, nay, scarcely "the company of his fpaniel, but fcoffed at him "moft vilely; as if to blafpheme the King were "not to blafpheme God, who had established

him to be his Vicegerent, our fupreme Mo

"derator,

"derator, and a faithful Cutos Duarum Tabularum Legum, Keeper of both Tables of the

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"The King being safely arrived at Whitehall, "(that they might the easier reach the crown,) "they do with pious pretences, feconded with "fears of declining, hoodwink their General "Fairfax to condefcend to this bloody facrifice. "Whereas Oliver Cromwell and Ireton would

appear only to be his admirers, and spectators "of the regicide, by standing in a window at "Whitehall, within view of the fcaffold and the

people; whilst Peters, fearing a tumult, dif"fembles himself fick at St. James's; conceiting "that he might thereby plead not guilty, though <c no man was more forward than he to encourage Colonel Axtel in this action, and to ani"mate his regiment to cry for justice against the "traitor, for fo they called the King."

"The refolve paffed," adds Dr. Young, " that "the King muft be conveyed from Windfor "Caftle to Hampton Court, Harrison rides with "him, and upbraids him to his face. Peters "riding before him out of the Castle, cries, "We'll whisk him, we'll whisk him, now we "have him. A pattern of loyalty, one formerly

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"Peters's bridle, fays, Good Mr. Peters, what "will you do with the King? I hope that you "will do his perfon no harm. That Peters

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might be Peters, he replies, He shall die the "death of a traitor, were there never a man in England but he. The Captain forced to loofe his hold of the reins by a blow given him over his hand with Peters's staff, this trumpeter of forrow rides on finging his fad note, "We'll whisk him, we'll whisk him, I warrant you, now we have him!",

Oliver Cromwell is faid to have put his hand to the neck of Charles as he was placed in his coffin, and to have made obfervations on the extreme appearance of health and a long life that his body exhibited upon diffection. Oliver was at first anxious to have ftained the King's me mory, by pretending that he had a fcandalous disease upon him at the time of his death, had he not been prevented by the bold and fteady affertion to the contrary made by a phyfician, who chanced to be prefent at the opening of the body.

Sir Thomas Herbert, who was Groom of the Bedchamber to Charles, and who waited on him for two years previous to his decapitation, has written a very curious and interefting account of that period,

He

He attended his master to the scaffold, but had not the heart to mount it with him. At the staircase he refigned him into the hands of good Bishop Juxon. He tells this curious anecdote respecting the Lord General Fairfax's ignorance of the King's death:---When the execution was over, Sir Thomas, in walking through the Long Gallery at Whitehall, met Lord Fairfax, who faid to him, "Sir Thomas, how does the King?"

which," adds he, " I thought very strange, (it "feemed thereby that the Lord General knew not "what had paffed,) being all that morning (and "indeed at other times) ufing his power and in"tereft to have the execution deferred for fome days." Cromwell, however, knew better; for on feeing Sir Thomas he told him, that he should have orders fpeedily for the King's burial. When Charles was told, that he was foon to be removed from Windfor to Whitehall, he only faid, "God is everywhere alike in wisdom, 66 power, and goodness."

Charles the First was a man of a very elegant mind. He had a good tafte in art, and drew tolerably well. A Gentleman at Bruffels has feveral original letters of Rubens in MS. In one of them he expreffes his fatisfaction at being foon to vifit England; "for (adds he) I am told "that the Prince of that country is the best

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