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ceeding brave; doubtlefs if he had grace or "civil goodness, he is a moft eloquent man. "The speech you have it here in print. One paffage made it most spoken of; his breaking "off in weeping and filence when he spoke of "his firft wife. Some took it for a true defect "in his memory; others, and for the moft part, "for a notable part of his rhetoric; fome, that "true grief, and remorse at that remembrance, "had stopt his mouth; for they fay that his first lady, the Earl of Clare's fifter, being with

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child, and finding one of his whore's letters, I brought it to him, and chiding him therefore, "he ftruck her on the breaft, whereof shortly "fhe died."

Principal Baillie's account of the apprehension of Lord Strafford is very curious :-" All things go here as we could wifh. The Lieutenant "of Ireland (Lord Strafford) came but on Monday to town, late; on Tuesday refted; and "on Wednesday came to Parliament; but ere night he was caged. Intolerable pride and

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oppreffion call to Heaven for vengeance. The, "Lower Houfe clofed their doors; the Speaker

kept the keys till his accufation was con«cluded. Thereafter Mr. Pym went up with a "number at his back to the Higher House, and,

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"in a pretty fhort fpeech, did in the name of the "Commons of all England accufe Thomas Lord "Strafford of high treafon, and required his

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perfon to be arrested till probation might be "made: fo Mr. Pvm and his back were removed. "The Lords began to confult on that strange "and unpremeditated motion. The word goes "in hafte to the Lord Lieutenant, where he

was with the King: with fpced he comes to "the Houfe of Peers, and calls rudely at the "door. James Maxwell, Keeper of the Black "Rod, opens. His Lordfhip, with a proud

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glooming countenance, makes towards his place at the board head, but at once many "bid him void the Houfe. So he is forced in "confufion to go to the door till he is called. "After confultation he ftands, but is told to kneel, and on his knees to hear the fentence.

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Being on his knees, he is delivered to the "Black Rod to be prifoner till he is cleared of "the crimes he is charged with. He offered to

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fpeak, but was commanded to be gone with"out a word. In the outer room, James Max"well required of him, as prifoner, to deliver "him his fword. When he had got it, with a "loud voice he told his man to carry the Lord "Lieutenant's fword. This done, he makes through a number of people towards his coach, all gazing, no man capping to him, "before

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England would have ftood discovered; all "crying, What is the matter? He said, A small "matter, I warrant you. They replied, Yes

indeed, high treason is a small matter! Com"ing to the place where he expected his coach, "it was not there; fo he behoved to return the "fame way through a world of gazing people. "When at last he had found his coach, and "was entering it, James Maxwell told him, My "Lord, you are my prifoner, and must go in <c my coach; fo he behoved to do. For fome "days too many went to fee him; but fince, "the Parliament has commanded his keepers to "be ftraiter. Pourfuivants are dispatched to "Ireland, to open all the ports, and to proclaim, that all who had grievances might cc come over."

RICHARD BOYLE,

FIRST EARL OF CORK.

DR. WALLER, in his funeral fermon on the death of the Earl's feventh daughter, the Coun. tess of Warwick, fays, "She was truly excel"lent and great in all refpects; great in the

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"honour of her birth, being born a lady and a "vertuofa both, seventh daughter of that emi

nently honourable Richard the first Earl of Corke, who being born a private Gentleman, " and a younger brother of a younger brother, "to no other heritage than this device and "motto, which his humble gratitude infcribed "on all the palaces he built,

"God's Providence is my inheritance;"

"by that Providence, and by his diligent and "wife industry, he raised fuch an honour and

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ject of these three kingdoms did; and that "with fo unfpotted a reputation of integrity, "that the most invidious fcrutiny could find no "blot, though it winnowed all the methods of "his rifing most severely, which the good Lady "Warwick hath often told me with great con"tent and fatisfaction.

"This noble Lord, by his prudent and pious "confort, (no leffe an ornament and honour to "their defcendants than herself,) was bleffed "with five fonnes, of which he lived to fee four "Lords and Peers of the kingdom of Ireland "and a fifth (more than thefe titles fpeak) a fovereign, and peerleffe, in a larger province (that "of univerfal nature), fubdued and made obfe

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"quious to his inquifitive mind *;-and eight daughters. And that you may know how all

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things were extraordinary in this great per"fonage, it will, I hope, be neither unpleasant "nor impertinent to add a fhort story I had "from his daughter's (Lady Warwick's) own "mouth.

"Master Boyle, (afterwards Earl of Corke,) "who was then a widower, came one morning "to wait on Sir Jeoffery Fenton, Secretary of "State for Ireland; who being engaged in bu"finefs, and not knowing who it was that de"fired to speak to him, før a while delayed him "acceffe, which time he spent pleasantly with "the Secretary's daughter, then a child in the "nurfe's arms. But when Sir Jeoffery came "and faw whom he had made stay somewhat "too long, he civilly excufed it. But Mafter

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Boyle replied, he had been very well em

ployed, and had fpent his time much to his "fatisfaction in courting his daughter, if he might obtaine the honour of being his fon-inlaw. At which Sir Jeoffery fmiled, (fo hear

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one who had been formerly married move for " a wife carried in arms, and under two years "old,) and asked him if he could stay for her;

*The Honourable Robert Boyle, one of the greatest natural philofophers that any country has ever produced.

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