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    claret by my solemn oath , in the presence of Almighty God , the Searcher of Hearts , my allowance and approbation ' of the National Covenant , and of the Solemn League And Covenant above written , and faithfully oblige

    myself to prosecute the ends thereof in my station and calling ; and that I for myself and successors , shall consent and agree to all Acts of Parliament enjoining the National Covenant , and the Solemn League and Covenant , and fully establish

    Presbyterian Government , the Directory <* f Worship , Confession of Faith , and Catechisms in the Kingdom of Scotland , as they are approved by the General Assemblies of this Kirk , and Parliament of this Kingdom . And that I shall give my royal assent to Acts or Ordinances of Parliament ,

    passed , or to be passed , enjoining the same , in my other dominions . And that I shall observe these in my own practice and family , arid shall never make opposition to any of these or endeavour any change thereof .

    " After the king had thus solemnly sworn , the National Covenant , and the League and Covenant and the King ' s Oath subjoined unto both , being drawn up , in a fair parchment , the King did subscribe the same in presence of all /* Lord Clarendon , so often prolix

    is remarkably concise upon ( his subject . He admits that Charles signed the Covenant , on his landing in Scotland , but on the coronation which , had he been fond of the theme , would have employed many pages , he merely observes , that it *« was passed with great solemnity and magnificence . "*

    Such , however , was the high price in foro conscientjee ^ paid by this most religious king for a crown , which the fortunes of Cromwell yet forbad him to enjoy . At length the death of that extraordinary msui , raised , up , as if to expose the littleness of those who are only born great , suddenly opened

    * Two French writers who have illustrated the British History , on very opposite principles , are equally silent upon the Awful solemnities of this coronation . Father Orleans could not wish to recollect them , and R ^ p , probably never met with the particulars . He only says , after Baker ' s Chronicle , X « Hoi fut couronne ' a Scans ,

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    the way for intrigues which produced the Restoration . To aid these project a pamphlet was published which forms No . 15 , of the Phenix , and contains , " Certain Letters , evidencing Kin * Charles lid's stedfastne&s in the Pr ^ testant religion . "

    The first letter is from the Princess of Turenne in France , to her Cousin Madam de Castelnaut , at London . It is dated 6 th April , 1660 . The Princess mentions , on a visit to Charles " having heard him speak , with so great testimonies of piety , that she

    was extremely edified . He was also pleased to go to sermon at Rochel and at Rouen , " The Princess further remarks , " There can be nothing added to the regularity which this

    Prince keeps in assisting daily , at those exercises of piety , which are kept morning and eveliing in his family . In , a word , I bUss God 9 became ik marks of God ' s election are seen in him . " There are three other lettero

    from Dailie , Gaches ( to Baxter ) , and Drelincourt—Protestant ministers at Paris , containing general testimonials to Charles ' s Protestantism , not without a seasonable hint that the Presbyterians might possibly secure their ascendancy by now promoting the king ' s ** return into his own kingdofi and inheritance "

    Yet after all " The mask must drop , the farce must end . " No . 16 of the Phenix , cdntains , as an introduction to the two papers which have occasioned this detail ,

    " A True Relation of the late Kings Death . " As the Phenix is no longer a very common collection , and the account has been disputed , I shall copy it verbatim . "On Monday , being the < 2 dof Feb , [ 1685 ] the K . rose early , saying that

    he had not slept well the last night ; and about 7 of the clock , coming frow his private devotions out of his closed fell down ( and scarce any sign of We remaining in him for the space of four hours ) of a fit of an apoplexy : W oi

    with the loss of sixteen ounces blood , and other app lications canic again to his senses , and t | ie ^ great hopes of his recovery till i &u * day about one o ' clock $ and at five Doctor ' s being come before the council , ifcclared that the King was £ great danger ~ y and on Friday , 3 < ju

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1815, page 224, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1759/page/24/