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From reasoning , Lord Clarendon thus proceeds to intreat , and even to alarm and threaten : ' * I beseech you to consider , that if you change your religion you renounce ajl obedience and affection to your father , who loves you so tenderly , that such an odious mutation would break his heart . You condemn your father , and
your moth r ( whose incomparable virtue , piety and devotion have placed her in heaven ) for having impiously educated you , and you declare the church and state ( to both -which you owe reverence and subjection ) to be in your judgment antichristian . You bring irreparable dishonour , scandal , and prejudice to the Duke your husband—and all possible ruin to your children , of whose company and conversation you must look to be deprived . For , God forbid , that after such an apostacy , you should have any power in the education of your
children : Having here displayed that contempt of the rights of conscience and of private judgment , common to the Protestants of his age , * in conclusion , he thus warns " his daughter , " There are many absurdities in the Roman religion inconsistent with your judgment and understanding * . So that before you can submit to the obligations of that faith , you must divest yourself of your natural reason and common sense . " Who would suppose that Lord Clarendon professed to keep whole and undefiled ,
in commpn with the Roman Church , the article of Original or Birth-Sin , and the doctrines of the Nicene and Athanasian creeds doctrines , according to Bishop Hurd , " at which reason stands aghast and faith herself is Jialf confounded *" Burnet says of this letter to the Duchess , " Her father when he heard of her shaking in her religion , was more troubled at it than at all his own misfortunes . He writ her a very . grave and long letter upon it ,
en-* Even the Long" Parliament , the champions of civil liberty , demanded of Charles 1 st , in 1642 , as to Papists , f that their children shall be brought up in the Protestant religion , " and " that the laws against Popish recusants shall be put in effectual execution . " See the Humble Petition and Advice ^ No . 6 and 7 , in Ludlow i . 34 .
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closed in one to the Duke . But } was dead before it came into En * la ^ ( O . Ti . 310 ) Of the dfcumfii . attending her decease which ha m * t 2 March SI , l 672 , t he says , "AW decay of health came at last to a quick er crisis than had been apprehended All of the sudden she fell into the agony of death . Blandford [ Bishoo of Worcester ] was sent for to nrpna » .
her for it and to offer her the sacrament . Before he could come , the Queen came in , and sat by her . He was modest and humble , even to a fault . So he had not presence of mind enough to begin prayers , which
probably would have driven theQueen out of the room . But that not being done , she pretending kindness would not leave her . The bishop spoke but little and fearfully . He happened to say , he hoped she continued still
m the truth . Upon which she asked , * What is truth ?* And then , her agony increasing , she repeated the word Truth , Truth , often ; and in a few minutes after she died . " ( O . T . i . 309 ) The Duchess of York scarcel y
exceeded the age of 36 . She has the rare fortune to appear in the British History as the mother of two queens * one of the numerous instances of parents whose children come to honour and they know it not . VERMICULUS .
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296 Penal Statutes against the Unitarians of Ireland .
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- ^ - ^^^¦——Sir , HE Trinity Bill , which received Tthe Royal Assent , July 21 st , IB 13 , has established the liberties of
the Unitarians of England and Scotland , on a secure foundation . It » to be regretted , however , that it makes no provision for the freedom and safety of the Irish Unitarians , alin
though there are , as I have been - formed , several severe statutes in force against them . This defect of the BiU is the more surprising , as in the nrst draft of it , which passed the House fl Commons , inserted in your wtt viii . 544 , 545 , it extended to Ireland
as well as Great Britain . Perhaps some of your readew nWf explain the matter . Would it « ° * also be well to state in the M . WV * the enactments of the statutes iM" ^ tion ? ___ u—* - — - ~ t Lord Clarendon did not longr f ^ his daughter . He died at Bouea , ¦» cember- 1673 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1815, page 296, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1760/page/32/
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