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Book Worm . —No . VI . Conference imtween the Ghosts of Henry the Eighth and Charles the Firsts Sift * May 2 &th , 1813 . The I » t 6 discovery of the corpse of Charles -the First , which settles a point of history , as to the place of his interment , reminded me of
a curious pamphlet , which has been long in my possession , and is , profoafofey , one of the earliest 1 dialogues of the dead , in the English laBgpage ^ His thus entitled : —
vtf Messenger from the Ttead , or Con ) er&nce 9 full of stupendous hortwury heard distinctly , and by alternate i } oyce& + by many et that
time present .. Between the Ghosts ofH 4 r \ r $ the Eighth and Charles the First of England , in Windsore Chapped , where they toere both huried . lu which the whole Series
of the Divine Judgments , in those infortunate llandfi , is as it were by j a p €$ t < xl from Mc&ven , most lively setfortJi from the first unto tike Last * 4 lo . 20 pp . 16 * 58 . To this title-page is prefixed a print , fcom a wood cut . On the ground ,
amidst scant > ed relicsiof mortality , is & whole-length skeleton . Above , in compartments * are two eject fi gures in winding sheets , each holding a lighted 4 aper . These Mpjere , doubtless , designed to r »» presemt the ghostly speakers in
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this sepulchral conference . On the title-page , as a vignette is a death's head ^ surrounded by wings and the motto , / spes addidit alas of which I do not perceive the application . The Conference opens with thi 9 surly demand from Henry : — "Say who art thou that presumest by a
sacrilegious impiety to disturb the ashes of a king , which so many years have been tit rest Y Charles 66
i « a softer , but most doleful , accent , " now describes himself , as " that unhappy King of England , the undoubted heirof 62 rnonarchsv [ according toBuchanany 108 ] who
did wear the royal crown twentytwo years , 3 . n $ l longer . " This declaration produces a sarcasm from Henry : —' What you a king Did you ever wear a crown 6 ft
your head , who have not a head on your shoulders ? " Charles pite * au&iy replies ^ . ** I have not always wanted a head , my subjects , wo is me , did lately bereave me of it . p ; 5 On Henry s enquiring what heinous crime * 1 * bad led 44 to so great
a violence / ' Charles replies , ** I know iK > t well what ; " and then , not supposed yet to be aware * of his company , he declares his
innocence , as t& various vi ^ es * ** of all which , Henry the Eighth , his prje * decessor , is coiwjtetataed to be guilty by all the worlds ? p % 6 »
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1813, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2429/page/1/
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