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there , arid the-rnnocent recreations of my youth . At Whitehall I was beheaded , the scaffold being erected before the doors of the court , and L passed through that place in which I was accustomed to he present at m ^ sks and shows ; ari d at the entertainment of the
ambassadors of foreign princes . ' p , 7 . Hertry now declares himself rnore fully , and teaches his ghostly visitor that , besides some perversions of justice , with which he
charges Chai'Pes , he is suffering a righteous retribution for the crimes of his predecessors . Charles , by no means , relishes this doctrine . On his asking , " Should a king suffer by bis subjects ? " Henry replies , " We deserve greater
punishments , by committing greater offences . They offend against a mortal king , we , against a King immortal / ' p . 8 . HisenormitiesHenry thus enumerates : — " The spoiling of monastries , having overthrown 376 * and with one edict taken
away all their goods and lands , plundered and levelled to the ground about 1000 churches , *' taking " out of the church of Canterbury above two great chests , so full of gold and precious stones , that four men could hardly stir
either of them . " Henry adds , 44 After that 1 began to shew myself in my own colours , I was as greedy of blood as I was before of gold , and made a great slaughter of all ages , sexes and orders whatsoever , and for no other trespass
than that they opposed rny pleasure . Four queens that successively had been married to me , did lose their lives , either by the axe or by a grief as fatal as the axe . I proscribed two princesses , two cardinals : —I did put to death by the common hangman" twelve
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eminent personages , twenty-twp barons and" knights , sixteen abbots and priors , seventy-seven pri-eists and religious men and others of a lower rank almost not to be numbered . " pp . 12 , 13 . Charles , in his reference to the civil war , having mentioned " the Lord of KimboJton , " as soon as
King Henry had heard the name he fetched a deep sigh , and said , Ah ! at Kimbolton , it was that the most excellent mirrour of her sex , and the example of all virtues , my first wife , Queen Katharine , died , whom I divorced from my
bed , that I might bring into it Ann Bollen , an incontinent woman , whom , not long afterwards , being taken in adultery , I caused to be beheaded by the common hangman . " Henry charges himself
with having commanded the Cctsarean operation to be performed , in the case of his Queen Jane , " adding to the cruelty these barbarous and inhuman words , —that wives could more easily be found than children . " I find Sir John
Hay ward , in * The Life and Reign of King Edward the Sixth , ' * commenting on that peculiar circumstance of Edward ' s birth , though he brings no charge against Henry . Lord Hi rbert and Hume
do not even mention the circumstance , and Burnet ( H . R . iu 1 ) controverts the whole account , on the authority of ** original letters that are yet extant , " which , however he does not appear to have
seen . The result of his story Henry is thus made to communicate ;—46 Not tu speak of the torments which I do n w endure ; what
pangs did I i * ot feel within me wh ' ile I was alive ; being perpetually scourged with rods of knotted
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Book- Worm . —JSTc . VI . 3 59 * - v
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1813, page 359, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2429/page/3/
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