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    sfeel by the three beadles of Avarice , Cruelty and Incontinency . Being abandoned by all , I died without the communion of the church , repeating oftentimes in my last hour these words rye have lost ail .

    Being dead , I had the same end as Ab&b , and it is the more remark * able , because it was in the ruins of a religious house , for as my corps wa * on the way to be

    conveyed h it her , the com * a of lead , in which it was put ., did crack by chance , and opened . To soder which , a plumber being sent for , my corpse was set down in the said ruins of the house there . While

    the plumber was running from place to place , his dog , most greedily did lick the blood that issued from me ; a revenge from God , for the effu ~ sion of so much blood which in my life-time 1 had spilled / ' p . 1 £ & 16 . Lord Herbert gives no particulars

    of Hejiry ' s funeral , and this humiliating anecdote would scarcely have been preserved by a courtier . Yet be closes bis Life and Reign of this prince , with a short but comprehensive sentence : —* To < jonclud ? e , < l wish I could leave him

    4 n his grave . " Lord Herbert remarks that IJenry a bad begun a fair monument at Windsor /* He is made

    to say in ibis dialogue , " I comnuuttled that a more sumptuous monument should be provided for me , than was . ever raised for any of ray predecessors , and as yet I h ave no monument at all , although of all the Kings of England , nut one of them had three children

    that successively swayed the sceptre , but myself . But alas ! I need not fear that 1 shall be ever lofct in the memory of men . I have purchased fo myself ao everlasting ^ ame , by uw eoormows offences .

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    All sorts of men do strive as it were in emulation , who shall hate me most . I am become justly odious £ 0 the Catholics , because

    I divided England from the communion of the , Church of Rome . The Protestants hate me , because through all the course of my life I did pursue them with fire and sword . —All lettered men

    will evermore curse iwy memory , because I have utterly destroyed such excellent monuments of learning and antiquity that the Christian world , can hardly paralell . Finally , while 1 was alive most men hated

    me , all men feared me , no man loved me . " pp . 15 , 16 . To this Conference , postfunera virtus , had been no unsuitable

    motto , for , besides the expressions of Henry * s remorse , Charles is made to utter these good sentiments , " I would to God that flattery had never been heard of in the courts

    of princes . I would to God that I had never heard that we are above the law , and are to give an account to God only for what we

    have committed upon earth . —An incomparable scholar , and highly esteemed in the days of myNfather and Queen Elizabeth , hath left recorded , that c God dolh most for

    kings , and kings , again , do least for God . ' "' pp . 1 ? & 19 . Charles had admitted that by the " instigation'' of Laud , he had shewn u more countenance to some practices of the Church of Rome , " than either his father did or

    Elizabeth , On this Henry upbraids him with the folly of being almost a Catholic , adding , " it doth not suffice to sit down in the porch , unless you enter into the . church , ' ' referring to ; King Agfippa , " o £ whom he says ., " he is now bowling with racin the kingdom of dark

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1813, page 360, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2429/page/4/