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Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1814 Excerpt: ... more severe, as there were, soon after his But there are not wanting other authorities, to render the charge of popery probable against Charles. As early as in September 2, 1650, Mr. Whitlock tells us of letters that propositions and motives were presented tot he pope, on the behalf of king Charles the Second; shewing his good inclinations to the catholicks, by what he had done in Ireland for them, and in other instances; and desiring from his holiness considerable sums of money out of his treasury, and that he would send to all princes and states of the catholick religion in Europe, to contribute to the assistance of king Charles; with several other the like proposals, and a copy of them inclosed in the letters. Mr. Thurloe, in a letter to Mountague, afterwards lord Sandwich, dated, Whitehall, Ap. 28, 1656, says, the pretended kingputs himself and his cause into the hands of the king of Spain, to be managed by him; and hath declared himself in private to them to be a Roman catholick, as they call itb. Thurloe, we know, had the best intelligence. Two or three paragraphs from Mr.Carte''s History of the Duke of Ormonde, will, in the opinion of a few, add some farther force to the foregoing proofs. The duke, he tells us, had some suspicions of the kings change of religion, from the time that they removed from Cologne into Flanders; though he was not fully convinced, till about the time the treaty of the Pyrenees was going to be opened. The duke, continues this writer, was always a very early riser; and being then at Brussels, used to amuse himself, at times others were in bed, in walking about the town, and-seeing the churches. Going one morning very Whitlock, p. 469. Ormonde''s Letters, vol. IL p. 102. death, copies of two letters in defence of earl...
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