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death_n	die_v	king_n	time_n	6,570	5	3.4647	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40593	A Full and true relation of the death of K. James who departed this life, the 27th of March.		1689 (1689)	Wing F2320; ESTC R7183	1,645	4

A Full and True RELATION OF THE DEATH OF K. JAMES Who Departed this Life the 27th of March. AS there is nothing so prevalent in the World as Popular Mistakes and Mis-reports and the Generality of Man-kind are but too apt especially in matters of the greatest Moment and relating to the greatest Men to be imposed upon whilst the Truth of things done if either Forreign or Remote is always lyable to gross Misrepresentation and Errors and Abuses in matters of most Importance either by mis-information or uncertainty are daily industriously handed about and also as fondly believed and swallowed there being nothing possibly so much controverted or variously delivered as the Actions the Movements and the Conducts and all other Particulars whether in their Lives or Deaths as those of Kings and Princes For the Rectifying therefore of Faults of that kind we think fit to Publish to the World the full and true Relation of the Death of K. James as we have received it from unquestion'd and undeniable Intelligence and Authority The particular Engagement and Alliance of King James with the French King being to the Wise and Judicious no matter of Novelty we shall be short therefore in that part of our Discourse reciting no more than what necessarily Introduces to the Narration of King James his Death After the French Provisions of Shipping and Men for King James his Designs and the great Hopes of Assistance that had been given him by the French King to deal truly with the Monsieur he began to falter in his Promises and notwithstanding their Intimate Correspondence c. with very slow advances in the Affairs he made many demurrs and delays occasion'd however as we may justly impute it not altogether from his want of good Will to King James's Cause but rather from the Embarrasment and Encumbrance of his own Affairs at home that indeed took up his whole care and Study King James to his no small disquiet and sorrow waited only the French King's leisure whilst the Equipment of his Shipping as he plainly discovered required more Speed than the French King 's faint and sickly Promises could expedite insomuch that truly Dalliances and Complements at last were all his Performance The poor King sensibly afflicted with his many Troubles Disappointments c. and the perplexity of his affairs and finding too late that his unhappy Alliances had only tended to his own Prejudice and Defeat he began to entertain a very deep and radicated Melancholly But alas poor Prince he did not Live to see how all His Forces Alds Expectations and truly his whole Measures dwindled to nothing And the result of all is that though he were a Wise Prince yet Blessings did neither attend his Councils nor Actions So that it is not Humane Wisdom but Divine Direction that orders and disposes all to a good End. In short this aforesaid Melancholy and Afflictions all pressing too heavy upon him a Load too weighty for his Great Spirit to bear his Greifs Disquiets and the Rest of his Resentments no doubt not alittle contributing to His End he fell Sick of an Ague which afterwards turnd into a Feavour which was too Violent for him During his Indisposition and Sickness he was attended by those Persons of Quality and Gentlemen about him who still adhered to him but nothing so exemplar and singular as His Darling the Duke of B ks Assiduity and Tenderness towards him As the King had always treated that particular Favourit with all the Endearments of a Gratious King a Kind Friend and a tender Father so there wanted not on His part how Cordially we cannot say all the Carresses Application and Attendance as from a Creature a Confident and a Couneellor due to the Obligations received from a King. c. The Kings Distemper increasing and His visible Dissolution drawing nigh he call'd for his Son who rising out of his Bed something before day and presenting himself before him the King rais'd himself up as if He meant to speak to him 't is thought to leave some peculiar Commission and charge with him but His Spirits were so Faint and Nature so Weak and exhausted in him that he had not the strength to Express himself but immediately sinking down in his Bed he dyed in his Arms being Early in the Morning the Twenty seventh of March. Is there not a Time and Period prefixt to Earthly Things and the all Dispensing Power does either Infatuate or Establish Councils The King that was very much Impatient in His Health was very Patient in His Sickness and Death His Death being an Object of Universal Pity But much more regretted of all Persons more nearly Related to Him and Embarqed with Him. London Printed for Rob. Hayhurst 1689. Licensed APRIL the 2d 1689. And Entered According to Order