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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35246	The Secret history of the four last monarchs of Great-Britain, viz. James I, Charles I, Charles II, James II to which is added an appendix containing the later reign of James the Second, from the time of his abdication of England, to this present Novemb. 1693 : being an account of his transactions in Ireland and France, with a more particular respect to the inhabitants of Great-Britain.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1693 (1693)	Wing C7347; ESTC R31345	102,037	180

where the Keeper for the time being two Bishops two Judges and as many wise Lords and great Officers Sate as thought fit to come the most of whom though unable to render a reason for their Censure did every Wednesday and Friday in Term-time concur like so many Canibals to tear such as refused to Worship the Minion or to yield to the pretended Royal Prerogative Nor did they scape who were any way Satyrical a thing not to be avoided by the Lovers of Truth Corruption being as common as Execution with which it seldom went other than hand in hand The palpable Partiality that descended from the King to the Scots did estate the whole love of the English upon his Son Henry whom they engaged by so much expectation as it may be doubted whether it ever lay in the Power of any Prince meerly hum●ne to bring so much Felicity unto a Nation as they d●d all his Life propose to themselves at the Death of King Iames. The Government of this Young Princes House was with much Discretion Modesty Sobriety and which was looked upon as too great an upbraiding the contrary proceedings of his Father in an high reverence to Piety not Swearing himself nor keeping any that did through which he came to be advanced beyond an ordinary measure in the Affections of the City to whom he was not only plausible in his Carriage but very just in Payments so far as his Credit out-reached the King 's both in the Exchange and the Church in which the Son could not take so much Felicity as the Father did Discontent to find all the worth he imagined in himself wholly lost in the hopes the People had of this young Gentleman from whence Kings may be concluded far more unhappy than ordinary Men for tho' whilst Children are young they may afford them safety yet when arrive at that Age which used to bring comfort to other Parents they produce only Jealousie and Fear For if Deformed Foolish or Vitious they offend the natural Disposition of a Father who cannot but desire his Issue perfect if they prove otherwise and be excellent that of a Prince because his Reign must needs be thought dim and tedious who hath such a Spark to succeed him as this Henry which in all Mens Judgments appeared more illustrious than his old Father Thus are Kings found as remote from Felicity with Children as from safety without And as the last of these Considerations have tempted some to Acknowledge the Issue of Strangers If the positive Assertions of some as well as common Fame does not out-strip Truth King Iames was by Fear led into great and strange Extreams finding his Son Henry not only averse to any Popish Match but saluted by the Puritans as one prefigured in the Apocalyps for Rome's Destruction insinuating as if the Prince was not kindly dealt by ● should quite have omitted this conjecture and left it wholly to the Decision of the great Tribunal was it not certain that his Father did dread him and that the King though he would not deny him any thing he plainly desired yet it appeared rather the result of Fear and outward Complyance than Love and natural Affection This King 's extravagant Anti-Suppers was a Vanity not heard of in Fore-Fathers time or ever practised since and for ought I have read unpractised by the most Luxurious Tyrants The manner of which was to have the Board covered at the first entrance of the Guest with Dishes seven Foot high filled with the choicest Viands Sea or Land could afford and all this once seen and having seasted the Eyes of the invited was in a manner thrown away and fresh set on to the same height An Attendance on the King Eat at one of these Suppers a whole Pye valued at Ten Pounds Sterling being composed of Ambersgreece Musk c. As no other reason seemed to appear in this Kings choice but handsomness so the love the King shewed wa● as amorously conveyed as if he had mistaken their Sex and thought them Ladies which Somers●t and Buckingham did labour to resemble in the Es●eminateness of their Dressings though in wanton Look● and wanton Gestures they exceeded any part of Woman-kind Nor was his Love or what else the World will please to call it carried on with a Discression sufficient to cover a less scandalous Behaviour for the King kissing them after so lascivious a Mode in Publick and upon the Theatre as it were of the World prompted many to imagine things done in the Tiring-House that exceed my Expression no less than they do my Experience Now as to the Poysoning Business of Sir Thomas Overbury on which account King Iames made so many dreadful Imprecations upon himself and Posterity not to spare any that were found Guilty but how he f●iled the Relation will inform The Earl of Montg●mery declining in his Favour with King Iames Mr. R. Carr a very handsome Gentleman and well bred appear'd upon the Stage who chose for his chief Companion Sir Thomas Overbury a Gentleman of excellent Parts but very Proud and Haughty Now was Carr Knighted and Overbury's Pride rose with the others Honours then was the strife between the Two great Statesmen Salisbury and Suffolk who should most indear themselves with this great Favourites Creature Overbury but he with a kind of scorn neglected both their Friendships Northampton finding himself neglected by so mean a Spark as he thought follow'd Balaam's Counsel by sending a Moabitish Woman unto him in which he made use of one Coppinger a Gentleman who had spent a fair Estate and to supply his necessities was turned a kind of Procurer or what the present Town calls a Cock Bawd This Meabitish Woman was a Daughter of the Earl of Suffolk and Wife to the young Earl of Essex This Train took and the first private Meeting was at Coppinger's House This privacy in their stollen Pleasure made Coppinger a Friend to Northampton and Suffolk though but a Servant to Viscount Rochester for so was Carr now made Overbury was that Iohn Baptist that reproved the Lord for that Sin of using the Lady and abusing the young Earl he would often call her Strumpet and her Mother and Brothers Bawds c. Then to satisfie Overbury and blot out the name of Sin his ●ove led him into a more desperate way by a Resolution to Marry another Man's Wife against this then did Overbury exclaim much louder On which a Council was held to concert about the best means to be rid of him The Plot then was he must be sent a Leidger Ambassador into France which by obeying they should be rid of so great an Eye-sore by disobeying he incurred the Displeasure of his Prince ● C●ntempt that he could not expect less than Imprisonment for and by that means be sequ●stred from his Friends And thus far I do believe the Earl of Somerse● for so was he now made was consenting this Stratagem took and Overbury might truly say Video meliora