Catalogue of a collection of printed broadsides in the possession of the Society of Antiquaries of London / compiled by Robert Lemon.

  • Society of Antiquaries of London
Date:
1866
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Credit: Catalogue of a collection of printed broadsides in the possession of the Society of Antiquaries of London / compiled by Robert Lemon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tion is to be found in its illustration of popular manners and feelings. These really and truly are seen and made manifest throughout the whole of the collection; hut it contains also many important documents, applicable as authorities, on strictly historical subjects. One example shall be given by way of illustration. Bishop Hacket in his Life of Archbishop Williams (Part ii. p. 96) stated that 44 the christening of Prince Charles [after- wards Charles II.] being celebrated in the chapel of St. James’s House, June 27,1630, and all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal about London being invited thither, to make the splendour eminent, the Bishop of Lincoln [afterwards Archbishop Wil- liams] only was left out, and not admitted to join in prayer and joy with that noble congregation. The more sharp diseases suffer not the lesser to be perceived; yet this omission, light as it might seem, did twinge him, even to outward demonstration of dejectedness, that, in so good a day, wherein the clemency of the King should have run at waste to all men, that then he should be separated from his countenance and this solemnity. 4 But,’ says he, 4 in one respect it was well, for I would not have said Amen to Bishop Laud’s prayer (which lie con- ceived for the royal infant, and was commended to all parish churches) in that passage, 4 Double his father’s graces, O Lord, ivpon him, if it be possible.’ No supplication could be better than to crave increase of grace for that noble branch; for, when a Prince is very good, God is a guest in a human body : but, to put in a supposal, whether the Holy Ghost could double those gifts to the child which he had given to his father, and to confine the goodness and almightiness of the Lord, it was tliree-piled flattery and loathsome divinity.” Down to a recent period, readers of Hacket’s curious book have accepted his statement on this subject without hesitation. Nor did Williams’s sharp comments on the prayer of the brother Bishop to whom he attributed his exclusion from the ceremony, escape the observation of writers adverse to Arch- bishop Laud. Among others, Brodie noticed the circumstances
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