The last days of Charles II / by Raymond Crawfurd.

  • Raymond Crawfurd
Date:
1909
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Credit: The last days of Charles II / by Raymond Crawfurd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fetrangeres at Paris, and many of them have been transcribed in Dalrymple’s Memoirs. 3. The Dispatches of Van Citters, the Dutch Am¬ bassador. These dispatches are far more concise than those of Barillon. They show the mind of a man who has the knack of selecting the points of essential importance, which in those of Barillon are often almost buried in a mass of detail. These dispatches are pre¬ served in the Dutch Archives at the Hague, but some of them are also included in the Mackintosh Collection at the British Museum. 4. Hudleston’s Account, still extant in print in a work entitled: ‘A Short and Plain Way to the Faith and Church: composed many years since by that eminent Divine Mr. Richard Hudleston of the English Congre¬ gation of the Order of St. Benedict; and now published for the common good by his nephew Mr. Jo. Hudleston of the same Congregation. To which is annexed his late Majesty King Charles the Second his Papers found in his Closet after his decease. As also a Brief Account of What Occurred On His Death Bed In Regard to Religion. Permissu Superiorum. London. 1688. quarto.’ This Tract was published under the patronage, and it is believed by request, of King James, and is dedicated to the Dowager Queen Catherine. In the dedication, Hudleston says that he had been one of Catherine’s priests from the time of her accession: and that King Charles first saw the above-named book by Richard Hudleston, when he was hiding at Moseley during his flight after the battle of Worcester. John Hudleston claims that the reading of this book was instrumental in bringing about Charles’s conversion to Romanism. For this reason it was published along with the account of the Death-bed Ceremony, and with
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