eminent for their candour and integrity, retain their reputation.*

Before this volume is the following address

"To the Reader.

"These Memoirs were written by a gentleman of great integrity and wisdom, who by means of his stations and employments under King Charles the first, of blessed memory, and near attendance on his person, had great opportunities of knowing the most considerable occurrences of those times, with the secret springs by which they moved: as also the characters of the persons that were most concerned and active in them.

"And as the vindicating of the cause and actions of his Royal Master and his friends, and to do right truth, were the great inducements to his writing these remarks: so to rectify mistakes, and rescue the memory of that injured Prince from the false imputations and indignities, that have been cast upon him by prejudiced and malicious men, is the cause of this publication.

"More is not needful to be said, than to assure the world, that these papers are genuine, and published from the author's original manuscripts, by a faithful friend, with whom they were intrusted. Except I may have leave to add that, as the author wrote with freedom according to his genius and his principles, so 'tis hoped he will be read with candor and just allowance by all gentlemen of what sentiments soever."

Granger, IV. 66. See an original Memoir of Sir Philip, with a portrait, in Gent. Mag. Vol. LX. p. 781, copied into Biogr. Dict. Vol. XV.

P. 116,

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The book was edited by Dr. Thomas Smith, the learned writer concerning the Greek church. It first appeared in 1701.

Sir Thomas Herbert, Bart. was son of Christopher Herbert, son of Thomas Herbert, Alderman, of York, descended by a younger son from Sir Thomas Herbert of Colebrooke, in Monmouthshire, Kt. He was born in Yorkshire, entered of Jesus College, Oxford, 1621, thence taken under the patronage of his relation William Earl of Pembroke. Hence he was sent to travel in Asia, and Africa; and, on his return, published "A relation of some years' Travels into Africa and the greater Asia, especially the territories of the Persian Monarchy, and some parts of the Oriental Indies and isles adjacent. Lond. 1634, 1638, &c. 1677," Fol. which is the fourth impression, wherein many things are added, not in the former. In the Rebellion he adhered to the cause of the Parliament; and when the Parliament Commissioners in 1647 removed the King's own servants from about his person at Holdenby, Mr. Thomas Herbert was with Mr. James Harrington received as Groom of his Majesty's Bedchamber. In that employment he continued to serve, with great fidelity and affection, till his royal master was, to the horror of all the world, brought to the block.

Mr. Herbert was created a Baronet 3 July 1660, and died 1 March 1681, aged 76. He married 1st Lucia daughter of Sir Walter Alexander, by whom he had Sir Henry, his successor, and other children. His

• Wood's Ath. II. 691.

second

second wife was Elizabeth daughter of Sir Gervase Cutler of Stainborough, in Yorkshire, Kt.*

These Memoirs contain the following passages in the Advertisement to the Reader.

"There having been of late years several Memoirs printed and published relating to the lives and actions of the Royal Martyr, King Charles I. of ever blessed memory; it was judged a proper and seasonable time to publish Sir Thomas Herbert's Carolina Threnodia under the title of his Memoirs; there being contained in this book the most material passages of the two last years of the life of that excellent and unparallelled Prince, which were carefully observed and related by the author in a large answer of a letter wrote to him by Sir William Dugdale. In the same book is printed Major Huntington's Relation made to Sir William of sundry particulars relating to the King; as also Col. Edward Coke's, and Mr. Henry Firebrace's Narratives of several memorable passages observed by them during their attendance on him at Newport in the Isle of Wight, Ann. 48. All these were copied from a Manuscript of the Right Reverend, the Bishop of Ely, lately deceased; and, as I am credibly informed, a copy of the several originals is now to be seen amongst the Dugdale Manuscripts in Oxford Library.

"To these Memoirs are added two or three small tracts, which give some account of the affairs of those times; of the character of King Charles I. and of his just claim and title to his "Divine Meditations."

See Wood's Ath. II. 690, where are long extracts from his letters regarding the last years of Ch. I. nearly, if not quite, in the same words as were afterwards published in the Memoirs. See also an abridged Memoir of Herbert, Biogr. Dict. VIII. 58,

These

These having been printed An. 46, 48, 49, and very scarce and difficult to procure, were thought fit to be reprinted for public service.

"As to the letter, which gives an account of Mr. Lenthal's carriage and behaviour on his death-bed, it was twice printed An. 62, and the truth of it attested by the learned Dr. Dickenson, now living in St. Martin's Lane," &c.

Herbert's Memoirs end at p. 150, then begins " The Relation which Major Huntington made to me Sir William Dugdale, Knight, Garter Principal King of Arms, in the month of June, Anno 1679, of sundry particulars relating to King Charles I. of blessed memory." This ends at p. 163.

Then follows "A Narrative made by Mr. Edward Cooke of Highnam, in the county of Gloucester, who was Colonel of a Regiment under Oliver Cromwell then called Protector, containing certain passages relating to our late Sovereign King Charles I, of blessed memory, which happened at Newport in the Isle of Wight, upon the 29th of Nov. Anno 1648.

At p. 185 begins "The copy of a Letter to Sir George Lane, Knight, Secretary to the Duke of Ormond, written by Mr. Thomas Firebrace, Clerk of the Kitchen to his Majesty King Charles II. containing a narrative of certain particulars relating to his Majesty King Charles I. during the time that he attended on his Majesty at Newport, in the Isle of Wight, Anno 1648, which letter beareth date at Whitehall, July 21, 1675.”

Next is at p. 201, "An Answer sent to the Ecclesiastical Assembly at London, by the reverend, noble, and learned man, John Deodate, the famous professor of Divinity, and most vigilant pastor of Geneva. Translated out of Latin into English," First printed at Geneva 1646,

Then at p. 223, "The Declaration of Mr. Alexander Henderson, principal Minister of the Word of God at Edinburgh, and Chief Commissioner from the Kirk of Scotland to the Parliament and Synod of England, made upon his death-bed." First printed 1648.

At p. 241 is "The Princely Pelican. Royal Resolves presented in sundry choice observations extracted from his Majesty's Divine Meditations. With satisfactory reasons to the whole kingdom, that his sacred person was the only author of them." First printed 1649.

Lastly, at p. 300, 66 repentance."

Speaker Lenthal, his Death-bed

ART. XI. Memoirs of the most material Transactions in England for the last Hundred years preceding the Revolution in 1688. By James Welwood, M.D. Fellow of the Colledge of Physicians, London.-London. 1700. 8vo.

ART. XII. A Detection of the Court and State of England during the reigns of K. James I. Charles I, Charles II. and James II. as also the Inter-regnum. Consisting of private Memoirs, &c. with observa