that it happened, that they two had a private conference about the matter; and the chancellor being earnest to bring the treasurer to his opinion, took the freedom to tell him, That he was better acquainted with the king's temper and inclinations than Southampton could reasonably expect to be, having had long and intimate acquaintance with his majefty abroad; and that he knew him fo well, that, if fuch a revenue was once fettled upon him for life, neither of them two would be of any farther ufe; and, that they were not, in probability, to fee many more feffions of parliament during that reign: that Southampton was brought over; but that this paffage could not be kept fo fecret, but it came to king Charles's ears; which, together with other things, wherein Clarendon was mifreprefented to him, proved the true reafon why he aban doned him to his enemies. The earl was fucceeded in his office by Sir Orlando Bridgeman, with the title of lordkeeper, in his chancellorship of Oxford, by archbishop Sheldon; and being informed, two or three years after his exile, that his daughter, the dutchess of York, was turning, if not turned papift; he wrote a very artful letter to the duke about it, as if he had been still himfelf a proteftant, though he knew him to be a concealed papift; and another more at large to his daughter; wherein, though he thewed a very laudable distance and refpect, upon account of the difference of their conditions, yet he he ufed the freedom and authority, as well as the tenderness, of a parent; and manifested the great knowledge he had in polemical divinity, and the artifices of the church of Rome to gain profelytes. The noble earl, in the course of his exile, fojourned in several parts of France, till the year 1674, when, on the feventh of December, he paid his last debt to Nature, near the city of Roan, in Normandy; from whence his body was conveyed into England, and buried on the north fide of Capella Regum, in St. Peter's, commonly called the abbey church of Westminster. This great and learned chancellor, befides feveral letters, fpeeches, &c. of his that are extant, wrote, 1, A Full Anfwer to an Infamous and Trayterous Libel; entitled, A Declaration of the Commons of England, in Parliament affembled, expreffing their Reafons and Grounds of pafling their late Refolutions, touching no farther Addrefs or Application to be made to the King, Lond. 1648, 4°. 2, The Eftates and Conditions of George Duke of Buckingham, and Robert, Earl of Effex. See Relique Wottonianæ, &c. Lond. 1672, 8vo. 3, Animadverfions on a Book entitled, Fanaticifm, fanatically imputed to the Catholic Church, by Dr. Stillingfleet; and the Imputation Refuted and Retorted, by Ser. Creffi. Lond. 1674, 8vo. 4, A Brief View and Survey of the Dangerous and Pernicious Errors to Church and State, in Mr. Hobbs's VOL. VII. D Book, Book, The Leviathan. Oxon. 1676, 4°. 5, The Hiftory of the Rebellion, begun in 1641, &c. 3 vols. folio, and fince in 8vo. He left in manufcript, A Hiftory, or Historical Account, of Ireland; made ufe of by Edmond Borlace, without acknowledgment, in his book, or books, published of the affairs of that kingdom and, within thefe few years, three volumes more of his lordship's Hiftory have been published by the university of Oxford. |