Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain Engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility and the public collections of the country With biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions . rst printed singly-, and reprinted togetherin 1651: his conference with Fisher, which has been spoken ofabove: an answer to the remonstrance of the House of Commonsin 1628: a speech delivered in the Starchamber, on the censureof Prynne, and the rest. These were printed by himself. Thefollowing did not appear till after his death : a Diary of his life,exquisitely illu
Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain Engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility and the public collections of the country With biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions . rst printed singly-, and reprinted togetherin 1651: his conference with Fisher, which has been spoken ofabove: an answer to the remonstrance of the House of Commonsin 1628: a speech delivered in the Starchamber, on the censureof Prynne, and the rest. These were printed by himself. Thefollowing did not appear till after his death : a Diary of his life,exquisitely illustrative of his true character, which was publishedwith an History of his Troubles and Tryal, by the learnedHenry Wharton : Annotations, or Memorables, of King Jamesthe First, which may be found in Rushworths Collections : aLetter to Sir Kenelm Digby, aud many others: an historicalAccount of the Affairs of the University of Oxford during hisChancellorship ; Officium Quotidianum ; and another Manualof private Devotions. Archbishop Laud died unmarried. His body was buried in thechurch of Allhallows Barking, in London, but was removed, afterthe Restoration, to the chapel of his favourite house, St. JohnsCollege, in Oxford. 13. , ) KAKI. OF MIDDLESEX,on. iv-ci tHiU ritr. unianua. ttv niK Ills TllK KIKK llK IXIKSKT LIONEL CRANFIELD, FIRST EARL OF MIDDLESEX. 1 o those, if such are still to be found, who would maintain thatJames the first either felt the dignity, or understood the interests,of royalty; or possessed the wisdom, or even tlie cunning, of apolitician; it will be sufficient to answer that he advanced thisperson to the first post in his government, and nearly to thehighest rank of the peerage, at the precise moment when thepublic respect to tlie aristocracy began evidently to fail, and whenthe aid of that body was more than ever necessary to the supportof the throne. Lionel Cranfield was a man of such ordinarybirth that even the names
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