Mr. William Lilly's True history of King James the First, and King Charles the First. With sundry observations, remarkable passages, and many secret transactions not 'till now divulged / Faithfully published from his own copy.

  • Lilly, William, 1602-1681.
Date:
1715
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Credit: Mr. William Lilly's True history of King James the First, and King Charles the First. With sundry observations, remarkable passages, and many secret transactions not 'till now divulged / Faithfully published from his own copy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mn iy 34 Obfervations on the Life and’ / lowed it, and then the Scots muft have done: it afterward ; for the Clergy at that Time | generally were fuch idle and lazy Lubbers ,. and fo pamper’d with Court Preferment, — and Places ‘Temporal in every Shire of — England, and fuch flattering Sycophants, that — doubrlefs the great Hand of God was in it, — that thofe rude Scots firft broke the Ice, and — taught us the Way to expel an infulting — Priefthood, and to refift the King; he en-_ deavouring by unwarrantable Means to ins | trude things contrary to the Divine Law of — Almighty God upon our Confciences. i In Anno 1638, the Queen Mother of | France, and Mother unto the Englifh Queen — Widow of Henry the Fourth, King of France, 4 Janded in England, and came unto London — the 31ft of October. She was very meanly accompanied, and few of. Quality attend-— ing her: The King moft humanly: and ge- neroufly receives and entertains her, though all Men were extremely againft it; for it was obferved, that where-ever, or unto what Country this miferable old Queen came, there followed immediately after her either the Plague, War, Famine, or one Misfortune or other: Strange it is unto me, _ how fhe could be fo fatal to any Land fhe entred into. Trueitis, and I do very well know, that fome People born under an un- | fortunate Conftellation of Heaven ( with- out.