The last illness and decease of ... the Duke of York / [Sir Herbert Taylor].

  • Taylor, Herbert, Sir, 1775-1839.
Date:
1827
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Credit: The last illness and decease of ... the Duke of York / [Sir Herbert Taylor]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    daring this distressing and trying period of my attendance upon His Royal High¬ ness^ a statement-, not of the progress of the disease, or of the treatment pursued, but of such circumstances and facts as will show the condition of His Royal High¬ ness’s mind under this awful visitation of Providence ; will do justice to the exem¬ plary resolution and pious resignation with which he met and submitted to it, and will satisfy his attached friends that His Royal Highness was, in every point of view, de¬ serving of the respect and the affection which have so strongly marked their sen¬ timents towards him, and of the deep grief and regret which his death has occasioned m their minds and in those of the respect¬ able and well-thinking individuals of every class in this country.