The wreck of Westminster Abbey : being a selection from the monumental records of the most conspicuous personages, who flourished towards the latter end of the eighteenth century, and which, from their impartiality, have ever been considered a convincing testimony of the independance of the age; including, among many others, the following royal, noble, and literary personages ... / By the author of Kilkhampton Abbey [i.e. Sir Herbert Croft].

  • Croft, Herbert, Sir, 1751-1816.
Date:
2001 [i.e. 1788?]
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Credit: The wreck of Westminster Abbey : being a selection from the monumental records of the most conspicuous personages, who flourished towards the latter end of the eighteenth century, and which, from their impartiality, have ever been considered a convincing testimony of the independance of the age; including, among many others, the following royal, noble, and literary personages ... / By the author of Kilkhampton Abbey [i.e. Sir Herbert Croft]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    <’ >9 ) In a mod confpicuous part of the Chance!, and under a moft elegant difplay of fepulchral Architecture, Are depofited the Remains of _ _ * * * f The early part of his Life was conducted with all the impetuofity of Riot and Debauchery, Youthful, Healthy, and unextinguifhable in his Defires, at the fame Time unfettered by the Shakles of Government : He purlued a courfe of uninterrupted Libertinifm, the lively Bacchus, and the darling Goddefs' Venus were his Afiqciates. Say not, confcientious Reader, this was beneath his Dignity, rather confider it as the ebullition of youthful folly. By an unprovided-for courfe of Extravagance: By the numerous Penfioners to which his unbounded Charity didlated as proper Objects, And by the erection of a Palace compatible with his Princely Dignity, His Finances were fo much exhaufted, that an Application to Parliament for immediate afiiftance was neceftary: But this was violently oppoled by his Royal Father, and the feconding of the Motion refufed by the Miniftry. Why, fay you, Reader ? Becaufe he would not coincide with their unpopular Meafures;, He nobly difdained their Terms, and in confequence thereof, fold by Public Auction, every Article of Princely Luxury, Rop’d the Completion of his Palace, and re- figned the greatefi: part of his Revenue for the Difcharge of his Creditors. As I