The late Duke of Marlborough, when he was forced, after his own disgrace, to: carry his Duchefs's gold key to the Queen. The old Earl of Pembroke, when a Scotch Lord gave him a lash with a whip at New-market, in presence of all the nobility, and he bore it with patience. King Charles II. of England, when he entered into the fecond Dutch war, and in many other actions during his whole reign. Philip II. of Spain, after the defeat of the Armada. The Emperor Charles V. when he refigned his crown, and no body would believe his reafons. King Charles I. of England, when, in gallantry to his Queen, he thought to furprize her with a prefent of a diamond buckle, which he pushed down her breast, and tore her flesh with the tongue; upon which fhe drew it out, and flung it on the ground. Fairfax, Fairfax, the parliament general, at the time of King Charles's trial. Julius Cæfar, when Antony offered to put a diadem on his head, and the people fhouted for joy to fee him decline it; which he never offered to do, until he faw their diflike in their countenances. Coriolanus, when he withdrew his army from Rome at the intreaty of his mother. Hannibal at Antiochus's court. Beau Fielding, at fifty years old, when, in a quarrel upon the ftage, he was run into his breaft, which he opened and fhewed to the ladies, that he might move their love and pity; but they all fell a laughing. The Count de Buffy Rabutin, when he was recalled to Court after twenty years banishment into the country, and affected to make the fame figure he did in his youth. The Earl of Sunderland, when he turned Papist in the time of King James II. and underwent all the forms of a Heretic converted. Pope Clement vi Pope when he was taken prisoner, at Rome, by the Emperor Charles V.'s forces. Queen Mary of Scotland, when the fuffered Bothwel to ravish her, and pleaded that as an excufe for marrying him. King John of England, when he gave up his kingdom to the Pope, to be held as a fief from the fee of Rome. CONCERNING CONCERNING THAT UNIVERSAL HATRED, WHICH PREVAILS against the CLERGY. MAY 24, MDCCXXXVI, HAVE been long confidering and conjecturing, what could be the causes of that great disgust, of late, against the Clergy of both kingdoms, beyond what was ever known 'till that Monster and Tyrant, Henry VIII. who took away from them, against law, reason, and juftice, at least two thirds of their legal poffeffions; and whofe fucceffors (except Queen Mary) went on with their rapine, till the acceffion of King James I. That deteftable Tyrant Henry VIII. although he abolished the Pope's power in England, as univerfal bishop, yet what he did in that article, however juft it were in itself, was the mere effect of his irregular appetite, to divorce himself himself from a wife he was weary of, for a younger and more beautiful woman, whom he afterwards beheaded. But, at the fame time, he was an entire defender of all the Popish doctrines, even those which were the most abfurd. And, while he put people to death for denying him to be head of the church, he burned every offender against the doctrines of the Roman Faith; and cut off the head of Sir Thomas More, a person of the greatest virtue this kingdom ever produced, for not directly owning him to be head of the church. Among all the princes who ever reigned in the world there was never fo infernal a beaft as Henry VIII. in every vice of the moft odious kind, without any one appearance of virtue: But cruelty, luft, rapine, and atheism, were his peculiar talents. He rejected the power of the Pope for no other reafon, than to give his full fwing to commit facrilege, in which no tyrant, fince Chriftianity became national, did ever equal him by many degrees. The abbeys, endowed with lands by the mistaken notion of well-disposed men, were indeed too numerous, and hurtful to the kingdom; and, therefore, the |