Life and Administration of Edward, First Earl of Clarendon: Letters and papers, 1837

Thomas Henry Lister

Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1837

Contents

• of the Kings Bench: 1
• Sir John Berkeley to Sir Edward Hyde Gorings: 6
• Sir Edward Hyde to Lord Goring A letter: 8
• Sir Richard Grenville to Lord Colepepper com: 12
• Sir Edward Hyde to Sir Edward Nicholas Com: 19
• Lord Goring to Lord Colepepper complaining: 20
• Lord Colepepper to the Lords of the Princes Council: 26
• Sir Edward Hyde to Sir Edward Nicholas: 38
• Sir Edward Hyde to Sir Edward Nicholas: 44
• Sir Edward Hyde to Sir Edward Nicholas: 50
• Sir Edward Hyde to Prince Rupert Senti: 59
• Sir Edward Hyde to Sir Richard Browne: 65
• Sir Richard Grenville to Mr Long conveying: 70
• Major Wood to the Lord Chancellor Hyde: 83
• 1: 87
• Mr Samborne to the Lord Chancellor Hyde: 89
• Major Wood to the Lord Chancellor Hyde warning: 95
• General Montague to Charles II assuring him: 104
• 5: 110
• Sir Henry Bennet to Charles II reporting: 114
• 8: 116
• The Earl of St Albans to the Lord Chancellor: 124
• Lord Massareene to the Duke of Ormond remind: 131
• Sir George Downing to the Lord Chancellor: 134
• Articles proposed by the Portuguese Ambassador: 137
• Sir George Downing to the Lord Chancellor: 144
• Sir George Downing to the Lord Chancellor: 152
• The Lord Chancellor Clarendon to Sir George: 159
• Sir George Downing to the Lord Chancellor: 160
• The Lord Chancellor Clarendon to Sir George: 166
• The Lord Chancellor Clarendon to the Comte: 173
• The Lord Chancellor Clarendon to Sir George: 175
• Sir George Downing to the Lord Chancellor Claren: 178
• Sir George Downing to the Lord Chancellor: 181
• The Lord Chancellor Clarendon to Sir George: 187
• The Lord Chancellor Clarendon to Sir George: 190
• Charles II to the Lord Chancellor Clarendon: 197
• Sir George Downing to the Lord Chancellor Clarendon: 203
• The Lord Chancellor Clarendon to Sir George: 210
• The Lord Chancellor Clarendon to the Duke: 221
• The Lord Chancellor Clarendon to the Duke: 228
• Sir Robert Bindlos to the Earl of Derby Exa: 230
• Lord Cornbury to the Duke of Ormond Writes: 238
• Mr Long to Sir Richard Grenville enjoining: 240
• The Lord Chancellor Clarendon to the Duke: 244
• The Earl of Southampton to the Lord Chancellor: 248
• Sir George Downing to the Lord Chancellor: 254
• Sir George Downing to the Lord Chancellor: 261
• Sir George Downing to the Lord Chancellor: 261
• 261: 261
• Sir George Downing to the Lord Chancellor: 271
• Sir George Downing to the Lord Chancellor: 279
• Sir George Downing to the Lord Chancellor: 288
• Sir George Downing to the Lord Chancellor: 298
• Sir George Downing to the Lord Chancellor: 301
• Sir George Downing to the Lord Chancellor: 307
• Sir George Downing to the Lord Chancellor: 315
• Lord Hollis to Lord Arlington Conduct: 321
• Sir George Downing to the Lord Chancellor: 329
• Sir George Downing to the Lord Chancellor: 335
• Sir George Downing to the Lord Chancellor: 343
• Sir George Downing to the Lord Chancellor: 352
• Sir George Downing to the Lord Chancellor: 358
• The Lord Chancellor Clarendon to the Honor: 364
• Sir George Downing to the Lord Chancellor: 370
• The Honorable Henry Coventry to the Lord: 376
• 1665: 385
• Lord Hollis to Lord Arlington Coolness: 392
• 1665: 398
• The Honorable Henry Coventry to the Lord: 401
• Sir Gilbert Talbot to Lord Arlington Final: 411
• The Honorable Henry Coventry to the Lord: 417
• The Honorable Henry Coventry to Lord: 427
• The Lord Chancellor Clarendon to the Duke: 434
• The Lord Chancellor Clarendon to the Duke: 440
• Instructions addressed to the Earl of St Albans: 443
• The Earl of St Albans to the Lord Chancellor: 450
• The Lord Chancellor Clarendon to the Earl: 453
• The Earl of St Albans to the Lord Chancellor: 459
• The Lord Chancellor Clarendon to the Earl: 462
• Lord Arlington to the Duke of Ormond: 468
• Sir Alan Broderick to the Duke of Ormond: 474
• The Earl of Clarendon to Lord Cornbury: 481
• The Earl of Clarendon to Lady Carteret: 485
• General Monks proposals: 500
• Account of the revenue: 504
• Extracts from a paper entitled The Establish: 510
• The true state of the case betweene the East: 518
• Grant to the Lord Chancellor Clarendon of: 524
• Heads of the charges brought against Lord Claren: 530

Popular passages

Page 40 - Bless us! what a word on A title-page is this! and some in file Stand spelling false, while one might walk to MileEnd Green. Why is it harder, sirs, than Gordon, Colkitto, or Macdonnel, or Galasp? Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek, That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp.‎

Page 203 - Castlemaine's enemy in this matter, I do promise upon my word to be his enemy as long as I live. You may show this letter to my lord lieutenant, and if you have both a mind to oblige me, carry yourselves like friends to me in this matter. CHARLES R.‎

Page 202 - I wish I may be unhappy in this world and the world to come if I fail in the least degree of what I have resolved, which is, of making my Lady Castlemaine of my wife's bedchamber. And whosoever I find use any endeavour to hinder this resolution of mine (except it be only to myself), I will be his enemy to the last moment of my life.‎

Page 62 - Worcester; and, being released with the rest of the king's servants, had* been employed, from the time of the king's return, in the same service under the chancellor; the man having, before the troubles, taught the king, and the duke of York, and the rest of the king's children to write, being indeed the best writer, in Latin as well as English, for the fairness of the hand, of any man in that time.‎

Page 238 - He keeps an exact journal of all that passes, and is punctual to tediousness in all that he relates. He was very early engaged in great secrets, for his father, apprehending of what fatal consequence it would have been to the king's affairs if his correspondence had been discovered by unfaithful secretaries, engaged him when very young to write all his letters to England in cipher ; so that he was generally half the day writing in cipher, or deciphering, and was so discreet, as well as faithful,...‎

Page 103 - A SEASONABLE ARGUMENT TO PERSUADE ALL THE GRAND JURIES IN ENGLAND TO PETITION FOR A NEW PARLIAMENT, OR A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL LABOURERS IN THE GREAT DESIGN OF POPERY AND ARBITRARY POWER...‎

Page 111 - He was capable of great application: and was a man of a grave deportment; but stuck at nothing, and was ashamed of nothing. He was neither loved nor trusted by any man or any side: and he seemed to have no regard to common decencies...‎

Page 233 - it was time to publish it, and then read it again " to me. I told him by that time he had writ as " many declarations as I had done, he would find " they are a very ticklish commodity ; and that " the first care is to be that it shall do no hurt.‎

Page 203 - If you will oblige me eternally, make this business as easy as you can, of what opinion soever you are of, for I am resolved to go through with this matter, let what will come on it ; which again I solemnly swear before Almighty God. Therefore, if you desire to have the continuance of my friendship, meddle no more with this business...‎

Page 135 - Holland, a crafty fawning man, who was ready to turn to every side that was uppermost, and to betray those who by their former friendship and services thought they might depend on him...‎

Bibliographic information

• Title: Life and Administration of Edward, First Earl of Clarendon: Letters and papers, 1837; Volume 3 of Life and Administration of Edward, First Earl of Clarendon: With Original Correspondence, and Authentic Papers Never Before Published, Thomas Henry Lister
• Author: Thomas Henry Lister
• Publisher: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1837
• Original from: Oxford University
• Digitized: May 19, 2006