LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP and Other Early Works also spelled LOVE AND FREINDSHIP

hand on his sword, and after performing many other services to

his Country. Elizabeth did not long survive his loss, and died

so miserable that were it not an injury to the memory of Mary I

should pity her.

JAMES the 1st

Though this King had some faults, among which and as the most

principal, was his allowing his Mother’s death, yet considered on

the whole I cannot help liking him. He married Anne of Denmark,

and had several Children; fortunately for him his eldest son

Prince Henry died before his father or he might have experienced

the evils which befell his unfortunate Brother.

As I am myself partial to the roman catholic religion, it is with

infinite regret that I am obliged to blame the Behaviour of any

Member of it: yet Truth being I think very excusable in an

Historian, I am necessitated to say that in this reign the roman

Catholics of England did not behave like Gentlemen to the

protestants. Their Behaviour indeed to the Royal Family and both

Houses of Parliament might justly be considered by them as very

uncivil, and even Sir Henry Percy tho’ certainly the best bred

man of the party, had none of that general politeness which is so

universally pleasing, as his attentions were entirely confined to

Lord Mounteagle.

Sir Walter Raleigh flourished in this and the preceeding reign,

and is by many people held in great veneration and respect–But

as he was an enemy of the noble Essex, I have nothing to say in

praise of him, and must refer all those who may wish to be

acquainted with the particulars of his life, to Mr Sheridan’s

play of the Critic, where they will find many interesting

anecdotes as well of him as of his friend Sir Christopher

Hatton.–His Majesty was of that amiable disposition which

inclines to Freindship, and in such points was possessed of a

keener penetration in discovering Merit than many other people.

I once heard an excellent Sharade on a Carpet, of which the

subject I am now on reminds me, and as I think it may afford my

Readers some amusement to FIND IT OUT, I shall here take the

liberty of presenting it to them.

SHARADE

My first is what my second was to King James the 1st, and you

tread on my whole.

The principal favourites of his Majesty were Car, who was

afterwards created Earl of Somerset and whose name perhaps may

have some share in the above mentioned Sharade, and George

Villiers afterwards Duke of Buckingham. On his Majesty’s death

he was succeeded by his son Charles.

CHARLES the 1st

This amiable Monarch seems born to have suffered misfortunes

equal to those of his lovely Grandmother; misfortunes which he

could not deserve since he was her descendant. Never certainly

were there before so many detestable Characters at one time in

England as in this Period of its History; never were amiable men

so scarce. The number of them throughout the whole Kingdom

amounting only to FIVE, besides the inhabitants of Oxford who

were always loyal to their King and faithful to his interests.

The names of this noble five who never forgot the duty of the

subject, or swerved from their attachment to his Majesty, were as

follows–The King himself, ever stedfast in his own support

–Archbishop Laud, Earl of Strafford, Viscount Faulkland and Duke

of Ormond, who were scarcely less strenuous or zealous in the

cause. While the VILLIANS of the time would make too long a list

to be written or read; I shall therefore content myself with

mentioning the leaders of the Gang. Cromwell, Fairfax, Hampden,

and Pym may be considered as the original Causers of all the

disturbances, Distresses, and Civil Wars in which England for

many years was embroiled. In this reign as well as in that of

Elizabeth, I am obliged in spite of my attachment to the Scotch,

to consider them as equally guilty with the generality of the

English, since they dared to think differently from their

Sovereign, to forget the Adoration which as STUARTS it was their

Duty to pay them, to rebel against, dethrone and imprison the

unfortunate Mary; to oppose, to deceive, and to sell the no less

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