the fake of pleafing or difpleafing any fect or party in church or ftate; but wholly intended to Serve the caufe of liberty and truth. H: profelles himself inviolably attached to the civil and religious liberties of mankind; and therefore hopes the reader will indulge him in that warmth of his refentment, that honeft indignation, that is naturally raised by every inftance of perfecution, tyranny, and oppreffion; provided he has not any where expreffed himself in a. manner unworthy of the character of a gentle-· man or a chriftian. For the reft it is hoped that the curious will find fome entertainment, if not information, in this account; and that they will pardon the faults and imperfections of it, for the fake of its general tendency and defign. One thing the judicious and impartial reader will, at least, not be displeased with, viz. that as the authorities here quoted are the most authentic in themselves, fo the manner of quoting them is the most unexceptionable and juft,that is, in the very words, letters and points of the reSpective author, by which the reader may be infallibly certain that their fenfe is rightly reprefented. THE THE CONTENTS. AMES's birth, the murder of Rixio, JA He regains his liberty, and returns to his old courfes. An account of the confpiracy of the Queen Elizabeth's diffimulation, the unjust pu- nifhment of fecretary Davidfon. Reflec- James in the power of Elizabeth, and her minifters. His negotiations at Rome, and James obedient to Elizabeth; the reafons of James difregarded by the Scotch nobility. 22. A cenfure of their conduct. In what praise- The marriage of James with a daughter of Denmark. His ignorance in hiftory. A particular character of his queen. Cen- fure of our hiftorians. An account of James's paraphrafe on the re- velations. Rafhness of the undertaking. Cenfure of bishop Mountague. 35-37. Of James's damonologie. He permits perfons to be executed for witchcraft. Compli- mented on his afcending the English throne with an act against witchcraft. A caution to law-makers. Witchcraft difbelieved in The doctrine contained in his law of free mo- H An account of ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΟΝ ΔΩΡΟΝ. Strange He is admitted to the throne of England with- out any limitations or reftrictions. The ac- ceffion of a stranger king the proper time for a people to claim their just rights and privi- He gives himself up to eafe and pleasure. The infignificancy of princes of this temper. Drunkenness of James and his brother of Den- mark. Letter of the countess of Notting- Bitter imprecations uttered by him on himself, and on his pofterity. Rafbness, inconfide- rateness, and impiety of imprecations. 75. James gives himself airs of religion. Incon- fiftency of men's characters. James addicted to hunting. Obfervations on An account of the conference at Hampton court. James's behaviour at it. 83-87. Of the powder plot. Its reality afferted. The pope forbids the English catholics to take |