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as a connivance at heresy, James most impru- dently instituted ' a popish colleffe in the abbey of Holyrood,' and published rules for it on the 22nd of March, 1688, inviting children to be there educated gratis.
" He also appointed one Watson,* a popish printer, who had availed himself of the protec- tion of the sanctuary, to be the ling's printer in Holyrood-house. This Watson also obtained a right from the privy council to print all the PrognotticatioTU at Edinburgh ; which accounts for several books bearing in their title-pages to have been printed in H My rood-house."
Dr. Lee, in his Memorial, states that he was acquainted with several books printed here in 1687 and 1688, many of them being popish works, allowed to be printed and dispersed by king James II. Again, in the year 1775, there was a press in this palace, when a tract by James Fea, a surgeon, entitled die Present State of the Orkney Itlandi comidered, (8vo. pp. 66,) was published, bearing the imprint Holyrood-house.
1687, Feb. 10. A proclamation for preventing and suppressing unlicensed books and pamphlets.
1687, March 25. In order to retain the lower class of people in the Protestant religion, cha- rity schools were set up in and about London ; the first were opened at Norton Falgate, and St. Margraret's, Westmin^r.
1687, Sept. 1. Died, Dr. Henry More, the Platonist, and a celebrated divine, whose works were once read with great enthusiasm by the people. Time, however, has long cast into the shade the visionary papers of Henry More, and he seems himself to have survived that fame which he had once promised to himself. His philosophical and theological works have been collected into two volumes folio. The following is a curious fact relating to his writings : — A gentleman who had died beyond sea, left a legacy of j£300 for the translation of Dr. More's works. The task was cheerfully undertaken by the doctor himself; but when he had finished it, he was compelled to give the bookseller the jG300 to print tliem. He was born at Grantham, Lincolnshire, October 12, 1614.
1687. William Hammond, of Skipton in Craven, Yorkshire, gave £10 to the poor of the stationers' company.
1687, Oct. 21. bied. Edmund Waller, a poet of some celebrity, whose writings partake of the gay and conceited manner of Charles I. and chiefly consist in complimentary verses, of an amatory character, many of which are dedicated to a lady whom he addressed under the name of Sachari»»a.\ In his latter years. Waller wrote in a more formal manner which had by that time been introduced. He was born at Colshill, in Buckinghamshire, March 3, 1605, and was educated at Cambridge. At the age of eighteen he became a member of parliament, and in 1643, was sent to the tower on the charge of conspiring
- Father of J. Wstson, queen's printer in the teign of
queen Anne.
t The Sacbarisaa of Waller's muse was Dorothy Sidney, ■Iterwanls counteas of Sunderland. She died in ifiya.
to deliver the city to the king. Two pentn were executed for the plot, and Waller was «•■ demned to be hanged, but saved himself bj a abject submission, and a liberal dislributirai i money. After a year's imprisonment be vol into exile ; but returned by favour of CromseS, on whom be wrote an elegant panegyric. He also wrote another on the death of the proteda; and afterwards celebrated the restoration, tsi praised Charles II. He was elected to serve it parliament, where, by bis eloquence and wit, k was the delight of the bouse. He endeavoonJ to procure the provostship of Eton, but being le- fused by the earl of Clarendon,* be joined in lb persecution of that great man.
1687, Feb. 21. Publick Occttrrencet tni; ttated; with Allowance. By Henry Case. Na I. Printed by George Larkin, at the Two Swaas, without Aldersgate.
1687. News from Panrner-olUy , or a tra* relation of some pranks the Devil hath latd; played with a plaster pot there. 4to.
1688, Aug. 31. John Bunyan author of dit Pilgrim^s Progreu, Holy War, Grace aboiatii*} to the Chief of Sinners, and other works. He was bora at Elstow, near Bedford, in 1628, mi was brought up to his father's business, whick was that of a travelling tinker. For some time he led a very profligate kind of life ; but by de- grees he acquired a sense of religion, and tbr ability to read and write, and by study he taaa acquired a great knowledge of the scriptnis. In the civil war he entered into the parliamentiij army, and was present at the seige of Leicester. In 1655 he became a member of a Baptist ooo- gregation at Bedford, in which he used to exhoit. For this, at the restoration, he was taken up, sad confined in Bedford jailf upwards of twelve yeiB, supporting himself and family by tagging laces. There also he wrote his Pilgrim's Progresi, whiei has gone through innumerable editions, and been translated into most European languages. Its object is to give an allegorical account of die life of a Christian, his difficulties, temptations, and ultimate triumph. On his release from
- Edward Hyde, earl of Clareniton, waa born at Pit.
ton, )609, and was lord chanceUor of England from 16M to IM7, when, having lost the royal favour, he retired to France, and passed the last six years of his lifle in tsik, where lie finished that splendid monninent of Us ceaias and impartiality, the History of the Rebellion, {for sodi was the epithet bestowed by the royalist* on thecivilvtr .' It was not published till the reign of qoeen Anne, ia >>i volumes. His Etxaps belong to the language, they eipfw the oian, showing his unfitnesa for a station, wboe ia- tegrity and decency caught no reflection from the coon. He died December g, 1074, and was buried in Weatmioate^ abbey. In Iflfio, James, dulte of Yoric, afterwards king oi England, married Anne, eldest daughter of lord ClsnO' don. She was the mother of our two queens. Nary uA Anne.
t In March, 1814, the library of Mr. Palmer, of Huk- ney, was sold by Mr. Munn. In this collection were iom« curious and valuable pieces of the old Puritan diviaes; but the cUef article of attraction was the lot No. Ill, > copy of BUI and Barlcer's 4to. bible, in morocco, sad ia excellent preservation. It was the Identical pulpit biUe of John Banyan, and also his companion dnrinrbis t«tlr* yean' niOustifialile confinement in Bedford JaS, where bi wrote his memorable Pilgrim' t Pngrett. This UUcm purchased for Mr. Wbitbread, H.P., for Bedford, at tb< price of .^1.
