"thought it poffible that he could have been in want of a place to put his head in ?" Madame de Baviere, in her Letters, fays, "Charles the Firft's widow made a clandeftine marriage with her Chevalier d'Honneur, Lord "St. Alban's, who treated her extremely ill, fo "that whilst she had not a faggot to warm herself "with, he had in his apartment a good fire, and a "fumptuous table. He never gave the Queen a "kind word, and when she spoke to him, he used "to fay, Que me veut cette femme ?—What does "the woman fay ?" This Princess, according to Sir William Waller in his "Recollections," endeared herself to the inhabitants of Exeter by the following act of benevolence. "As she was walking out northward of "the city of Exeter, foon after her lying-in, the "stopped at the cottage of a poor woman, whom " she heard making doleful cries: she sent one of ❝her train to enquire what it might be which ❝ occafioned them. The page returned, and faid "the woman was forrowing grievously, because "her daughter had been two days in the strawe, "and was almoft dead for want of nourishment, she "having nothing to give her but water, and not "being able, for the hardness of the times, to get "any thing. On this the Queen took a small chain of gold from her neck, at which hung an "Agnus. She took off the Agnus, and put it in "her bofom; and making the woman be called to "her, gave her the chain, and bade her go into "the city to a goldfmith and fell it, and with the << money to provide for the good woman in the "ftrawe and for this," adds Sir William, "her "Confeffor did afterwards rebuke her, because "they were heretics. When this thing was told "to the King, he afked, jeftingly, if her Con"feffor had made the Queen do a penance for it, "as fhe had done once before, for fome innocent "act, when she was made to walk to Tyburn, "fome fay barefoot." CARDINAL DE BERULLE. THIS pious man died, as the late excellent Mr. Granger died, while he was celebrating the Sacrament. The Cardinal fell down dead upon the steps of the altar, at the moment of Confecration, as he was pronouncing the words "hanc igitur obla"tionem." This occafioned the following diftich: Capta fub extremis nequeo dum facra facerdos Perficere, at faltem victima perficiam. In vain the rev'rend Pontiff tries Himself within the holy walls The Heav'n-devoted victim falls. Cardinal] Cardinal Berulle came over with Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles the First, to England, as her Confeffor, to the Court of which he endeared himself by the fanctity of his morals, and the extreme propriety of his behaviour. Like the late learned and excellent Dr. Balguy, he poffeffed the nolo epifcopari in the extremeft purity of intention; for when his Sovereign Louis the Thirteenth of France preffed him to take the Bishopric of Leon, he refufed; and on that Monarch's telling him that he should employ the folicitation of a more powerful advocate than himself (meaning the Pope) to prevail upon him to accept of it, he said, "that if his Majesty continued "to prefs him, he should be obliged to quit his kingdom." He established the venerable Order of the Fathers of the Oratory in France, founded by San Philippo Neri, and was a man of such eminent goodness, that Pope Leo the XIth faid of him, when he faw him at Rome as a fimple friar, "Le Pere Berulle n'est pas un homme, c'est un "ange." Charles used to fay of himself, that he knew fo much of arts and manufactures in general, that he believed he could get his living by any of them, except weaving in tapestry. This unfortunate Monarch moft probably met with his very fevete fate in confequence of his duplicity. Cromwell declared that he could not tuft him. His fate is a ftriking inftance of the truth of the maxim of Menander, thus tranflated by Grotius: In re omni conducibile eft quovis tempore At every time, and upon all occafions, 'Tis right to fpeak the truth. And this I vouch In every various ftate of human life The greatest part of our fecurity. "been intercepted, and then forwarded to him; "wherein the reproached him for having made "thofe villains too great conceffions; (viz. "that Cromwell fhould be Lord-Lieutenant of "Ireland for life without account; that that king"dom should be in the hands of the party, with an army there kept which fhould know no "head but the Lieutenant; that Cromwell should ❝ have a garter, &c.) That in this letter of the "King's it was faid, that the fhould leave "him to manage, who was bette "all circumftances might be entire fions he 1 of he ef ould rwick, As in the ie fhewed," at in divinity, h as one day, hair when he Salisbury came « fuddenly |