Though this King had some faults, among which & as the most principal, was hisallowing his Mother's death, yet considered on the whole I cannot help liking him. He married Anne of Denmark, and hadseveral Children; fortunately for him his eldest son Prince Henry died before his father or he might have experienced the evils whichbefell his unfortunate Brother.

As I am myself partial to the ro--mancatholic religion, it is with infi:-nite regret that I am obliged to blame theBehaviour of any Member of it; yet Truthbeing I think very excusable in an Historian,I am neceſsitated to say that in this reignthe roman Catholics of England did not