Letters of Lady Rachel Russell: From the Manuscript in the Library at Woburn Abbey : to which are Prefixed, an Introduction, Vindicating the Character of Lord Russell Against Sir John Dalrymple, &c. : and the Trial of Lord William Russell for High Treason, Extracted from the State Trials

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J. MʻCreery, 1809 - 351 pages

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Contents

Lady Russell to the King Charles II
9
Doctor Fitzwilliam to Lady Russell
12
Doctor Burnet to Lady Russell
16
Lady Russell to Dr Fitzwilliam
19
The same to the same
22
The same to the same
25
Doctor Fitzwilliam to Lady Russell
28
Doctor Simon Patrick to Lady Russell
33
Lady Russell to Dr Fitzwilliam
37
The same to the same
42
Doctor Fitzwilliam to Lady Russell
44
Lady Russell to Dr Fitzwilliam
48
The same to the same
52
The same to the same
54
The same to the same
56
The same to the same
58
The same to the same
59
The same to the same
62
The same to the same
67
The same to the same
73
Doctor Fitzwilliam to Lady Russell
74
Lady Russell to Dr Fitzwilliam
77
The same to the same
81
Doctor Tillotson to Lady Russell
83
Lady Russell to Dr Fitzwilliam
85
The same to the same
88
The same to the same
91
The same to the same
93
The same to the same
94
The same to the same
96
LETTER Page 36 Lady Russell to Dr Fitzwilliam
101
The same to the same
103
Doctor Fitzwilliam to Lady Russell
107
Lady Russell to Dr Fitzwilliam
109
The same to the same
110
The same to the same
113
The same to the same
115
The same to the same
118
The same to the same
120
The same to the same
125
The same to the same
127
The same to the same
129
The same to the same
130
The Princess of Orange to Lady Russell
132
Lady Russell to Dr Fitzwilliam
134
The same to the same
136
The same to the same
138
The same to the same
143
The same to the same
144
The Princess of Orange to Lady Russell
148
Lady Russell to Dr Fitzwilliam
150
The same to the same
152
The same to the same ibid 59 The same to the same
155
The same to the same
156
The same to the same
157
The Princess of Orange to Lady Russell
158
Lady Russell to Dr Fitzwilliam
159
The same to the same
161
The same to the same
163
The same to the same
165
Lady Russell to Lady Alington
168
Dr Tillotson to Lady Russell
169
Lady Russell to Lord Cavendish
173
Lady Russell to Dr Fitzwilliam
174
The same to the same
175
Lady Russell to Lord Cavendish
177
Lady Russell to Dr Fitzwilliam
179
Lady Russell to Lady Alington
180
Lady Russell to Dr Fitzwilliam
181
Lady Russell to the Earl of Strafford
183
Lady Russell to Lady Clinton
184
Lady Russell to Dr Fitzwilliam
185
Lady Russell to Sir H Pollexfen Attorney General
198
Lady Russell to Lady Essex
201
Lady Russell to
203
Lady Russell to the Earl of Strafford
204
Lady Russell to Lord
206
Lady Russell to Dr Fitzwilliam
207
Lady Russell to the Earl of Strafford
209
The same to the same
210
Lady Russell to Dr Fitzwilliam
211
The same to the same
214
The same to the same
215
Doctor Fitzwilliam to Lady Russell
216
Lady Russell to
224
The Bishop of Salisbury to Lady Russell
225
Lady Russell to Dr Fitzwilliam
229
The same to the same
231
The same to the same
232
Dean Tillotson to Lady Russell
237
Lady Russell to the Dean of St Pauls
244
Dean Tillotson to Lady Russell
247
Lady Mountague to the same
251
Lady Russell to Lady Sunderland
252
Lady Russell to Dr Fitzwilliam
253
Dean Tillotson to Lady Russell
255
Lady Russell to the Dean of St Pauls
258
Dean Tillotson to Lady Russell
261
Lady Russell to Lady Ranelagh
267
The same to Lord Devonshire
269
The same to Madam Rouvigny
270
The same to Dr Fitzwilliam
271
Lady Russell to supposed the Bishop of Salisbury
273
The same to Lord Cavendish
275
The same to Dr Fitzwilliam
276
Archbishop Tillotson to Lady Russell
280
Lady Russell to supposed Archbishop Tillotson
282
The same to Queen Mary
284
Queen Mary to Lady Russell
285
Lady Russell to Lady supposed Alington
287
The same to the same
289
The same to
290
The same to Mr Owen
291
The same to Queen Mary
293
The same to Lady Darby
295
LETTER Page 130 Lady Russell to Dr Fitzwilliam
296
The same to the same
297
The same to the same
299
The same to Lady Russell
301
The same to Lady Sunderland
302
The same to Dr Fitzwilliaın
304
Queen Mary to Lady Russell
307
Lady Russell to Dr Fitzwilliam
308
Lady Rutland to Lady Russell
309
Lady Russell to Dr Fitzwilliam
310
Sir James Forbes to Lady Russell
312
Archbishop Tillotson to the same
314
Lady Russell to Dr Fitzwilliam
315
Archbishop Tillotson to Lady Russell
317
Lady Russell to Dr Fitzwilliam
320
The same to the same
322
The Bishop of Salisbury to Lady Russell
323
Lady Russell to Sir Robert Worsley
325
The same to King William
328
The same to Rouvigny Earl of Galway
330
The same to the same
331
The same to the same
334
The same to the same
338
The same to the same
339
The same to the same
341
Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry to Lady Russell
343
Lady Russell to the Earl of Galway
346
The same to the same
347
The same to the same
348

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Page lxxxi - Queen, or of their eldest son and heir; or if a man do violate the King's companion, or the King's eldest daughter unmarried, or the wife of the King's eldest son and heir; or if a man do levy war against our lord the King in his realm, or be adherent to the King's enemies in his realm, giving to them aid and comfort in the realm, or elsewhere, and thereof be provably attainted of open deed by the people of their condition.
Page 100 - I can say, unless thy law had been my delight, I should have perished in my trouble. The rising from the dead is a glorious contemplation, doctor ! nothing raises a drooping spirit like it...
Page lxxxi - ... if a man do violate the king's companion, or the king's eldest daughter unmarried ; or the wife of the king's eldest son and heir...
Page 26 - I look not at the things which are seen, but at those which are not seen, expecting that day which will settle and compose all my tumultuous thoughts in perpetual peace and quiet — but am undone, irrecoverably so, as to my temporal longings and concerns.
Page cix - That you, and each of you, shall be taken from the bar, and conveyed to the place from whence you came, and from thence be drawn...
Page 16 - Being appointed to preach the sermon on the Gunpowder Plot, (1684,) at the Rolls Chapel, I took for my text, ' Save me from the lion's mouth ; thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorn.
Page 218 - And be it hereby declared, that by the undoubted and fundamental laws of this kingdom, neither the Peers of this realm, nor the Commons, nor both together in Parliament or out of Parliament, nor the People collectively or representatively, nor any other Persons whatsoever, ever had, have, hath, or ought to have, any coercive power over the persons of the Kings of this realm.
Page lxxx - Item, whereas divers opinions have been before this time in what case treason shall be said, and in what not; the King, at the request of the lords and of the commons, hath made a declaration in the manner as hereafter followeth, that is to say...
Page 9 - I have writ nothing in this that will displease Your Majesty. If I have, I humbly beg of you to consider it as coming from a woman amazed with grief; and that you will pardon the daughter of a person who served Your Majesty's father in his greatest extremities, [and Your Majesty...
Page cxi - The spectators, at these words, turned their eyes, and beheld the daughter of the virtuous Southampton rising up to assist her lord in this his utmost distress: a thrill of anguish ran through the assembly. After his condemnation, she threw herself at the king's feet, and pleaded, but alas!

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