THE

CONTINUATION

Of the LIFE of

EDWARD Earl of CLARENDON,

LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND,

AND

CHANCELLOR of the UNIVERSITY of OXFORD.

Being a CONTINUATION of

His HISTORY of the GRAND REBELLION, from the RESTORATION to his BANISHMENT in 1667.

WRITTEN BY HIMSEL F.

Printed from his ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS, given to the UNIVERSITY of OXFORD by the Heirs of the late EARL of

CLARENDON.

Ne quid Falfi dicere audeat, ne quid Veri non audeat. Cicero.

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THE

PREFACE.

T

HE Reader can defire no better Recommendation of the History now published, than to be affured that it is the genuine Work of the great Earl of Clarendon. The Work itself bears plain Characteristicks of its Author. The Same Dignity of Sentiment, and Style, which dif tinguishes THE HISTORY OF THE REBELLION, and all other the Works of this noble Writer, breathes through the whole of this Performance.

THE Reafon, why this Hiftory has lain fo long concealed, will appear from the * Title of it, which fhews that his Lordship intended it only for the Information of his Children. But the late Lord Hyde, judging that fo faithful and authentick an Account of this interefting Period of our Hiftory would be an ufeful and acceptable Prefent to the Publick, and bearing a grateful Remembrance of this Place of his Education, left by his Will this, and the other Remains of his Great Grandfather, in the Hands of Trustees, to be printed at our Prefs, and directed that the Profits arifing from the Sale should be employed towards the establishing a Riding-School in the University.

* See Continuation, Page 1.

But Lord Hyde dying before his Father, the then Earl of Clarendon, the Property of thefe Papers never became vested in him, and confequently this Bequest was void. However, the noble Heirelles of the Earl of Clarendon, out of their Regard to the Publick, and to this Seat of Learning, have been pleafed to fulfill the kind Intentions of Lord Hyde, and adopt a Scheme recommended both by bim, and his Great Grandfather. To this End They have fent to the Univerfity this Hiftory to be printed at our Prefs, on Condition that the Profits arifing from the Publication or Sale of this Work be applied, as a Beginning for a Fund for fupporting a Manage, or Academy for Riding, and other useful Exercifes, in Oxford.

THE Work bere offered to the Publick confifts of two Parts. The Second, which is the most important and interefting Part of the Work, is THE HISTORY OF THE EARL OF CLARENDON'S LIFE FROM THE YEAR 1660 TO 1667, from the Reftoration to the Time of bis Banishment, and includes in it the most memorable Tranfactions of thofe Times. It may be therefore confidered in two Views. It is a Second Part of LORD CLARENDON'S LIFE: And is also a Continuation of his former Hiftory, entitled THE HISTORY OF THE REBELLION, from the Year 1660, where that ends, to the Year 1667. This is carefully printed, without any material Variations, from a Manufcript all of Lord Clarendon's own Hand-writing, excepting fome few Pages in the Hand of his Amanuenfis, which are only TranSee his Dialogue on Education, Page 325, &c.

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