Sedbergh Garsdale and Dent - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892. Excerpt: ... and not without risk, Otway gained permission from the regicide Bradshaw to visit the sick man, expecting to find him in the last stage of emaciation and despair. Imagine his astonishment on discovering that, so far from killing John Barwick outright, prison fare had improved his health, and made him quite cheerful. At last a favourable conjuncture encouraged his friends to make application for his release, and after two years and four months of close confinement, he was liberated on condition that he should come up for trial when called upon to do so. Happily, that time never arrived; for, greatly owing to the urgency of Barwick and Otway, and Otway's relations, the colonels, General Monk led his troops from Scotland, and after a little mysterious finessing, gave the Parliament unmistakable notice to quit, and recalled the exiled Prince to his throne. John Barwick saw the end he had striven and longed for, and had his share in the general rejoicing. He was chosen Prolocutor of the Lower House of Convocation, and was a member of the Savoy Conference (1661), in which Episcopalians and Presbyterians met in solemn conclave to discuss differences of opinion as to matters of religion and ritual, in the hope, on the part of the latter, of bringing about a kind of "Scotch mixture," which, however, was declined by the church party, apparently without thanks. Berwick received a deanery, and might have been a bishop if he had cared for preferment. A more disinterested, devoted, and high-souled man, it would be hard to mention. He left many bequests, to his native place in especial, but to us, the most touching of all are 40 to his old School, at Sedbergh, and "the immortal writings of the King's Father, bound in two volumes, as no improper pledge of his love and gr...
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- ISBN 10 5880046176
- ISBN 13 9785880046171
- BindingPaperback
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