BIB_ID
130443
Accession number
MA 9357
Creator
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674.
Display Date
1671 Apr. 4 and [1674] June.
Description
2 items (3 pages ) ; 30.4 x 18.7 and 32.6 x 20.0 cm
Notes
From Royal House of Stuart, v. 2, p. 27,30.
Clarendon's daughter, Anne Hyde (1637-1671) became the Duchess of York on her marriage to the Duke of York, later King James II. The Duchess of York died 4 days before the date of this letter, on March 31, 1671. Clarendon was banished from England by King Charles II in December 1667 and would remain in France until his death in Rouen on December 9, 1674.
Docketed.
Clarendon's daughter, Anne Hyde (1637-1671) became the Duchess of York on her marriage to the Duke of York, later King James II. The Duchess of York died 4 days before the date of this letter, on March 31, 1671. Clarendon was banished from England by King Charles II in December 1667 and would remain in France until his death in Rouen on December 9, 1674.
Docketed.
Summary
Concerning the rumors of his daughter's conversion to Catholicism in the letter of April 4, 1671; asking for his help saying "I hope it may not misbecome me at what distance soever to cast my self at your feet, and to beseech you to looke to this matter in tyme, and to apply some Antidote to expell the poison of it;" adding "I have written to the Dutchess (see MA 9358) with the freedome and affection of a troubled and perplexed father, and I do most humbly beseech your Royal Highness by your authority to rescue her from bringing a mischiefe upon you and herself, that can never be repaired, and to think it worthy your wisdome to remove & expell these reproaches (how false so ever) by better evidence than contempt and I hope you do believe that no severity that I have or can undergo shall in any degree lessen or diminish my most profound duty to his Maj'tie or your Royall Highness; asking for his help with the King to intercede on his behalf in his desire to return to England in the letter dated from Moulins in June, 1674.
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