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Copy of a letter : Montpellier, to the Duchess of York, 1671 April 3.

BIB_ID
130448
Accession number
MA 9358
Creator
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674.
Display Date
1671 April 3.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 30.5 x 18.7 cm
Notes
Removed from Royal House of Stuart, v. 2, p. 27.
Clarendon's daughter, Anne Hyde (1637-1671) married the Duke of York, later King James II. The Duchess died March 31, 1671, three days before the date of Clarendon's letter of April 3, 1671 from Montpellier.
Clarendon also wrote to the Duke of York asking him to intervene on his daughter's decision. See MA 9357 for a description of a copy of that letter.
Docketed.
Summary
Discussing, at length and in detail, his objections to her possible conversion to Catholicism; giving his reasons for her to stay in the Church of England; adding "It is to me the saddest circumstance of my Banishment that I may not be admitted in such a Season as this to conferr with you, when I am confident I could satisfy you in all your doubts, and make it appeare to you, that there are many absurdities in the Roman Religion inconsistent with your conscience so that before you can submitt to the obligation of that faith, you must divest your Self of your naturall reason, and common Sence, and captivate the dictates of your own conscience to the impositions of an authority which hath not any pretence to oblige or advise you. If you will not with freedome communicate the doubts which occur to you, to those neere you, of whose learning & piety you have had much experience, let me conjure you to impart them to me, and to expect my answere before you suffer them to prevaile over you."