Reference code
DWL/RB/iv.84
Level of description
item
Title
Two papers by Charles II
Date
1686
Extent and Medium
Extent:ff 204-207 (f 207v is blank). Other pagination 1-7. 200 x 155 mm.
Scope and content
Copies of two papers by King Charles II. The first arguing arguing a single church being the Roman Catholic. ‘The second paper’, strongly reprobating the Reformation in England. These papers are ‘universally supposed to have been given to him, as a compedius excuse for his embracing doctrines, which he was too idle to examine, too thoughtless to remember, and too sensible to have believed on reflection.’ (Walpole’s Royal Noble Authors of England, Edinburgh 1792, I, 50). Black records this treatise as written by the amanuensis of Roger Morrice. ff 204-5r: ‘The first Paper.’ ff 205v-207r: ‘The Second Paper.’
Finding aids
Argent / Black iv.84; Thomas p.22
Publication note
Horatio (Horace) Walpole (1717-97) first published 'A catalogue of the royal and noble authors of England, with lists of their works in April 1758'. Subsequent editions were enlarged.
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