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Title: The roll-call of Westminster Abbey
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Smith, A. Murray, Mrs
Subjects: Westminster Abbey
Publisher: London : Smith, Elder, & Co.
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e partin the civil wars both as a soldier and an envoy, and wasknighted by Charles I. at Oxford. When the royal causewas hopelessly lost, Moray went back to France, and after-wards stood by his new sovereign, Charles II., both on theContinent and in Scotland. His researches in naturalphilosophy and chemistry were not neglected, however, andfrom the Restoration he took his place amongst the mosthonoured men at the English court, carrying on his experi-ments in his pavilion at Whitehall, where he died. Burnetcalls him the wisest and worthiest man of the age, andspeaks of his knowledge of Nature as unsurpassed ; he wasbesides a delightful companion, and even such differentpersons as Evelyn and Pepys unite in praising him. Of the poets, the men of letters, the actors and actresseswho flourished during the seventeenth century, there is muchyet to say, and we shall treat of them in future chapters. Itis time now to turn to the heroes who helped to build upthe bulwarks of Englands greatness.
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THE WAX EFFIGY OF CHARLES II CHAPTER XIV NAVAL AND MILITARY HEROES THE burial of Prince Rupert has been already chron-icled, and the mesalliance of his royal cousin, the Dukeof York, with a maid of honour alluded to. Thenaval record of both these Princes is closely connected withthat of a commander superior far to his nominal chiefs, a manwho could boast that he had begun his career under the flagof the immortal Blake. General Monck had faithfullyserved the Commonwealth on sea and land for many a longyear, while Rupert was fighting for the King, but after theRestoration the two former enemies were associated in a com-mon cause—the defence of their native shores against theDutch fleets. Monck had never wavered in his allegiance toCromwell, but when the weakness of the Protectors son, andthe perpetual quarrels between the army and the Parliamentmade a dictatorship like Olivers, or a republican form ofgovernment impossible, the general determined to do all thatin him lay towards the re

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