I. An Account of the CHANCELLOR'S
LIFE from his BIRTH to the
RESTORATION in 1660.

II. A Continuation of the fame, and of his
HISTORY of the GRAND REBELLION,
from the RESTORATION to his
BANISHMENT in 1667.

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

Printed from his ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS, given
to the UNIVERSITY of OXFORD by
the Heirs of the late EARL of
CLARENDON.

Ne quid Falfi dicere audeat, ne quid Veri non audeat. Ciceros

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PREFACE.

THE Reader can defire no better Recommendation

of the Hiftory now published, than to be affured that it is the genuine Work of the great Earl of Clarendon. The Work itself bears plain Characteristics of its Author. The fame Dignity of Sentiment, and Style, which diftinguishes THE HISTORY Of the Rebellion, and all other the Works of this noble Writer, breathes through the whole of this Performance.

THE Reafon, why this History has lain fo long concealed, will appear from the * Title of it, which fhows that his Lordship intended it only for the Information of his Children, But the late Lord Hyde, judging that fo faithful and authentic an Account of this interefting Period of our Hiflory would be an ufeful and acceptable Prefent to the Public, and bearing a grateful Remembrance of this Place of his Education, left by his Will this, and the other Remains af his Great Grandfather, in the Hands of Trustees, to be printed at our Prefs, and directed that the Profits arifing from the Sale fhould be employed towards the establishing a Riding-School in the