...designs, he was seized with an apoplectic plectic fit, and after languishing a few days, he expired in the fifty-fifth year of his age, and the twenty-fifth of his reign. Having always enjoyed a good constitution, his death begat the suspicion of poison; but there does...

...and, upon the whole, his character seems to manifest a total indifferency to religion. He died 1684, in the fifty-fifth year of his age, and the twenty-fifth of his reign. James II, his brother, succeeded to the throne, in spite of all the efforts made for his exclusion...

...Government. AD ? Charles the Second died of apoplexy— or, as some have 1685. J asserted, by poison — in the fifty-fifth year of his age, and the twenty-fifth of his reign. The great lines of his character are exhibited in a very unfavourable light, by his profligacy and...

...recovered from it hy hleeding, yet he Feh. 6, 1685.] languished only for a few days, and then expired, in the fifty-fifth year of his age, and the twenty-fifth of his reign. During his illness some clergymen of the church of England attended him, to whom he discovered a total...

...probable, he never did entertain,) he was seized with an apoplexy ; that, in a few days, carried him off, in the fifty-fifth year of his age, and the twenty-fifth of his reign. On his death-bed, he received the sacrament from a Roman Catholic clergyman. In 1671, an officer who...

...virtuous designs, he was seized with an apoplectic fit, and, after languishing a few days, expired in the fifty-fifth year of his age, and the twenty-fifth of his reign. Having always enjoyed a good constitution, his death begat suspicion of poison ; but when all circumstances...

...Oath was imposed in this reign, which excluded Papists from both Houses of Parliament. Charles died 1685, in the fifty-fifth year of his age, and the twenty-fifth of his reign. What was James the Second's character ? — -He encouraged Popery, and attempted to substitute that...

...reign, when he was seized with a sudden fit of illness, and after languishing a few days, expired, 1685, in the fifty-fifth year of his age, and the twenty-fifth of his reign. § In addition to what has already been said of the character of Charles, it may be observed, that...

...death interposed, and, as in many other cases, made good resolutions of no avail. He died of apoplexy, in the fifty-fifth year of his age and the twenty-fifth of his reign, regretted by those who had condemned his government ; for he was professedly a Protestant, and upheld...

...when he was seized with a sudden fit of illness, and after languishing a few days, expired. ll>85, m the fifty-fifth year of his age, and the twenty-fifth of his reign. § In addition to what lias already been said of the character of Charles, it may be observed, that...