D. Mignot. THE LIFE OF MRS. GODOLPHIN BY JOHN EVELYN OF WOOTTON ESQ. Now first published and Edited by SAMUEL Lord Bishop of OXFORD Chancellor of the Most Noble Order of the Garter NEW-YORK: D. APPLETON & COMPANY, 200 BROADWAY. PHILADELPHIA : GEO. S. APPLETON, 148 CHESNUT-ST. MDCCCXLVII. :.. To His Grace Ꭼ Ꭰ Ꮃ Ꭺ Ꭱ Ꭰ, Lord Archbishop of York, Lord High Almoner, &c. MY LORD ARCHBISHOP, Your Grace will, I trust, allow me to inscribe the following pages to you. Your unmerited kindness, shown to me on many other occasions, intrusted them to me for publication; and I well know that whilst your Grace has felt that the light of such an example as they exhibit ought not to be concealed, you rejoice to know that you have lived to see a British Court which in purity of morals and domestic virtue affords the most blessed contrast to those evil days through which Margaret Godolphin was enabled to live in the brightness of a godly purity, and to die in peace. I have the honour to be, Your Grace's obliged and affectionate S. OXON: Cuddesdon Palace, Feb. 1847. |