PART II

THE PRINCE

“I challenge all our histories to produce a Prince in all respects his equal; I call the differing humours, interests and religions of the world to witness whether they ever found a man to centre in, like him.…

“He might have raised his seat upon his native country’s liberty, his very enemies would have supported him in those pretences; but he affected no honours but what were freely offered him, there or elsewhere.…

“And his ambition, that was only useful, knew how to wear, as well as how to deserve them.”--WILLIAM FLEETWOOD, Bishop of St. Asaph, _Sermon_.