A copy of a letter from Sir Th. Herbert to Dr. Samways, and by him sent to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Sandcroft, : referr'd to in page 524, line 73, of vol. II. of Athenæ Oxonienses, edit. 1692, and in page 701, line 39, of the same vol. edit. 1721, found in a copy of that book, lately in the hands of the Lord Viscount Preston..
Hebert, Thomas,Sir,1606-1682.
Samways, Peter,1615-1693.
Sancroft, William,1617-1693.
Preston, Charles Graham,Viscount,1706-1739.
Rawlinson, Richard,1690-1755.
[London? : s.n.,
between 1721 and 1739?]
About Herbert's attendance on King Charles I the night before the king's execution.
Dated and signed at end (the square brackets are printed): Y[ork] 28. Aug. 80. Tho. Herbert.
The Preston title lapsed with the death of the third viscount, 1739.
This letter is reprinted in the 1813 edition of Wood's Athenae Oxonienses, vol. 4 columns 32-33, with a note "Printed on one side of a sheet of paper by Dr. [Richard] Rawlinson, for presents to his friends."
ESTC
Crawford, J.L.L. Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Catalogue of English broadsides,
Charles, I, King of England, 1600-1649
England London.