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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

CHAPTER XX
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The hearse was followed by an endless train of splendid equipages from Lambeth through Southwark and over London Bridge.

Burnet preached the funeral sermon.
His kind and honest heart was overcome by so many tender recollections that, in the midst of his discourse, he paused and burst into tears, while a loud moan of sorrow rose from the whole auditory.

The Queen could not speak of her favourite instructor without weeping.

Even William was visibly moved.

"I have lost," he said, "the best friend that I ever had, and the best man that I ever knew." The only Englishman who is mentioned with tenderness in any part of the great mass of letters which the King wrote to Heinsius is Tillotson.


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