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Excerpt from A Vindication of King Charles, or a Loyal Subjects Duty: Manifested in Vindicating His Soveraigne From Those Aspersions Cast Upon Him by Certaine Persons, in a Scandalous Libel, Entituled, the King's Cabinet Opened This my publickly own my name unto them. With my (elf, that by concealing (in a fort) to be afh'a'med of that 0 maintain, and of following my Hypocrites, and in fieret he had fpoke nothing, that is, He was no backlbitermo whifpegrer again'fetetlhy in private corners. He fpake openly againfl mens doings, and was never afhamed to acknow ledge his ovm Boettines: And he hath (aid too, that I cannot he hit Difeiple, that is, approved indeed, unleffe I fol/bio him, vi{: in his very way, doing his work after his very manner; though I meet with his Crofl e in the doing of it, which alfo I mufi take up chearfull' 'after his ex-fl wk, be it with the loffe of my life it (c e; He loft his ore me. Confidere'd that my Book 1t 6 the Reader. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Notions of religious conformity in England were redefined during the mid-seventeenth century; for many it was as though the previous century's reformation was being reversed. Lane considers how a select group of churchmen – the Laudians – reshaped the meaning of church conformity during a period of religious and political turmoil.