 | William Fordyce Mavor - World history - 1803 - 498 pages
...and virtuous designs, he was seized with an apoplectic plectic fit, and after languishing a few days, he expired in the fifty-fifth year of his age, and the twenty-fifth of his reign. Having always enjoyed a good constitution, his death begat the suspicion of poison; but there does... | |
 | John Bigland, Jedidiah Morse - Geography - 1812 - 470 pages
...and, upon the whole, his character seems to manifest a total indifferency to religion. He died 1684, in the fifty-fifth year of his age, and the twenty-fifth of his reign. James II, his brother, succeeded to the throne, in spite of all the efforts made for his exclusion... | |
 | Daniel Macintosh - 1821 - 408 pages
...Government. AD ? Charles the Second died of apoplexy— or, as some have 1685. J asserted, by poison — in the fifty-fifth year of his age, and the twenty-fifth of his reign. The great lines of his character are exhibited in a very unfavourable light, by his profligacy and... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Great Britain - 1825 - 780 pages
...he was recovered from it hy hleeding, yet he Feh. 6, 1685.] languished only for a few days, and then expired, in the fifty-fifth year of his age, and the twenty-fifth of his reign. During his illness some clergymen of the church of England attended him, to whom he discovered a total... | |
 | William Grimshaw - Great Britain - 1826 - 318 pages
...probable, he never did entertain,) he was seized with an apoplexy ; that, in a few days, carried him off, in the fifty-fifth year of his age, and the twenty-fifth of his reign. On his death-bed, he received the sacrament from a Roman Catholic clergyman. In 1671, an officer who... | |
 | David Hume, John Robinson - Great Britain - 1827 - 568 pages
...wise and virtuous designs, he was seized with an apoplectic fit, and, after languishing a few days, expired in the fifty-fifth year of his age, and the twenty-fifth of his reign. Having always enjoyed a good constitution, his death begat suspicion of poison ; but when all circumstances... | |
 | Joseph Guy - General education - 1829 - 392 pages
...was imposed in this reign, which excluded Papists from both Houses of Parliament. Charles died 1685, in the fifty-fifth year of his age, and the twenty-fifth of his reign. What was James the Second's character ? — -He encouraged Popery, and attempted to substitute that... | |
 | Mrs. Markham - Great Britain - 1829 - 474 pages
...indulgence he was attacked by an apoplexy, and died, after a few days1 illness, February 6th, 1685, in the fifty-fifth year of his age, and the twenty-fifth of his reign. He married Catherine of Braganza, daughter of the king of Portugal, by whom he had no children. CONVERSATION... | |
 | Royal Robbins - 1831 - 750 pages
...reign, when he was seized with a sudden fit of illness, and after languishing a few days, expired, 1685, in the fifty-fifth year of his age, and the twenty-fifth of his reign. § In addition to what has already been said of the character of Charles, it may be observed, that... | |
 | Great Britain - 1832 - 360 pages
...death interposed, and, as in many other cases, made good resolutions of no avail. He died of apoplexy, in the fifty-fifth year of his age and the twenty-fifth of his reign, regretted by those who had condemned his government ; for he was professedly a Protestant, and upheld... | |
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He died in the fifty-fifth year of his age, and the twenty-fifth of his reign. 
