HVite -A -D -T 1 -l * -a -b SENT-END -m -C wav_config -H macros -H hmmdefs -m -t 250.0 150.0 1000.0 -I words.mlf -i aligned.out -S train.scp dict tiedlist HTK Configuration Parameters[11] Module/Tool Parameter Value # NUMCEPS 12 # CEPLIFTER 22 # NUMCHANS 26 # PREEMCOEF 0.970000 # USEHAMMING TRUE # WINDOWSIZE 250000.000000 # SAVEWITHCRC TRUE # SAVECOMPRESSED TRUE # TARGETRATE 100000.000000 # TARGETKIND MFCC_D_N_Z_0 # SOURCEFORMAT WAV Read 4613 physical / 6155 logical HMMs Label file will be used to align each file Aligning File: hoe-temp.wav Created lattice with 2456 nodes / 2455 arcs from label file SENT-END THIS IS A LIBRIVOX RECORDING ALL LIBRIVOX RECORDINGS ARE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO FIND OUT HOW YOU CAN VOLUNTEER PLEASE VISIT LIBRIVOX DOT ORG HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES THE SECOND BY THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY BOOK ONE CHAPTER FOUR PART ONE THE DEATH OF KING CHARLES THE SECOND TOOK THE NATION BY SURPRISE HIS FRAME WAS NATURALLY STRONG AND DID NOT APPEAR TO HAVE SUFFERED FROM EXCESS HE HAD ALWAYS BEEN MINDFUL OF HIS HEALTH EVEN IN HIS PLEASURES AND HIS HABITS WERE SUCH AS PROMISE A LONG LIFE AND A ROBUST OLD AGE INDOLENT AS HE WAS ON ALL OCCASIONS WHICH REQUIRED TENSION OF THE MIND HE WAS ACTIVE AND PERSEVERING IN BODILY EXERCISE HE HAD WHEN YOUNG BEEN RENOWNED AS A TENNIS PLAYER AND WAS EVEN IN THE DECLINE OF LIFE AN INDEFATIGABLE WALKER HIS ORDINARY PACE WAS SUCH THAT THOSE WHO WERE ADMITTED TO THE HONOUR OF HIS SOCIETY FOUND IT DIFFICULT TO KEEP UP WITH HIM HE ROSE EARLY AND GENERALLY PASSED THREE OR FOUR HOURS A DAY IN THE OPEN AIR HE MIGHT BE SEEN BEFORE THE DEW WAS OFF THE GRASS IN ST JAMES'S PARK STRIDING AMONG THE TREES PLAYING WITH HIS SPANIELS AND FLINGING CORN TO HIS DUCKS AND THESE EXHIBITIONS ENDEARED HIM TO THE COMMON PEOPLE WHO ALWAYS LOVE TO SEE THE GREAT UNBEND AT LENGTH TOWARDS THE CLOSE OF THE YEAR SIXTEEN EIGHTY FOUR HE WAS PREVENTED BY A SLIGHT ATTACK OF WHAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE GOUT FROM RAMBLING AS USUAL HE NOW SPENT HIS MORNINGS IN HIS LABORATORY WHERE HE AMUSED HIMSELF WITH EXPERIMENTS ON THE PROPERTIES OF MERCURY HIS TEMPER SEEMED TO HAVE SUFFERED FROM CONFINEMENT HE HAD NO APPARENT CAUSE FOR DISQUIET HIS KINGDOM WAS TRANQUIL HE WAS NOT IN PRESSING WANT OF MONEY HIS POWER WAS GREATER THAN IT HAD EVER BEEN THE PARTY WHICH HAD LONG THWARTED HIM HAD BEEN BEATEN DOWN BUT THE CHEERFULNESS WHICH HAD SUPPORTED HIM AGAINST ADVERSE FORTUNE HAD VANISHED IN THIS SEASON OF PROSPERITY A TRIFLE NOW SUFFICED TO DEPRESS THOSE ELASTIC SPIRITS WHICH HAD BORNE UP AGAINST DEFEAT EXILE AND PENURY HIS IRRITATION FREQUENTLY SHOWED ITSELF BY LOOKS AND WORDS SUCH AS COULD HARDLY HAVE BEEN EXPECTED FROM A MAN SO EMINENTLY DISTINGUISHED BY GOOD HUMOUR AND GOOD BREEDING IT WAS NOT SUPPOSED HOWEVER THAT HIS CONSTITUTION WAS SERIOUSLY IMPAIRED HIS PALACE HAD SELDOM PRESENTED A GAYER OR A MORE SCANDALOUS APPEARANCE THAN ON THE EVENING OF SUNDAY THE FIRST OF FEBRUARY SIXTEEN EIGHTY FIVE SOME GRAVE PERSONS WHO HAD GONE THITHER AFTER THE FASHION OF THAT AGE TO PAY THEIR DUTY TO THEIR SOVEREIGN AND WHO HAD EXPECTED THAT ON SUCH A DAY HIS COURT WOULD WEAR A DECENT ASPECT WERE STRUCK WITH ASTONISHMENT AND HORROR THE GREAT GALLERY OF WHITEHALL AN ADMIRABLE RELIC OF THE MAGNIFICENCE OF THE TUDORS WAS CROWDED WITH REVELLERS AND GAMBLERS THE KING SATE THERE CHATTING AND TOYING WITH THREE WOMEN WHOSE CHARMS WERE THE BOAST AND WHOSE VICES WERE THE DISGRACE OF THREE NATIONS BARBARA PALMER DUCHESS OF CLEVELAND WAS THERE NO LONGER YOUNG BUT STILL RETAINING SOME TRACES OF THAT SUPERB AND VOLUPTUOUS LOVELINESS WHICH TWENTY YEARS BEFORE OVERCAME THE HEARTS OF ALL MEN THERE TOO WAS THE DUCHESS OF PORTSMOUTH WHOSE SOFT AND INFANTINE FEATURES WERE LIGHTED UP WITH THE VIVACITY OF FRANCE HORTENSIA MANCINI DUCHESS OF MAZARIN AND NIECE OF THE GREAT CARDINAL COMPLETED THE GROUP SHE HAD BEEN EARLY REMOVED FROM HER NATIVE ITALY TO THE COURT WHERE HER UNCLE WAS SUPREME HIS POWER AND HER OWN ATTRACTIONS HAD DRAWN A CROWD OF ILLUSTRIOUS SUITORS ROUND HER CHARLES HIMSELF DURING HIS EXILE HAD SOUGHT HER HAND IN VAIN NO GIFT OF NATURE OR OF FORTUNE SEEMED TO BE WANTING TO HER HER FACE WAS BEAUTIFUL WITH THE RICH BEAUTY OF THE SOUTH HER UNDERSTANDING QUICK HER MANNERS GRACEFUL HER RANK EXALTED HER POSSESSIONS IMMENSE BUT HER UNGOVERNABLE PASSIONS HAD TURNED ALL THESE BLESSINGS INTO CURSES SHE HAD FOUND THE MISERY OF AN ILL ASSORTED MARRIAGE INTOLERABLE HAD FLED FROM HER HUSBAND HAD ABANDONED HER VAST WEALTH AND AFTER HAVING ASTONISHED ROME AND PIEDMONT BY HER ADVENTURES HAD FIXED HER ABODE IN ENGLAND HER HOUSE WAS THE FAVOURITE RESORT OF MEN OF WIT AND PLEASURE WHO FOR THE SAKE OF HER SMILES AND HER TABLE ENDURED HER FREQUENT FITS OF INSOLENCE AND ILL HUMOUR ROCHESTER AND GODOLPHIN SOMETIMES FORGOT THE CARES OF STATE IN HER COMPANY BARILLON AND SAINT EVREMOND FOUND IN HER DRAWING ROOM CONSOLATION FOR THEIR LONG BANISHMENT FROM PARIS THE LEARNING OF VOSSIUS THE WIT OF WALLER WERE DAILY EMPLOYED TO FLATTER AND AMUSE HER BUT HER DISEASED MIND REQUIRED STRONGER STIMULANTS AND SOUGHT THEM IN GALLANTRY IN BASSET AND IN USQUEBAUGH WHILE CHARLES FLIRTED WITH HIS THREE SULTANAS HORTENSIA'S FRENCH PAGE A HANDSOME BOY WHOSE VOCAL PERFORMANCES WERE THE DELIGHT OF WHITEHALL AND WERE REWARDED BY NUMEROUS PRESENTS OF RICH CLOTHES PONIES AND GUINEAS WARBLED SOME AMOROUS VERSES A PARTY OF TWENTY COURTIERS WAS SEATED AT CARDS ROUND A LARGE TABLE ON WHICH GOLD WAS HEAPED IN MOUNTAINS EVEN THEN THE KING HAD COMPLAINED THAT HE DID NOT FEEL QUITE WELL HE HAD NO APPETITE FOR HIS SUPPER HIS REST THAT NIGHT WAS BROKEN BUT ON THE FOLLOWING MORNING HE ROSE AS USUAL EARLY TO THAT MORNING THE CONTENDING FACTIONS IN HIS COUNCIL HAD DURING SOME DAYS LOOKED FORWARD WITH ANXIETY THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN HALIFAX AND ROCHESTER SEEMED TO BE APPROACHING A DECISIVE CRISIS HALIFAX NOT CONTENT WITH HAVING ALREADY DRIVEN HIS RIVAL FROM THE BOARD OF TREASURY HAD UNDERTAKEN TO PROVE HIM GUILTY OF SUCH DISHONESTY OR NEGLECT IN THE CONDUCT OF THE FINANCES AS OUGHT TO BE PUNISHED BY DISMISSION FROM THE PUBLIC SERVICE IT WAS EVEN WHISPERED THAT THE LORD PRESIDENT WOULD PROBABLY BE SENT TO THE TOWER THE KING HAD PROMISED TO ENQUIRE INTO THE MATTER THE SECOND OF FEBRUARY HAD BEEN FIXED FOR THE INVESTIGATION AND SEVERAL OFFICERS OF THE REVENUE HAD BEEN ORDERED TO ATTEND WITH THEIR BOOKS ON THAT DAY BUT A GREAT TURN OF FORTUNE WAS AT HAND SCARCELY HAD CHARLES RISEN FROM HIS BED WHEN HIS ATTENDANTS PERCEIVED THAT HIS UTTERANCE WAS INDISTINCT AND THAT HIS THOUGHTS SEEMED TO BE WANDERING SEVERAL MEN OF RANK HAD AS USUAL ASSEMBLED TO SEE THEIR SOVEREIGN SHAVED AND DRESSED HE MADE AN EFFORT TO CONVERSE WITH THEM IN HIS USUAL GAY STYLE BUT HIS GHASTLY LOOK SURPRISED AND ALARMED THEM SOON HIS FACE GREW BLACK HIS EYES TURNED IN HIS HEAD HE UTTERED A CRY STAGGERED AND FELL INTO THE ARMS OF ONE OF HIS LORDS A PHYSICIAN WHO HAD CHARGE OF THE ROYAL RETORTS AND CRUCIBLES HAPPENED TO BE PRESENT HE HAD NO LANCES BUT HE OPENED A VEIN WITH A PENKNIFE THE BLOOD FLOWED FREELY BUT THE KING WAS STILL INSENSIBLE HE WAS LAID ON HIS BED WHERE DURING A SHORT TIME THE DUCHESS OF PORTSMOUTH HUNG OVER HIM WITH THE FAMILIARITY OF A WIFE BUT THE ALARM HAD BEEN GIVEN THE QUEEN AND THE DUCHESS OF YORK WERE HASTENING TO THE ROOM THE FAVOURITE CONCUBINE WAS FORCED TO RETIRE TO HER OWN APARTMENTS THOSE APARTMENTS HAD BEEN THRICE PULLED DOWN AND THRICE REBUILT BY HER LOVER TO GRATIFY HER CAPRICE THE VERY FURNITURE OF THE CHIMNEY WAS MASSY SILVER SEVERAL FINE PAINTINGS WHICH PROPERLY BELONGED TO THE QUEEN HAD BEEN TRANSFERRED TO THE DWELLING OF THE MISTRESS THE SIDEBOARDS WERE PILED WITH RICHLY WROUGHT PLATE IN THE NICHES STOOD CABINETS THE MASTERPIECES OF JAPANESE ART ON THE HANGINGS FRESH FROM THE LOOMS OF PARIS WERE DEPICTED IN TINTS WHICH NO ENGLISH TAPESTRY COULD RIVAL BIRDS OF GORGEOUS PLUMAGE LANDSCAPES HUNTING MATCHES THE LORDLY TERRACE OF SAINT GERMAINS THE STATUES AND FOUNTAINS OF VERSAILLES IN THE MIDST OF THIS SPLENDOUR PURCHASED BY GUILT AND SHAME THE UNHAPPY WOMAN GAVE HERSELF UP TO AN AGONY OF GRIEF WHICH TO DO HER JUSTICE WAS NOT WHOLLY SELFISH AND NOW THE GATES OF WHITEHALL WHICH ORDINARILY STOOD OPEN TO ALL COMERS WERE CLOSED BUT PERSONS WHOSE FACES WERE KNOWN WERE STILL PERMITTED TO ENTER THE ANTECHAMBERS AND GALLERIES WERE SOON FILLED TO OVERFLOWING AND EVEN THE SICK ROOM WAS CROWDED WITH PEERS PRIVY COUNCILLORS AND FOREIGN MINISTERS ALL THE MEDICAL MEN OF NOTE IN LONDON WERE SUMMONED SO HIGH DID POLITICAL ANIMOSITIES RUN THAT THE PRESENCE OF SOME WHIG PHYSICIANS WAS REGARDED AS AN EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE ONE ROMAN CATHOLIC WHOSE SKILL WAS THEN WIDELY RENOWNED DOCTOR THOMAS SHORT WAS IN ATTENDANCE SEVERAL OF THE PRESCRIPTIONS HAVE BEEN PRESERVED ONE OF THEM IS SIGNED BY FOURTEEN DOCTORS THE PATIENT WAS BLED LARGELY HOT IRON WAS APPLIED TO HIS HEAD A LOATHSOME VOLATILE SALT EXTRACTED FROM HUMAN SKULLS WAS FORCED INTO HIS MOUTH HE RECOVERED HIS SENSES BUT HE WAS EVIDENTLY IN A SITUATION OF EXTREME DANGER THE QUEEN WAS FOR A TIME ASSIDUOUS IN HER ATTENDANCE THE DUKE OF YORK SCARCELY LEFT HIS BROTHER'S BEDSIDE THE PRIMATE AND FOUR OTHER BISHOPS WERE THEN IN LONDON THEY REMAINED AT WHITEHALL ALL DAY AND TOOK IT BY TURNS TO SIT UP AT NIGHT IN THE KING'S ROOM THE NEWS OF HIS ILLNESS FILLED THE CAPITAL WITH SORROW AND DISMAY FOR HIS EASY TEMPER AND AFFABLE MANNERS HAD WON THE AFFECTION OF A LARGE PART OF THE NATION AND THOSE WHO MOST DISLIKED HIM PREFERRED HIS UNPRINCIPLED LEVITY TO THE STERN AND EARNEST BIGOTRY OF HIS BROTHER ON THE MORNING OF THURSDAY THE FIFTH OF FEBRUARY THE LONDON GAZETTE ANNOUNCED THAT HIS MAJESTY WAS GOING ON WELL AND WAS THOUGHT BY THE PHYSICIANS TO BE OUT OF DANGER THE BELLS OF ALL THE CHURCHES RANG MERRILY AND PREPARATIONS FOR BONFIRES WERE MADE IN THE STREETS BUT IN THE EVENING IT WAS KNOWN THAT A RELAPSE HAD TAKEN PLACE AND THAT THE MEDICAL ATTENDANTS HAD GIVEN UP ALL HOPE THE PUBLIC MIND WAS GREATLY DISTURBED BUT THERE WAS NO DISPOSITION TO TUMULT THE DUKE OF YORK WHO HAD ALREADY TAKEN ON HIMSELF TO GIVE ORDERS ASCERTAINED THAT THE CITY WAS PERFECTLY QUIET AND THAT HE MIGHT WITHOUT DIFFICULTY BE PROCLAIMED AS SOON AS HIS BROTHER SHOULD EXPIRE THE KING WAS IN GREAT PAIN AND COMPLAINED THAT HE FELT AS IF A FIRE WAS BURNING WITHIN HIM YET HE BORE UP AGAINST HIS SUFFERINGS WITH A FORTITUDE WHICH DID NOT SEEM TO BELONG TO HIS SOFT AND LUXURIOUS NATURE THE SIGHT OF HIS MISERY AFFECTED HIS WIFE SO MUCH THAT SHE FAINTED AND WAS CARRIED SENSELESS TO HER CHAMBER THE PRELATES WHO WERE IN WAITING HAD FROM THE FIRST EXHORTED HIM TO PREPARE FOR HIS END THEY NOW THOUGHT IT THEIR DUTY TO ADDRESS HIM IN A STILL MORE URGENT MANNER WILLIAM SANCROFT ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY AN HONEST AND PIOUS THOUGH NARROWMINDED MAN USED GREAT FREEDOM IT IS TIME HE SAID TO SPEAK OUT FOR SIR YOU ARE ABOUT TO APPEAR BEFORE A JUDGE WHO IS NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS THE KING ANSWERED NOT A WORD THOMAS KEN BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS THEN TRIED HIS POWERS OF PERSUASION HE WAS A MAN OF PARTS AND LEARNING OF QUICK SENSIBILITY AND STAINLESS VIRTUE HIS ELABORATE WORKS HAVE LONG BEEN FORGOTTEN BUT HIS MORNING AND EVENING HYMNS ARE STILL REPEATED DAILY IN THOUSANDS OF DWELLINGS THOUGH LIKE MOST OF HIS ORDER ZEALOUS FOR MONARCHY HE WAS NO SYCOPHANT BEFORE HE BECAME A BISHOP HE HAD MAINTAINED THE HONOUR OF HIS GOWN BY REFUSING WHEN THE COURT WAS AT WINCHESTER TO LET ELEANOR GWYNN LODGE IN THE HOUSE WHICH HE OCCUPIED THERE AS A PREBENDARY THE KING HAD SENSE ENOUGH TO RESPECT SO MANLY A SPIRIT OF ALL THE PRELATES HE LIKED KEN THE BEST IT WAS TO NO PURPOSE HOWEVER THAT THE GOOD BISHOP NOW PUT FORTH ALL HIS ELOQUENCE HIS SOLEMN AND PATHETIC EXHORTATION AWED AND MELTED THE BYSTANDERS TO SUCH A DEGREE THAT SOME AMONG THEM BELIEVED HIM TO BE FILLED WITH THE SAME SPIRIT WHICH IN THE OLD TIME HAD BY THE MOUTHS OF NATHAN AND ELIAS CALLED SINFUL PRINCES TO REPENTANCE CHARLES HOWEVER WAS UNMOVED HE MADE NO OBJECTION INDEED WHEN THE SERVICE FOR THE VISITATION OF THE SICK WAS READ IN REPLY TO THE PRESSING QUESTIONS OF THE DIVINES HE SAID THAT HE WAS SORRY FOR WHAT HE HAD DONE AMISS AND HE SUFFERED THE ABSOLUTION TO BE PRONOUNCED OVER HIM ACCORDING TO THE FORMS OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND BUT WHEN HE WAS URGED TO DECLARE THAT HE DIED IN THE COMMUNION OF THAT CHURCH HE SEEMED NOT TO HEAR WHAT WAS SAID AND NOTHING COULD INDUCE HIM TO TAKE THE EUCHARIST FROM THE HANDS OF THE BISHOPS A TABLE WITH BREAD AND WINE WAS BROUGHT TO HIS BEDSIDE BUT IN VAIN SOMETIMES HE SAID THAT THERE WAS NO HURRY AND SOMETIMES THAT HE WAS TOO WEAK MANY ATTRIBUTED THIS APATHY TO CONTEMPT FOR DIVINE THINGS AND MANY TO THE STUPOR WHICH OFTEN PRECEDES DEATH BUT THERE WERE IN THE PALACE A FEW PERSONS WHO KNEW BETTER CHARLES HAD NEVER BEEN A SINCERE MEMBER OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH HIS MIND HAD LONG OSCILLATED BETWEEN HOBBISM AND POPERY WHEN HIS HEALTH WAS GOOD AND HIS SPIRITS HIGH HE WAS A SCOFFER IN HIS FEW SERIOUS MOMENTS HE WAS A ROMAN CATHOLIC THE DUKE OF YORK WAS AWARE OF THIS BUT WAS ENTIRELY OCCUPIED WITH THE CARE OF HIS OWN INTERESTS HE HAD ORDERED THE OUTPORTS TO BE CLOSED HE HAD POSTED DETACHMENTS OF THE GUARDS IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE CITY HE HAD ALSO PROCURED THE FEEBLE SIGNATURE OF THE DYING KING TO AN INSTRUMENT BY WHICH SOME DUTIES GRANTED ONLY TILL THE DEMISE OF THE CROWN WERE LET TO FARM FOR A TERM OF THREE YEARS THESE THINGS OCCUPIED THE ATTENTION OF JAMES TO SUCH A DEGREE THAT THOUGH ON ORDINARY OCCASIONS HE WAS INDISCREETLY AND UNSEASONABLY EAGER TO BRING OVER PROSELYTES TO HIS CHURCH HE NEVER REFLECTED THAT HIS BROTHER WAS IN DANGER OF DYING WITHOUT THE LAST SACRAMENTS THIS NEGLECT WAS THE MORE EXTRAORDINARY BECAUSE THE DUCHESS OF YORK HAD AT THE REQUEST OF THE QUEEN SUGGESTED ON THE MORNING ON WHICH THE KING WAS TAKEN ILL THE PROPRIETY OF PROCURING SPIRITUAL ASSISTANCE FOR SUCH ASSISTANCE CHARLES WAS AT LAST INDEBTED TO AN AGENCY VERY DIFFERENT FROM THAT OF HIS PIOUS WIFE AND SISTER-IN-LAW A LIFE OF FRIVOLTY AND VICE HAD 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