de by Sir Gilbert de Lannoy, Knight,
upon surveys of several cities, ports, and rivers,
taken by him in Egypt and Syria, in the year of
grace of our Lord 1422, by order of the most high,
most puissant, and most excellent prince, King
Henry of England, heir and Regent of France, whom
God assoil." The whole of Mr. Webb's paper well
deserves perusal.]

In dismissing the immediate subject of this inquiry, the Author of
these Memoirs feels himself under the painful necessity of recording
his deliberate judgment on the inaccuracies of that celebrated writer,
whose reflections upon Henry's dying declaration have been (p. 318)
animadverted upon here. Through the whole series of years to the
events of which these Memoirs are chiefly limited, he has been able to
find very few transactions in recording or commenting upon which Hume
has not been guilty of error; whilst the mistakes into which he has
fallen (some more, some less, gravely affecting the character of an
historian,) are generally such as an examination of the best evidence,
conducted with ordinary care, would have enabled him successfully to
avoid. Hume, unfortunately, supplied himself without stint from the
stream after it had mingled with many turbid and discolouring waters.
To draw, in each case of doubt and difficulty, from the well-head of
historical truth, would have exacted more time and labour than he was
ready to bestow. Had he prescribed to himself a system of research the
very opposite to that in which he unhappily indulged, instead of
representing Henry of Monmouth to have left the world with the
falsehood of a self-deceiver on his tongue, he would have been
compelled to record him as a man of piety, mercy, and truth.

CHAPTER XXIX. (p. 319)

WAS HENRY OF MONMOUTH A PERSECUTOR? -- JUST PRINCIPLES OF CONDUCTING
THE INQUIRY, AND FORMING THE JUDGMENT. -- MODERN CHARGE AGAINST HENRY.
-- REVIEW OF THE PREVALENT OPINIONS ON RELIGIOUS LIBERTY. -- TRUE
PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN FREEDOM. -- DUTY OF THE STATE AND OF
INDIVIDUALS TO PROMOTE THE PREVALENCE OF TRUE RELIGION. -- CHARGE
AGAINST HENRY, AS PRINCE OF WALES, FOR PRESENTING A PETITION AGAINST
THE LOLLARDS. -- THE MERCIFUL INTENTION OF THAT PETITION. -- HIS
CONDUCT AT THE DEATH OF BADBY.

WAS HENRY OF MONMOUTH A PE