The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2

[ Adda, Nov. 9/19. 1685.]

276 (return)

[ The Professor of Greek in the College De Propaganda Fide expressed his admiration in some detestable hexameters and pentameters, of which the following specimen may suffice:

Rogerion de akepsomenos lamproio thriambon, oka mal eissen kai theen ochlos apas thaumazousa de ten pompen pagkhrusea t' auton armata tous thippous toiade Rome ethe.

The Latin verses are a little better. Nahum Tate responded in English

 
"His glorious train and passing pomp to view,
A pomp that even to Rome itself was new,
Each age, each sex, the Latian turrets filled,
Each age and sex in tears of joy distilled."]
 

277 (return)

[ Correspondence of James and Innocent, in the British Museum; Burnet, i 703-705.; Welwood's Memoirs; Commons' Journals, Oct. 28. 1689; An Account of his Excellency Roger Earl of Castelmaine's Embassy, by Michael Wright, chief steward of his Excellency's house at Rome, 1688.]

278 (return)

[ Barillon, May 2/12 1687.]

279 (return)

[ Memoirs of the Duke of Somerset; Citters, July 5/15. 1687; Eachard's History of the Revolution; Clarke's Life of James the Second, ii. 116, 117, 118.; Lord Lonsdale's Memoirs.]

280 (return)

[ London Gazette, July 7. 1687; Citters, July 7/17 Account of the ceremony reprinted among the Somers Tracts.]

281 (return)

[ London Gazette, July 4. 1687.]

282 (return)

[ See the statutes 18 Henry 6. C. 19.; 2 & 3 Ed. 6. C. 2.; Eachard's History of the Revolution; Kennet, iii. 468.; North's Life of Guildford, 247.; London Gazette, April 18. May 23. 1687; Vindication of the E. of R, (Earl of Rochester).]

283 (return)

[ Dryden's Prologues and Cibber's Memoirs contain abundant proofs of the estimation in which the taste of the Oxonians was held by the most admired poets and actors.]

284 (return)

[ See the poem called Advice to the Painter upon the Defeat of the Rebels in the West. See also another poem, a most detestable one, on the same subject, by Stepney, who was then studying at Trinity College.]

285 (return)

[ Mackay's character of Sheffield, with Swift's note; the Satire on the Deponents, 1688; Life of John, Duke of Buckinghamshire, 1729; Barillon, Aug. 30. 1687. I have a manuscript lampoon on Mulgrave, dated 1690. It is not destitute of spirit. The most remarkable lines are these:

Peters (Petre) today and Burnet tomorrow, Knaves of all sides and religions he'll woo.]

286 (return)

[ See the proceedings against the University of Cambridge in the collection of State Trials.]

287 (return)

[ Wood's Athenae Oxonienses; Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber; Citters, March 2/12 1686.]

288 (return)

[ Burnet, i. 697.; Letter of Lord Ailesbury printed in the European Magazine for April 1795.]

289 (return)

[ This gateway is now closed.]

290 (return)

[ Wood's Athenae Oxonienses; Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy.]

291 (return)

[ Burnet, i. 697.; Tanner's Notitia Monastica. At the visitation in the twenty-sixth year of Henry the Eighth it appeared that the annual revenue of King's College was 751l.; of New College, 487l.; of Magdalene, 1076l.]

292 (return)

[ A Relation of the Proceedings at the Charterhouse, 1689.]

293 (return)

[ See the London Gazette, from August 18 to September 1. 1687 Barillon, September 19/29]

294 (return)

[ "Penn, chef des Quakers, qu'on sait etre dans les interets du Roi d'Angleterre, est si fort decrie parmi ceux de son parti qu'ils n'ont plus aucune confiance en lui."—Bonrepaux to Seignelay, Sept. 12/22 1687. The evidence of Gerard Croese is to the same effect. "Etiam Quakeri Pennum iron amplius, ut ante, ita amabant ac magnifaciebant, quidam aversabantur ac fugiebant."—Historia Quakeriana, lib, ii. 1695.]

295 (return)

[ Cartwright's Diary, August 30. 1687. Clarkson's Life of William Penn.]

296 (return)

[ London Gazette, Sept. 5.; Sheridan MS.; Barillon, Sept. 1687. "Le Roi son maitre," says Barillon, "a temoigne une grande satisfaction des mesures qu'il a prises, et a autorise ce qu'il a fait en faveur des Catholiques. Il les etablit dans les emplois et les charges, en sorte que l'autorite se trouvera bientot entre leurs mains. Il reste encore beaucoup de choses a faire en ce pays la pour retirer les biens injustement otes aux Catholiques. Mais cela ne peut s'executer qu'avec le tems et dans l'assemblee d'un parlement en Irlande."]

297 (return)

[ London Gazette of Sept. 5. and Sept. 8. 1687]

298 (return)

[ Proceedings against Magdalene College, in Oxon, for not electing Anthony Farmer president of the said College, in the Collection of State Trials, Howell's edition; Luttrell's Diary, June 15. 17., Oct. 24., Dec. 10. 1687; Smith's Narrative; Letter of Dr. Richard Rawlinson, dated Oct. 31. 1687; Reresby's Memoirs; Burnet, i. 699.; Cartwright's Diary; Citters, Oct 25/Nov 4, Oct 28/Nov 7 Nov 8/18 Nov 18/28 1687.]

299 (return)

[ "Quand on connoit le dedans de cette cour aussi intimement que je la connois, on peut croire que sa Majeste Britannique donnera volontiers dans ces sortes de projets."—Bonrepaux to Seignelay, March 18/28 1686.]

300 (return)

[ "Que, quand pour etablir la religion Catholique et pour la confirmer icy, il (James) devroit se rendre en quelque facon dependant de la France, et mettre la decision de la succession a la couronne entre les mains de ce monarque la, qu'il seroit oblige de le faire, parcequ'il vaudroit mieux pour ses sujets qu'ils devinssent vassaux du Roy de France, etant Catholiques, que de demeurer comme esclaves du Diable." This paper is in the archives of both France and Holland.]

301 (return)

[ Citters, Aug. 6/16 17/27 1686. Barillon, Aug. 19/29]

302 (return)

[ Barillon, Sept. 13/23 1686. "La succession est une matiere fort delicate a traiter. Je sais pourtant qu'on en parle au Roy d'Angleterre, et qu'on ne desespere pas avec le temps de trouver des moyens pour faire passer la couronne sur la tete d'un heritier Catholique."]

303 (return)

[ Bonrepaux, July 11/21. 1687.]

304 (return)

[ Bonrepaux to Seignelay, Aug 25/Sept 4 1687. I will quote a few words from this most remarkable despatch: "je scay bien certainement que l'intention du Roy d'Angleterre est de faire perdre ce royaume (Ireland) a son successeur, et de le fortifier en sorte que tous ses sujets Catholiques y puissent avoir un asile assure. Son projet est de mettre les choses en cet estat dans le cours de cinq annees." In the Secret Consults of the Romish Party in Ireland, printed in 1690, there is a passage which shows that this negotiation had not been kept strictly secret. "Though the King kept it private from most of his council, yet certain it is that he had promised the French King the disposal of that government and kingdom when things had attained to that growth as to be fit to bear it."]

305 (return)

[ Citters, Oct 28/Nov 7, Nov 22/Dec 2 1687; the Princess Anne to the Princess of Orange, March 14. and 20. 1687/8; Barillon, Dec. 1/11 1687; Revolution Politics; the song "Two Toms and a Nat;" Johnstone, April 4. 1688; Secret Consults of the Romish Party in Ireland, 1690.]

306 (return)

[ The king's uneasiness on this subject is strongly described by Ronquillo, Dec. 12/22 1687 "Un Principe de Vales y un Duque de York y otro di Lochaosterna (Lancaster, I suppose,) no bastan a reducir la gente; porque el Rey tiene 54 anos, y vendra a morir, dejando los hijos pequenos, y que entonces el reyno se apoderara dellos, y los nombrara tutor, y los educara en la religion protestante, contra la disposicion que dejare el Rey, y la autoridad de la Reyna."]

307 (return)

[ Three lists framed at this time are extant; one in the French archives, the other two in the archives of the Portland family. In these lists every peer is entered under one of three heads, For the Repeal of the Test, Against the Repeal, and Doubtful. According to one list the numbers were, 31 for, 86 against, and 20 doubtful; according to another, 33 for, 87 against, and 19 doubtful; according to the third, 35 for, 92 against, and 10 doubtful. Copies of the three lists are in the Mackintosh MSS.]

308 (return)

[ There is in the British Museum a letter of Dryden to Etherege, dated Feb. 1688. I do not remember to have seen it in print. "Oh," says Dryden, "that our monarch would encourage noble idleness by his own example, as he of blessed memory did before him. For my mind misgives me that he will not much advance his affairs by stirring."]

309 (return)

[ Barillon, Aug 29/Sep 8 1687.]

310 (return)

[ Told by Lord Bradford, who was present, to Dartmouth; note on Burnet, i. 755.]

311 (return)

[ London Gazette, Dec. 12. 1687.]

312 (return)

[ Bonrepaux to Seignelay, Nov. 14/24.; Citters, Nov. 15/25.; Lords' Journals, Dec. 20. 1689.]

313 (return)

[ Citters, Oct 28/Nov 7 1687.]

314 (return)

[ Halstead's Succinct Genealogy of the Family of Vere, 1685; Collins's Historical Collections. See in the Lords' Journals, and in Jones's Reports, the proceedings respecting the earldom of Oxford, in March and April 1625/6. The exordium of the speech of Lord Chief Justice Crew is among the finest specimens of the ancient English eloquence. Citters, Feb. 7/17 1688.]

315 (return)

[ Coxe's Shrewsbury Correspondence; Mackay's Memoirs; Life of Charles Duke of Shrewsbury, 1718; Burnet, i. 762.; Birch's Life of Tillotson, where the reader will find a letter from Tillotson to Shrewsbury, which seems to me a model of serious, friendly, and gentlemanlike reproof.]

316 (return)

[ The King was only Nell's Charles III. Whether Dorset or Major Hart had the honour of being her Charles I is a point open to dispute. But the evidence in favour of Dorset's claim seems to me to preponderate. See the suppressed passage of Burnet, i. 263.; and Pepys's Diary, Oct. 26. 1667.]

317 (return)

[ Pepys's Diary; Prior's dedication of his poems to the Duke of Dorset; Johnson's Life of Dorset; Dryden's Essay on Satire, and Dedication of the Essay on Dramatic Poesy. The affection of Dorset for his wife and his strict fidelity to her are mentioned with great contempt by that profligate coxcomb Sir George Etherege in his letters from Ratisbon, Dec. 9/19 1687, and Jan. 16/26 1688; Shadwell's Dedication of the Squire of Alsatia; Burnet, i. 264.; Mackay's Characters. Some parts of Dorset's character are well touched in his epitaph, written by Pope:

 
"Yet soft his nature, though severe his lay"
 

and again:

 
"Blest courtier, who could king and country please,
Yet sacred keep his friendships and his ease."]
 

318 (return)

[ Barillon, Jan. 9/19 1688; Citters, Jan 31/Feb 10]

319 (return)

[ Adda, Feb. 3/13 10/20 1688.]

320 (return)

[ Barillon,. Dec. 5/15 8/18. 12/22 1687; Citters, Nov 29/Dec 9 Dec 2/12]

321 (return)

[ Citters, Oct 28/Nov 7 1687; Lonsdale's Memoirs.]

322 (return)

[ Citters, Nov 22/Dec 2 1687.]

323 (return)

[ Ibid. Dec 27/Jan 6 1687/8.]

324 (return)

[ Ibid,]

325 (return)

[ Rochester's offensive warmth on this occasion is twice noticed by Johnstone, Nov. 25. and Dec. 8. 1687. His failure is mentioned by Citters, Dec. 6/16.]

326 (return)

[ Citters, Dec. 6/16. 1687]

327 (return)

[ Ibid. Dec. 20/30. 1687.]

328 (return)

[ Ibid March 30/April 9 1687.]

329 (return)

[ Ibid Nov 22/Dec 2 1687.]

330 (return)

[ Ibid. Nov. 15/25. 1687.]

331 (return)

[ Citters, April 10/20 1688.]

332 (return)

[ The anxiety about Lancashire is mentioned by Citters, in a despatch dated Nov. 18/28. 1687; the result in a despatch dated four days later.]

333 (return)

[ Bonrepaux, July 11/21 1687.]

334 (return)

[ Citters, Feb. 3/13 1688.]

335 (return)

[ Ibid. April 5/15 1688.]

336 (return)

[ London Gazette, Dec. 5. 1687; Citters, Dec. 6/16]

337 (return)

[ About twenty years before this time a Jesuit had noticed the retiring character of the Roman Catholic country gentlemen of England. "La nobilta Inglese, senon se legata in servigio, di Corte, o in opera di maestrato, vive, e gode il piu dell' anno alla campagna, ne' suoi palagi e poderi, dove son liberi e padroni; e cio tanto piu sollecitamente I Cattolici quanto piu utilmente, si come meno osservati cola."—L'lnghilterra descritta dal P. Daniello Bartoli. Roma, 1667.

"Many of the Popish Sheriffs," Johnstone wrote, "have estates, and declare that whoever expects false returns from them will be disappointed. The Popish gentry that live at their houses in the country are much different from those that live here in town. Several of them have refused to be Sheriffs or Deputy Lieutenants." Dec. 8. 1687.

Ronquillo says the same. "Algunos Catolicos que fueron nombrados per sherifes se han excusado," Jan. 9/19. 1688. He some months later assured his court that the Catholic country gentlemen would willingly consent to a compromise of which the terms should be that the penal laws should be abolished and the test retained. "Estoy informado," he says, "que los Catolicos de las provincias no lo reprueban, pues no pretendiendo oficios, y siendo solo algunos de la Corte los provechosos, les parece que mejoran su estado, quedando seguros ellos y sus descendientes en la religion, en la quietud, y en la seguridad de sus haciendas." July 23/Aug 2 1688.]

338 (return)

[ Privy Council Book, Sept. 25. 1687; Feb. 21. 1687/8]

339 (return)

[ Records of the Corporation, quoted in Brand's History of Newcastle. Johnstone, Feb. 21. 1687/8]

340 (return)

[ Johnstone, Feb. 21 1687/8]

341 (return)

[ Citters, Feb. 14/24 1688.]

342 (return)

[ Ibid. May 1/11. 1688.]

343 (return)

[ In the margin of the Privy Council Book may be observed the words "Second regulation," and "Third regulation," when a corporation had been remodelled more than once.]

344 (return)

[ Johnstone, May 23. 1688.]

345 (return)

[ Ibid. Feb. 21. 1688.]

346 (return)

[ Johnstone, Feb. 21. 1688.]

347 (return)

[ Citters, March 20/30 1688.]

348 (return)

[ Ibid. May 1/11 1688.]

349 (return)

[ Citters, May 22/June 1 1688.]

350 (return)

[ Ibid. May 1/11 1688.]

351 (return)

[ Ibid. May 18/28 1688.]

352 (return)

[ Ibid. April 6 1688; Treasury Letter Book, March 14. 1687; Ronquillo, April 16/26.]

353 (return)

[ Citters, May 18/28 1688.]

354 (return)

[ Citters, May 18/28 1688.]

355 (return)

[ London Gazette, Dec. 15. 1687. See the proceedings against Williams in the Collection of State Trials. "Ha hecho," says Ronquillo, "grande susto el haber nombrado el abogado Williams, que fue el orador y el mas arrabiado de toda la casa de los comunes en los ultimos terribles parlamentos del Rey difunto." Nov 27/Dec 7 1687.]

356 (return)

[ London Gazette, April 30. 1688; Barillon, April 26/May 6]

357 (return)

[ Citters, May 1/11. 1688.]

358 (return)

[ London Gazette, May 7. 1688.]

359 (return)

[ Johnstone May 27. 1688.]

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[ That very remarkable man, the late Alexander Knox, whose eloquent conversation and elaborate letters had a great influence on the minds of his contemporaries, learned, I suspect, much of his theological system from Fowler's writings. Fowler's book on the Design of Christianity was assailed by John Bunyan with a ferocity which nothing can justify, but which the birth and breeding of the honest tinker in some degree excuse.]

361 (return)

[ Johnstone, May 23. 1688. There is a satirical poem on this meeting entitled the Clerical Cabal.]

362 (return)

[ Clarendon's Diary, May 22. 1688.]

363 (return)

[ Extracts from Tanner MS. in Howell's State Trials; Life of Prideaux; Clarendon's Diary, May 16. 1688.]

364 (return)

[ Clarendon's Diary, May 16 and 17. 1688.]

365 (return)

[ Sancroft's Narrative printed from the Tanner MS.; Citters, May 22/June 1 1688.]

366 (return)

[ Burnet, i. 741; Revolution Politics; Higgins's Short View.]

367 (return)

[ Clarke's Life of James the Second, ii. 155.]

368 (return)

[ Citters, May 22/June 1688. Burnet, i. 740.; and Lord Dartmouth's note; Southey's Life of Wesley.]

369 (return)

[ Citters, May 22/June 1 1688]

370 (return)

[ Ibid. May 29/June 8 1688.]

371 (return)

[ Ibid.]

372 (return)

[ Barillon, May 24/June 3 May 31/June 10 1688; Citters, July, 1/11 Adda, May 25/June 4, May 30/June 9, June 1/11 Clarke s Life of James the Second, ii. 158.]

373 (return)

[ Burnet, i. 740.; Life of Prideaux; Citters, June 12/22 15/25 1688. Tanner MS.; Life and Correspondence of Pepys.]

374 (return)

[ Sancroft's Narrative, printed from the Tanner MS.]

375 (return)

[ Burnet, i. 741.; Citters, June 8/18 12/22. 1688; Luttrell's Diary, June 8.; Evelyn's Diary; Letter of Dr. Nalson to his wife, dated June 14., and printed from the Tanner MS.; Reresby's Memoirs.]

376 (return)

[ Reresby's Memoirs.]

377 (return)

[ Correspondence between Anne and Mary, in Dalrymple; Clarendon's Diary, Oct. 31. 1688.]

378 (return)

[ This is clear from Clarendon's Diary, Oct. 31. 1688.]

379 (return)

[ Clarke's Life of James the Second, ii. 159, 160.]

380 (return)

[ Clarendon's Diary, June 10. 1688.]

381 (return)

[ Johnstone gives in a very few words an excellent summary of the case against the King. "The generality of people conclude all is a trick; because they say the reckoning is changed, the Princess sent away, none of the Clarendon family nor the Dutch Ambassador sent for, the suddenness of the thing, the sermons, the confidence of the priests, the hurry." June 13. 1688.]

382 (return)

[ Ronquillo, July 26/Aug 5. Ronquillo adds, that what Zulestein said of the state of public opinion was strictly true.]

383 (return)

[ Citters, June 12/22 1688; Luttrell's Diary, June 18.]

384 (return)

[ For the events of this day see the State Trials; Clarendon's Diary Luttrell's Diary; Citters. June 15/25 Johnstone, June 18; Revolution Politics.]

385 (return)

[ Johnstone, June 18. 1688; Evelyn's Diary, June 29.]

386 (return)

[ Tanner MS.]

387 (return)

[ This fact was communicated to me in the most obliging manner by the Reverend R. S. Hawker of Morwenstow in Cornwall.]

388 (return)

[ Johnstone, June 18. 1688.]

389 (return)

[ Adda, June 29/July 9 1688]

390 (return)

[ Sunderland's own narrative is, of course, not to be implicitly trusted, but he vouched Godolphin as a witness of what took place respecting the Irish Act of Settlement.]

391 (return)

[ Barillon June 21/June 28 June 28/July 8 1688; Adda, June 29/July 9 Citters June 26/July 6; Johnstone, July 2. 1688; The Converts, a poem.]

392 (return)

[ Clarendon's Diary, June 21. 1688.]

393 (return)

[ Citters, June 26/ July 6. 1688.]

394 (return)

[ Johnstone, July 2. 1688.]

395 (return)

[ Ibid.]

396 (return)

[ Johnstone, July 2. 1688. The editor of Levinz's reports expresses great wonder that, after the Revolution, Levinz was not replaced on the bench. The facts related by Johnstone may perhaps explain the seeming injustice.]

397 (return)

[ I draw this inference from a letter of Compton to Sancroft, dated the 12th of June.]

398 (return)

[ Revolution Politics.]

399 (return)

[ This is the expression of an eye witness. It is in a newsletter in the Mackintosh Collection.]

400 (return)

[ See the proceedings in the Collection of State Trials. I have taken some touches from Johnstone, and some from Van Citters.]

401 (return)

[ Johnstone, July 2. 1688; Letter from Mr. Ince to the Archbishop, dated at six o'clock in the morning; Tanner MS.; Revolution Politics.]

402 (return)

[ Johnstone, July 2. 1688.]

403 (return)

[ State Trials; Oldmixon, 739.; Clarendon's Diary, June 25, 1688; Johnstone, July 2.; Citters, July 3/13 Adda, July 6/16; Luttrell's Diary; Barillon, July 2/12]

404 (return)

[ Citters, July 3/13 The gravity with which he tells the story has a comic effect. "Den Bisschop van Chester, wie seer de partie van het hof houdt, om te voldoen aan syne gewoone nieusgierigheyt, hem op dien tyt in Westminster Hall mede hebbende laten vinden, in het uytgaan doorgaans was uytgekreten voor een grypende wolf in schaaps kleederen; en by synde een beer van hooge stature en vollyvig, spotsgewyse alomme geroepen was dat men voor hem plaats moeste maken, om te laten passen, gelyck ook geschiede, om dat soo sy uytschreeuwden en hem in het aansigt seyden, by den Paus in syn buyck hadde."]

405 (return)

[ Luttrell; Citters, July 3/13. 1688. "Soo syn in tegendeel gedagte jurys met de uyterste acclamatie en alle teyckenen van genegenheyt en danckbaarheyt in het door passeren van de gemeente ontvangen. Honderden vielen haar om den hals met alle bedenckelycke wewensch van segen en geluck over hare persoonen en familien, om dat sy haar so heusch en eerlyck buyten verwagtinge als het ware in desen gedragen hadden. Veele van de grooten en kleynen adel wierpen in het wegryden handen vol gelt onder tie armen luyden, om op de gesontheyt van den Coning, der Heeren Prelaten, en de Jurys te drincken."]

406 (return)

[ "Mi trovava con Milord Sunderland la stessa mattina, quando venne l'Avvocato Generale a rendergli conto del successo, e disse, che mai piu a memoria d'huomini si era sentito un applauso, mescolato di voci e lagrime di giubilo, egual a quello che veniva egli di vedere in quest' occasione." Adda, July 6/16. 1688.]

407 (return)

[ Burnet, i. 744.; Citters, July 3/13 1688.]

408 (return)

[ See a very curious narrative published among other papers, in 1710, by Danby, then Duke of Leeds. There is an amusing account of the ceremony of burning a Pope in North's Examen, 570. See also the note on the Epilogue to the Tragedy of Oedipus in Scott's edition of Dryden.]

409 (return)

[ Reresby's Memoirs; Citters, 3/13 July 17. 1688; Adda 6/16 July; Barillon, July 2/12 Luttrell's Diary; Newsletter of July 4.; Oldmixon, 739.; Ellis Correspondence.]

410 (return)

[ The Fur Praedestinatus.]

411 (return)

[ This document will be found in the first of the twelve collections of papers relating to the affairs of England, printed at the end of 1688 and the beginning of 1689. It was put forth on the 26th of July, not quite a month after the trial. Lloyd of Saint Asaph about the same time told Henry Wharton that the Bishops purposed to adopt an entirely new policy towards the Protestant Dissenters; "Omni modo curaturos ut ecelesia sordibus et corruptelis penitus exueretur; ut sectariis reformatis reditus in ecclesiae sinum exoptati occasio ac ratio concederetur, si qui sobrii et pii essent; ut pertinacibus interim jugum le aretur, extinctis penitus legibus mulciatoriis."—Excerpta ex Vita H. Wharton.]

412 (return)

[ This change in the opinion of a section of the Tory party is well illustrated by a little tract published at the beginning of 1689, and entitled "A Dialogue between Two Friends, wherein the Church of England is vindicated in joining with the Prince of Orange."]

413 (return)

[ "Aut nunc, aut nunquam."—Witsen MS. quoted by Wagenaar, book lx.]

414 (return)

[ Burnet, i. 763.]

415 (return)

[ Sidney's Diary and Correspondence, edited by Mr. Blencowe; Mackay's Memoirs with Swift's note; Burnet, i. 763.]

416 (return)

[ Burnet, i. 764.; Letter in cipher to William, dated June 18. 1688, in Dalrymple.]

417 (return)

[ Burnet, i. 764.; Letter in cipher to William, dated June 18 1688.]

418 (return)

[ As to Montaigne, see Halifax's Letter to Cotton. I am not sure that the head of Halifax in Westminster Abbey does not give a more lively notion of him than any painting or engraving that I have seen.]

419 (return)

[ See Danby's Introduction to the papers which he published in 1710; Burnet, i. 764.]

420 (return)

[ Burnet, i. 764.; Sidney to the Prince of Orange, June 30. 1688, in Dalrymple.]

421 (return)

[ Burnet, i. 763.; Lumley to William, May 31. 1688, in Dalrymple.]

422 (return)

[ See the invitation at length in Dalrymple.]

423 (return)

[ Sidney's Letter to William, June 30. 1688; Avaux Neg., July 10/20 12/22]

424 (return)

[ Bonrepaux, July 18/28 1687.]

425 (return)

[ Birch's Extracts, in the British Museum.]

426 (return)

[ Avaux Neg., Oct 29/Nov 9 1683]

427 (return)

[ As to the relation in which the Stadtholder and the city of Amsterdam stood towards each other, see Avaux, passim.]

428 (return)

[ Adda, July 6/16 1688.]

429 (return)

[ Reresby's Memoirs.]

430 (return)

[ Barillon, July 2/12 1688.]

431 (return)

[ London Gazette of July 16. 1688. The order bears date July 12.]

432 (return)

[ Barillon's own phrase, July 6/16 1688.]

433 (return)

[ In one of the numerous ballads of that time are the following lines:

 
"Both our Britons are fooled,
Who the laws overruled,
And next parliament each will he plaguily schooled."
 

The two Britons are Jeffreys and Williams, who were both natives of Wales.]

434 (return)

[ London Gazette, July 9. 1688.]

435 (return)

[ Ellis Correspondence, July 10. 1688; Clarendon's Diary, Aug. 3. 1688.]

436 (return)

[ London Gazette, July 9. 1688; Adda, July 13/23 Evelyn's Diary, July 12. Johnstone, Dec. 8/18 1687, Feb. 6/16 1688.]

437 (return)

[ Sprat's Letters to the Earl of Dorset; London Gazette, Aug. 23. 1688.]

438 (return)

[ London Gazette, July 26. 1688; Adda, July 27/Aug 6.; Newsletter in the Mackintosh Collection, July 25. Ellis Correspondence, July 28. 31; Wood's Fasti Oxonienses.]

439 (return)

[ Wood's Athenae Oxonienses; Luttrell's Diary, Aug. 23. 1688.]

440 (return)

[ Ronquillo, Sept. 17/27 1688; Luttrell's Diary, Sept. 6.]

441 (return)

[ Ellis Correspondence, August 4. 7. 1688; Bishop Sprat's relation of the Conference of Nov. 6. 1688.]

442 (return)

[ Luttrell's Diary, Aug. 8. 1688.]

443 (return)

[ This is told us by three writers who could well remember that time, Kennet, Eachard, and Oldmixon. See also the Caveat against the Whigs.]

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[ Barillon, Aug 24/Sept 1 1688; Sept. 3/13 6/16 8/18]

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[ Luttrell's Diary, Aug. 27. 1688.]

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[ King's State of the Protestants of Ireland; Secret Consults of the Romish Party in Ireland.]

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[ Secret Consults of he Romish Party in Ireland.]

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[ History of the Desertion, 1689; compare the first and second editions; Barillon, Sept. 8/18 1688; Citters of the same date; Clarke's Life of James the Second, ii. 168. The compiler of the last mentioned work says that Churchill moved the court to sentence the six officers to death. This story does not appear to have been taken from the King's papers; I therefore regard it as one of the thousand fictions invented at Saint Germains for the purpose of blackening a character which was black enough without such daubing. That Churchill may have affected great indignation on this occasion, in order to hide the treason which he meditated, is highly probable. But it is impossible to believe that a man of his sense would have urged the members of a council of war to inflict a punishment which was notoriously beyond their competence.]

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[ The song of Lillibullero is among the State Poems, to Percy's Relics the first part will be found, but not the second part, which was added after William's landing. In the Examiner and in several pamphlets of 1712 Wharton is mentioned as the author.]

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[ See the Negotiations of the Count of Avaux. It would be almost impossible for me to cite all the passages which have furnished me with materials for this part of my narrative. The most important will be found under the following dates: 1685, Sept. 20, Sept. 24, Oct. 5, Dec. 20; 1686, Jan. 3, Nov. 22; 1687, Oct. 2, Nov. 6, Nov. 19 1688, July 29, Aug. 20. Lord Lonsdale, in his Memoirs, justly remarks that, but for the mismanagement of Lewis, the city of Amsterdam would have prevented the Revolution.]

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[ Professor Von Ranke, Die Romischen Papste, book viii.; Burnet, i. 759.]

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[ Burnet, i. 758.; Lewis paper bears date Aug 27/Sept 6 1688. It will be found in the Recueil des Traites, vol. iv. no. 219.]

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[ For the consummate dexterity with which he exhibited two different views of his policy to two different parties he was afterwards bitterly reviled by the Court of Saint Germains. "Licet Foederatis publicus ille preado haud aliud aperte proponat nisi ut Galici imperii exuberans amputetur potesias, veruntamen sibi et suis ex haeretica faece complicibus, ut pro comperto habemus, longe aliud promittit, nempe ut, exciso vel enervato Francorum regno, ubi Catholicarum partium summum jam robur situm est, haeretica ipsorum pravitas per orbem Christisnum universum praevaleat."—Letter of James to the Pope; evidently written in 1689.]