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"Let him with his blue riband be Tied close up to the gallows tree For my lady a cart; and I'd contrive it, Her dancing son and heir should drive it."]

[Footnote 808: As to the designs of the Whigs against Caermarthen, see Burnet, ii. 68, 69, and a very significant protest in the Lords'

journals, October 30. 1690. As to the relations between Caermarthen and G.o.dolphin, see G.o.dolphin's letter to William, dated March 20. 1691, in Dalrymple.]

[Footnote 809: My account of this conspiracy is chiefly taken from the evidence, oral and doc.u.mentary, which was produced on the trial of the conspirators. See also Burnet, ii. 69, 70., and the Life of James, ii.

441. Narcissus Luttrell remarks that no Roman Catholic appeared to have been admitted to the consultations of the conspirators.]

[Footnote 810: The genuineness of these letters was once contested on very frivolous grounds. But the letter of Turner to Sancroft, which is among the Tanner papers in the Bodleian Library, and which will be found in the Life of Ken by a Layman, must convince the most incredulous.]

[Footnote 811: The words are these: "The Modest inquiry--The Bishops'

Answer--Not the chilling of them--But the satisfying of friends." The Modest Inquiry was the pamphlet which hinted at Dewitting.]

[Footnote 812: Lords' and Commons' Journals Jan 5 1690/1; London Gazette, Jan 8]