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[Footnote 395: Ibid.]

[Footnote 396: 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.]

[Footnote 397: I draw this inference from a letter of Compton to Sancroft, dated the 12th of June.]

[Footnote 398: Revolution Politics.]

[Footnote 399: This is the expression of an eye witness. It is in a newsletter in the Mackintosh Collection.]

[Footnote 400: See the proceedings in the Collection of State Trials. I have taken some touches from Johnstone, and some from Van Citters.]

[Footnote 401: Johnstone, July 2. 1688; Letter from Mr. Ince to the Archbishop, dated at six o'clock in the morning; Tanner MS.; Revolution Politics.]

[Footnote 402: Johnstone, July 2. 1688.]

[Footnote 403: 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]

[Footnote 404: 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 pa.s.sen, gelyck ook geschiede, om dat soo sy uytschreeuwden en hem in het aansigt seyden, by den Paus in syn buyck hadde."]

[Footnote 405: 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 pa.s.seren 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."]

[Footnote 406: "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 sent.i.to 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.]

[Footnote 407: Burnet, i. 744.; Citters, July 3/13 1688.]

[Footnote 408: 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.]

[Footnote 409: 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.]

[Footnote 410: The Fur Praedestinatus.]

[Footnote 411: This doc.u.ment 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.]

[Footnote 412: This change in the opinion of a section of the Tory party is well ill.u.s.trated by a little tract published at the beginning of 1689, and ent.i.tled "A Dialogue between Two Friends, wherein the Church of England is vindicated in joining with the Prince of Orange."]

[Footnote 413: "Aut nunc, aut nunquam."--Witsen MS. quoted by Wagenaar, book lx.]

[Footnote 414: Burnet, i. 763.]

[Footnote 415: Sidney's Diary and Correspondence, edited by Mr.

Blencowe; Mackay's Memoirs with Swift's note; Burnet, i. 763.]

[Footnote 416: Burnet, i. 764.; Letter in cipher to William, dated June 18. 1688, in Dalrymple.]

[Footnote 417: Burnet, i. 764.; Letter in cipher to William, dated June 18 1688.]

[Footnote 418: 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.]

[Footnote 419: See Danby's Introduction to the papers which he published in 1710; Burnet, i. 764.]

[Footnote 420: Burnet, i. 764.; Sidney to the Prince of Orange, June 30.

1688, in Dalrymple.]

[Footnote 421: Burnet, i. 763.; Lumley to William, May 31. 1688, in Dalrymple.]

[Footnote 422: See the invitation at length in Dalrymple.]

[Footnote 423: Sidney's Letter to William, June 30. 1688; Avaux Neg., July 10/20 12/22]

[Footnote 424: Bonrepaux, July 18/28 1687.]

[Footnote 425: Birch's Extracts, in the British Museum.]

[Footnote 426: Avaux Neg., Oct 29/Nov 9 1683]

[Footnote 427: As to the relation in which the Stadtholder and the city of Amsterdam stood towards each other, see Avaux, pa.s.sim.]

[Footnote 428: Adda, July 6/16 1688.]

[Footnote 429: Reresby's Memoirs.]

[Footnote 430: Barillon, July 2/12 1688.]

[Footnote 431: London Gazette of July 16. 1688. The order bears date July 12.]

[Footnote 432: Barillon's own phrase, July 6/16 1688.]

[Footnote 433: 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.]

[Footnote 434: London Gazette, July 9. 1688.]

[Footnote 435: Ellis Correspondence, July 10. 1688; Clarendon's Diary, Aug. 3. 1688.]

[Footnote 436: London Gazette, July 9. 1688; Adda, July 13/23 Evelyn's Diary, July 12. Johnstone, Dec. 8/18 1687, Feb. 6/16 1688.]

[Footnote 437: Sprat's Letters to the Earl of Dorset; London Gazette, Aug. 23. 1688.]

[Footnote 438: 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.]

[Footnote 439: Wood's Athenae Oxonienses; Luttrell's Diary, Aug. 23.

1688.]

[Footnote 440: Ronquillo, Sept. 17/27 1688; Luttrell's Diary, Sept. 6.]

[Footnote 441: Ellis Correspondence, August 4. 7. 1688; Bishop Sprat's relation of the Conference of Nov. 6. 1688.]