The History of England, from the Accession of James the Second - Volume 2, Thomas Babington Macaulay [best autobiographies to read .txt] 📗

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.

FN 299 "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.

FN 300 "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.

FN 301 Citters, Aug. 6/16 17/27 1686. Barillon, Aug. 19/29

FN 302 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."

FN 303 Bonrepaux, July 11/21. 1687.

FN 304 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."

FN 305 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.

FN 306 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."

FN 307 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.

FN 308 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."

FN 309 Barillon, Aug 29/Sep 8 1687.

FN 310 Told by Lord Bradford, who was present, to Dartmouth; note on Burnet, i. 755.

FN 311 London Gazette, Dec. 12. 1687.

FN 312 Bonrepaux to Seignelay, Nov. 14/24.; Citters, Nov. 15/25.; Lords' Journals,

FN Dec. 20. 1689.

FN 313 Citters, Oct 28/Nov 7 1687.

FN 314 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.

FN 315 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.

FN 316 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.

FN 317 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."

FN 318 Barillon, Jan. 9/19 1688; Citters, Jan 31/Feb 10

FN 319 Adda, Feb. 3/13 10/20 1688.

FN 320 Barillon,. Dec. 5/15 8/18. 12/22 1687; Citters, Nov 29/Dec 9 Dec 2/12

FN 321 Citters, Oct 28/Nov 7 1687; Lonsdale's Memoirs.

FN 322 Citters, Nov 22/Dec 2 1687.

FN 323 Ibid. Dec 27/Jan 6 1687/8.

FN 324 Ibid,

FN 325 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.

FN 326 Citters, Dec. 6/16. 1687

FN 327 Ibid. Dec. 20/30. 1687.

FN 328 Ibid March 30/April 9 1687.

FN 329 Ibid Nov 22/Dec 2 1687.

FN 330 Ibid. Nov. 15/25. 1687.

FN 331 Citters, April 10/20 1688.

FN 332 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.

FN 333 Bonrepaux, July 11/21 1687.

FN 334 Citters, Feb. 3/13 1688.

FN 335 Ibid. April 5/15 1688.

FN 336 London Gazette, Dec. 5. 1687; Citters, Dec. 6/16

FN 337 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.

FN 338 Privy Council Book, Sept. 25. 1687; Feb. 21. 1687/8

FN 339 Records of the Corporation, quoted in Brand's History of Newcastle. Johnstone, Feb. 21. 1687/8

FN 340 Johnstone, Feb. 21 1687/8

FN 341 Citters, Feb. 14/24 1688.

FN 342 Ibid. May 1/11. 1688.

FN 343 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.

FN 344 Johnstone, May 23. 1688.

FN 345 Ibid. Feb. 21. 1688.

FN 346 Johnstone, Feb. 21. 1688.

FN 347 Citters, March 20/30 1688.

FN 348 Ibid. May 1/11 1688.

FN 349 Citters, May 22/June 1 1688.

FN 350 Ibid. May 1/11 1688.

FN 351 Ibid. May 18/28 1688.

FN 352 Ibid. April 6 1688; Treasury Letter Book, March 14. 1687; Ronquillo, April 16/26.

FN 353 Citters, May 18/28 1688.

FN 354 Citters, May 18/28 1688.

FN 355 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.

FN 356 London Gazette, April 30. 1688; Barillon, April 26/May 6

FN 357 Citters, May 1/11. 1688.

FN 358 London Gazette, May 7. 1688.

FN 359 Johnstone May 27. 1688.

FN 360 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.

FN 361 Johnstone, May 23. 1688. There is a satirical poem on this meeting entitled the Clerical Cabal.

FN 362 Clarendon's Diary, May 22. 1688.

FN 363 Extracts from Tanner MS. in Howell's State Trials; Life of Prideaux; Clarendon's Diary, May 16. 1688.

FN 364 Clarendon's Diary, May 16 and 17. 1688.

FN 365 Sancroft's Narrative printed from the Tanner MS.; Citters, May 22/June 1 1688.

FN 366 Burnet, i. 741; Revolution Politics; Higgins's Short View.

FN 367 Clarke's Life of James the Second, ii. 155.

FN 368 Citters, May 22/June 1688 . Burnet, i. 740.; and Lord Dartmouth's note; Southey's Life of Wesley.

FN 369 Citters, May 22/June 1 1688

FN 370 Ibid. May 29/June 8 1688.

FN 371 Ibid.

FN 372 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.

FN 373 Burnet, i. 740.; Life of Prideaux; Citters, June 12/22 15/25 1688. Tanner MS.; Life and Correspondence of Pepys.

FN 374 Sancroft's Narrative, printed from the Tanner MS.

FN 375 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