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Diary, May, 22, 1685.


305 Roger North's Life of Guildford, 218; Bramston's Memoirs.


306 North's Life of Guildford, 228; News from Westminster.


307 Burnet, i. 382; Letter from Lord Conway to Sir George

Rawdon, Dec. 28, 1677. in the Rawdon Papers.


308 London Gazette, May 25, 1685; Evelyn's Diary, May 22, 1685.


309 North's Life of Guildford, 256.


310 Burnet, i. 639; Evelyn's Diary, May 22, 1685; Barillon, May

23,/June 2, and May 25,/June 4, 1685 The silence of the journals

perplexed Mr. Fox ; but it is explained by the circumstance that

Seymour's motion was not seconded.


311 Journals, May 22. Stat. Jac. II. i. 1.


312 Journals, May 26, 27. Sir J. Reresby's Memoirs.


313 Commons' Journals, May 27, 1685.


314 Roger North's Life of Sir Dudley North; Life of Lord

GuiIford, 166; Mr M'Cullough's Literature of Political Economy.


315 Life of Dudley North, 176, Lonsdale's Memoirs, Van Citters,

June 12-22, 1685.


316 Commons' Journals, March 1, 1689.


317 Lords' Journals, March 18, 19, 1679, May 22, 1685.


318 Stat. 5 Geo. IV. c. 46.


319 Clarendon's History of the Rebellion, book xiv.; Burnet's

Own Times, i. 546, 625; Wade's and Ireton's Narratives, Lansdowne

MS. 1152; West's information in the Appendix to Sprat's True

Account.


320 London Gazette, January, 4, 1684-5; Ferguson MS. in

Eachard's History, iii. 764; Grey's Narratives; Sprat's True

Account, Danvers's Treatise on Baptism; Danvers's Innocency and

Truth vindicated; Crosby's History of the English Baptists.


321 Sprat's True Account; Burnet, i. 634; Wade's Confession,

Earl. MS. 6845.


Lord Howard of Escrick accused Ayloffe of proposing to

assassinate the Duke of York; but Lord Howard was an abject liar;

and this story was not part of his original confession, but was

added afterwards by way of supplement, and therefore deserves no

credit whatever.


322 Wade's Confession, Harl. MS. 6845; Lansdowne MS. 1152;

Holloway's narrative in the Appendix to Sprat's True Account.

Wade owned that Holloway had told nothing but truth.


323 Sprat's True Account and Appendix, passim.


324 Sprat's True Account and Appendix, Proceedings against

Rumbold in the Collection of State Trials; Burnet's Own Times, i.

633; Appendix to Fox's History, No. IV.


325 Grey's narrative; his trial in the Collection of State

Trials; Sprat's True Account.


326 In the Pepysian Collection is a print representing one of

the balls which About this time William and Mary gave in the

Oranje Zaal.


327 Avaux Neg. January 25, 1685. Letter from James to the

Princess of Orange dated January 1684-5, among Birch's Extracts

in the British Museum.


328 Grey's Narrative; Wade's Confession, Lansdowne MS. 1152.


329 Burnet, i. 542; Wood, Ath. Ox. under the name of Owen;

Absalom and Achtophel, part ii.; Eachard, iii. 682, 697; Sprat's

True Account, passim; Lond. Gaz. Aug. 6,1683; Nonconformist's

Memorial; North's Examen, 399.


330 Wade's Confession, Harl. MS. 6845.


331 Avaux Neg. Feb. 20, 22, 1685; Monmouth's letter to James

from Ringwood.


332 Boyer's History of King William the Third, 2d edition, 1703,

vol. i 160.


333 Welwood's Memoirs, App. xv.; Burnet, i. 530. Grey told a

somewhat different story, but he told it to save his life. The

Spanish ambassador at the English court, Don Pedro de Ronquillo,

in a letter to the governor of the Low Countries written about

this time, sneers at Monmouth for living on the bounty of a fond

woman, and hints a very unfounded suspicion that the Duke's

passion was altogether interested. "HaIIandose hoy tan falto de

medios que ha menester trasformarse en Amor con Miledi en vista

de la ecesidad de poder subsistir."-Ronquillo to Grana. Mar.

30,/Apr. 9, 1685.


334 Proceedings against Argyle in the Collection of State

Trials, Burnet, i 521; A True and Plain Account of the

Discoveries made in Scotland, 1684, The Scotch Mist Cleared; Sir

George Mackenzie's Vindication, Lord Fountainhall's Chronological

Notes.


335 Information of Robert Smith in the Appendix to Sprat's True

Account.


336 True and Plain Account of the Discoveries made in Scotland.


337 Discorsi sopra la prima Deca di Tito Livio, lib. ii. cap.

33.


338 See Sir Patrick Hume's Narrative, passim.


339 Grey's Narrative; Wade's Confession, Harl. MS. 6845.


340 Burnet, i. 631.


341 Grey's Narrative.


342 Le Clerc's Life of Locke; Lord King's Life of Locke; Lord

Grenville's Oxford and Locke. Locke must not be confounded with

the Anabapist Nicholas Look, whose name was spelled Locke in

Grey's Confession, and who is mentioned in the Lansdowne MS.

1152, and in the Buccleuch narrative appended to Mr. Rose's

dissertation. I should hardly think it necessary to make this

remark, but that the similarity of the two names appears to have

misled a man so well acquainted with the history of those times

as Speaker Onslow. See his note on Burnet, i, 629.


343 Wodrow, book iii. chap. ix; London Gazette, May 11, 1685;

Barillon, May 11-21.


344 Register of the Proceedings of the States General, May 5-15,

1685.


345 This is mentioned in his credentials, dated on the 16th of

March, 1684-5.


346 Bonrepaux to Seignelay, February 4-14, 1686.


347 Avaux Neg. April 30,/May 10, May 1-11, May 5-15, 1685; Sir

Patrick Hume's Narrative; Letter from The Admiralty of Amsterdam

to the States General, dated June 20, 1685; Memorial of Skelton,

delivered to the States General, May 10, 1685.


348 If any person is inclined to suspect that I have exaggerated

the absurdity and ferocity of these men, I would advise him to

read two books, which will convince him that I have rather

softened than overcharged the portrait, the Hind Let Loose, and

Faithful Contendings Displayed.


349 A few words which were in the first five editions have been

omitted in this place. Here and in another passage I had, as Mr.

Aytoun has observed, mistaken the City Guards, which were

commanded by an officer named Graham, for the Dragoons of Graham

of Claverhouse.


350 The authors from whom I have taken the history of Argyle's

expedition are Sir Patrick Hume, who was an eyewitness of what he

related, and Wodrow, who had access to materials of the greatest

value, among which were the Earl's own papers. Wherever there is

a question of veracity between Argyle and Hume, I have no doubt

that Argyle's narrative ought to be followed.


See also Burnet, i. 631, and the life of Bresson, published by

Dr. Mac Crie. The account of the Scotch rebellion in the Life of

James the Second, is a ridiculous romance, not written by the

King himself, nor derived from his papers, but composed by a

Jacobite who did not even take the trouble to look at a map of

the seat of war.


351 Wodrow, III. ix 10; Western Martyrology; Burnet, i. 633;

Fox's History, Appendix iv. I can find no way, except that

indicated in the text, of reconciling Rumbold's denial that he

had ever admitted into his mind the thought of assassination with

his confession that he had himself mentioned his own house as a

convenient place for an attack on the royal brothers. The

distinction which I suppose him to have taken was certainly taken

by another Rye House conspirator, who was, like him, an old

soldier of the Commonwealth, Captain Walcot. On Walcot's trial,

West, the witness for the crown, said, "Captain, you did agree to

be one of those that were to fight the Guards." "What, then, was

the reason." asked Chief Justice Pemberton, "that he would not

kill the King?" "He said," answered West, "that it was a base

thing to kill a naked man, and he would not do it."


352 Wodrow, III. ix. 9.


353 Wade's narrative, Harl, MS. 6845; Burnet, i. 634; Van

Citters's Despatch of Oct. 30,/Nov. 9, 1685; Luttrell's Diary of

the same date.


354 Wodrow, III, ix. 4, and III. ix. 10. Wodrow gives from the

Acts of Council the names of all the prisoners who were

transported, mutilated or branded.


355 Skelton's letter is dated the 7-17th of May 1686. It will be

found, together with a letter of the Schout or High Bailiff of

Amsterdam, in a little volume published a few months later, and

entitled, "Histoire des Evenemens Tragiques d'Angleterre." The

documents inserted in that work are, as far as I have examined

them, given exactly from the Dutch archives, except that

Skelton's French, which was not the purest, is slightly

corrected. See also Grey's Narrative.


Goodenough, on his examination after the battle of Sedgemoor,

said, "The Schout of Amsterdam was a particular friend to this

last design." Lansdowne MS. 1152.


It is not worth while to refute those writers who represent the

Prince of Orange as an accomplice in Monmouth's enterprise. The

circumstance on which they chiefly rely is that the authorities

of Amsterdam took no effectual steps for preventing the

expedition from sailing. This circumstance is in truth the

strongest proof that the expedition was not favoured by William.

No person, not profoundly ignorant of the institutions and

politics of Holland, would hold the Stadtholder answerable for

the proceedings of the heads of the Loevestein party.


356 Avaux Neg. June 7-17, 8-18, 14-24, 1685, Letter of the

Prince of Orange to Lord Rochester, June 9, 1685.


357 Van Citters, June 9-19, June 12-22,1685. The correspondence

of Skelton with the States General and with the Admiralty of

Amsterdam is in the archives at the Hague. Some pieces will be

found in the Evenemens Tragiques d'Angleterre. See also Burnet,

i. 640.


358 Wade's Confession in the Hardwicke Papers; Harl. MS. 6845.


359 See Buyse's evidence against Monmouth and Fletcher in the

Collection of State Trials.


360 Journals of the House of Commons, June 13, 1685; Harl. MS.

6845; Lansdowne MS. 1152.


361 Burnet, i. 641, Goodenough's confession in the Lansdowne MS.

1152. Copies of the Declaration, as originally printed, are very

rare; but there is one in the British Museum.


362 Historical Account of the Life and magnanimous Actions of

the most illustrious Protestant Prince James, Duke of Monmouth,

1683.


363 Wade's Confession, Hardwicke Papers; Axe Papers; Harl. MS.

6845.


364 Harl. MS. 6845.


365 Buyse's evidence in the Collection of State Trials; Burnet i

642; Ferguson's MS. quoted by Eachard.