The History of England, from the Accession of James II Volume II Part 33

[Footnote 442: Luttrell's Diary, Aug. 8. 1688.]

[Footnote 443: This is told us by three writers who could well remember that time, Kennet, Eachard, and Oldmixon. See also the Caveat against the Whigs.]

[Footnote 444: Barillon, Aug 24/Sept 1 1688; Sept. 3/13 6/16 8/18]

[Footnote 445: Luttrell's Diary, Aug. 27. 1688.]

[Footnote 446: King's State of the Protestants of Ireland; Secret Consults of the Romish Party in Ireland.]

[Footnote 447: Secret Consults of he Romish Party in Ireland.]

[Footnote 448: 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.]

[Footnote 449: 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.]

[Footnote 450: See the Negotiations of the Count of Avaux. It would be almost impossible for me to cite all the pa.s.sages 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.]

[Footnote 451: Professor Von Ranke, Die Romischen Papste, book viii.; Burnet, i. 759.]

[Footnote 452: 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.]

[Footnote 453: 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 promitt.i.t, 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.]

[Footnote 454: Avaux Neg., Aug. 2/12 10/20 11/21 14/24 16/26 17/27 Aug 23/Sept 2 1688.]

[Footnote 455: Ibid., Sept. 4/14 1688.]

[Footnote 456: Burnet, i. 765.; Churchill's letter bears date Aug. 4.

1688.]

[Footnote 457: William to Bentinck, Aug. 17/27 1688.]

[Footnote 458: Memoirs of the Duke of Shrewsbury, 1718.]

[Footnote 459: London Gazette, April 25. 28. 1687.]

[Footnote 460: Secret Consults of the Romish Party in Ireland. This account is strongly confirmed by what Bonrepaux wrote to Seignelay, Sept. 12/22 1687. "Il (Sunderland) ama.s.sera beaucoup d'argent, le roi son maitre lui donnant la plus grande partie de celui qui provient des confiscations on des accommodemens que ceux qui ont encouru des peines font pour obtenir leur grace."]

[Footnote 461: Adda says that Sunderland's terror was visible. Oct 26/Nov 5 1688.]

[Footnote 462: Compare Evelyn's account of her with what the Princess of Denmark wrote about her to the Hague, and with her own letters to Henry Sidney.]

[Footnote 463: Bonrepaux to Seignelay, July 11/21 1688.]

[Footnote 464: See her letters in the Sidney Diary and Correspondence lately published. Mr. Fox, in his copy of Barillon's despatches, marked the 30th of August N.S. 1688, as the date from which it was quite certain that Sunderland was playing false.]

[Footnote 465: Aug 19/29 1688]

[Footnote 466: Sept 4/14 1688]

[Footnote 467: Avaux, July 19/29 July 31/Aug 10 Aug. [11]/21 1688; Lewis to Barillon, Aug. 2/12, 16/26.]

[Footnote 468: Barillon, Aug. 20/30 Aug 23/Sept 2 1688 Adda, Aug 24/Sept 3; Clarke's Life of James, ii. 177. Orig. Mem.]

[Footnote 469: Lewis to Barillon, Sept. 3/13 8/18 11/21 1688.]

[Footnote 470: Avaux, Aug 23/Sept 2, Aug 30/Sept 9 1688.]

[Footnote 471: "Che l'adulazione e la vanita gli avevano tornato il capo"--Adda, Aug 31/Sept 10 1688.]

[Footnote 472: Citters, Sept. 11/21 1688 Avaux, Sept. 17/27 Sept 27/Oct 7 Oct. 3 Wagenaar, book lx.; Sunderland's Apology. It has been often a.s.serted that James declined the help of a French army. The truth is that no such army was offered. Indeed, the French troops would have served James much more effectually by menacing the frontiers of Holland than by crossing the Channel.]

[Footnote 473: Lewis to Barillon, Sept. 20/30 1688.]

[Footnote 474: Avaux, Sept 27/Oct 7 27. Oct. 4/14 1688.]

[Footnote 475: Madame de Sevigne, Oct 24/Nov 3 1688.]

[Footnote 476: Witsen MS. quoted by Wagenaar; Lord Lonsdale's Memoirs; Avaux, Oct. 4/14 5/15 1688. The formal declaration of the States General, dated Oct. 18/28 will be found in the Recueil des Traites, vol.

iv. no. 225.]

[Footnote 477: Abrege de la Vie de Frederic Duc de Schomberg, 1690; Sidney to William, June 30. 1688; Burnet, i. 677.]

[Footnote 478: Burnet, i. 584.; Mackay's Memoirs.]

[Footnote 479: Burnet, i. 775. 780.]

[Footnote 480: Eachard's History of the Revolution, ii. 2.]

[Footnote 481: Pepys's Memoirs relating to the Royal Navy, 1690.

Clarke's Life of James the Second, ii. 186 Orig. Mem.; Adda, Sept 21/Oct 1 Citters, Sept 21/Oct 1]

[Footnote 482: Clarke's Life of James the Second, ii. 186. Orig. Mem.; Adda, Sept 14/Oct 2 Citters, Sept 21/Oct 1]

[Footnote 483: Adda, Sept 28/Oct. 8. 1688. This despatch describes strongly James's dread of an universal defection of his subjects.]

[Footnote 484: All the scanty light which we have respecting this negotiation is derived from Reresby. His informant was a lady whom he does not name, and who certainly was not to be implicitly trusted.]

[Footnote 485: London Gazette, Sept. 24. 27., Oct. 1., 1688.]

[Footnote 486: Tanner MSS.; Burnet, i. 784. Burnet has, I think, confounded this audience with an audience which took place a few weeks later.]

[Footnote 487: London Gazette, Oct. 8. 1688.]

[Footnote 488: Ibid.]

[Footnote 489: Ibid. Oct. 15. 1688; Adda, Oct. 12/22 The Nuncio, though generally an enemy to violent courses, seems to have opposed the restoration of Hough, probably from regard for the interests of Giffard and the other Roman Catholics who were quartered in Magdalene College.

Leyburn declared himself "nel sentimento che fosse stato non spoglio, e che il possesso in cui si trovano ora li Cattolici fosse violento ed illegale, onde non era privar questi di no dritto acquisto, ma rendere agli altri quello che era stato levato con violenza."]