The History of England, from the Accession of James II Volume II Part 35

[Footnote 535: Reresby's Memoirs; Clarke's. Life of James, ii. 231.

Orig. Mem.]

[Footnote 536: Cibber's Apology History of the Desertion; Luttrell's Diary; Second Collection of Papers, 1688.]

[Footnote 537: Whittle's Diary; History of the Desertion; Luttrell's Diary.]

[Footnote 538: Clarke's Life of James, i. 222. Orig. Mem; Barillon, Nov 21/Dec 1 1688; Sheridan MS.]

[Footnote 539: First Collection of Papers, 1688.]

[Footnote 540: Letter from Middleton to Preston dated Salisbury, Nov.

25. "Villany upon villany," says Middleton, "the last still greater than the former." Clarke's Life of James, ii. 224, 225. Orig. Mem.]

[Footnote 541: History of the Desertion; Luttrell's Diary.]

[Footnote 542: Dartmouth's note on Burnet, i. 643.]

[Footnote 543: Clarendon's Diary, Nov. 26.; Clarke's Life of James, ii.

224.; Prince George's letter to the King has often been printed.]

[Footnote 544: The letter, dated Nov. 18, will be found in Dalrymple.]

[Footnote 545: Clarendon's Diary, Nov. 25, 26. 1688; Citters, Nov 26/Dec 6; Ellis Correspondence, Dec. 19.; d.u.c.h.ess of Marlborough's Vindication; Burnet, i. 792; Compton to the Prince of Orange, Dec. 2. 1688, in Dalrymple. The Bishop's military costume is mentioned in innumerable pamphlets and lampoons.]

[Footnote 546: Dartmouth's note on Burnet, i. 792.; Citters Nov 26/Dec 6 1688; Clarke's Life of James, i. 226. Orig. Mem.; Clarendon's Diary, Nov. 26; Revolution Politics.]

[Footnote 547: Clarke's Life of James, ii. 236. Orig. Mem.; Burnet, i.

794.: Luttrell's Diary; Clarendon's Diary, Nov. 27. 1688; Citters, Nov 27/Dec 7 and Nov 30/Dec 10

Citters evidently had his intelligence from one of the Lords who were present. As the matter is important I will give two short pa.s.sages from his despatches. The King said, "Dat het by na voor hem unmogelyck was to pardoneren persoonen wie so hoog in syn reguarde schuldig stonden, vooral seer uytvarende jegens den Lord Churchill, wien hy hadde groot gemaakt, en nogtans meynde de eenigste oorsake van alle dese desertie en van de retraite van hare Coninglycke Hoogheden te wesen." One of the lords, probably Halifax or Nottingham, "seer hadde geurgeert op de securiteyt van de lords die nu met syn Hoogheyt geengageert staan. Soo hoor ick," says Citters, "dat syn Majesteyt onder anderen soude gesegt hebben; 'Men spreekt al voor de securiteyt voor andere, en niet voor de myne.' Waar op een der Pairs resolut dan met groot respect soude geantwoordt hebben dat, soo syne Majesteyt's wapenen in staat warm om hem te connen mainteneren, dat dan sulk syne securiteyte koude wesen; soo niet, en soo de difficulteyt dan nog to surmonteren was, dat het den moeste geschieden door de meeste condescendance, en hoe meer die was, en hy genegen om aan de natie contentement te geven, dat syne securiteyt ook des to grooter soude wesen."]

[Footnote 548: Letter of the Bishop of St. Asaph to the Prince of Orange, Dec. 17, 1688.]

[Footnote 549: London Gazette, Nov, 29. Dec. [3]. 1688; Clarendon's Diary, Nov. 29, 30.]

[Footnote 550: Barillon, December 1/11 1688.]

[Footnote 551: James to Dartmouth, Nov. 25. 1688. The letters are in Dalrymple.]

[Footnote 552: James to Dartmouth, Dec. 1. 1688.]

[Footnote 553: Luttrell's Diary.]

[Footnote 554: Second Collection of Papers, 1688; Dartmouth's Letter, dated December 3. 1688, will be found in Dalrymple; Clarke's Life of James, ii. 233. Orig. Mem. James accuses Dartmouth of having got up an address from the fleet demanding a Parliament. This is a mere calumny.

The address is one of thanks to the King for having called a Parliament, and was framed before Dartmouth had the least suspicion that His Majesty was deceiving the nation.]

[Footnote 555: Luttrell's Diary.]

[Footnote 556: Adda, Dec. 17. 1688.]

[Footnote 557: The Nuncio says, "Se lo avesse fatto prima di ora, per il Re ne sarebbe stato meglio."]

[Footnote 558: See the Secret History of the Revolution, by Hugh Speke, 1715. In the London Library is a copy of this rare work with a ma.n.u.script note which seems to be in Speke's own hand.]

[Footnote 559: Brand's History of Newcastle; Tickell's History of Hull.]

[Footnote 560: An account of what pa.s.sed at Norwich may still be seen in several collections on the original broadside. See also the Fourth Collection of Papers, 1688.]

[Footnote 561: Clarke's Life of James, ii. 233.; MS. Memoir of the Harley family in the Mackintosh Collection.]

[Footnote 562: Citters, Dec. 9/19 1688. Letter of the Bishop of Bristol to the Prince of Orange, Dec 5. 1688, in Dalrymple.]

[Footnote 563: Citters, Nov 27/Dec 7 1688; Clarendon's Diary, Dec. 11.; Song on Lord Lovelace's entry into Oxford, 1688; Burnet, i. 793.]

[Footnote 564: Clarendon's Diary, Dec. 2, 3, 4, 5. 1688.]

[Footnote 565: Whittles Exact Diary; Eachard's History of the Revelation.]

[Footnote 566: Citters, Nov. 20/30 Dec. 9/19 1688.]

[Footnote 567: Clarendon's Diary, Dec. 6, 7. 1688.]

[Footnote 568: Clarendon's Diary, Dec. 7. 1688.]

[Footnote 569: History of the Desertion; Citters, Dec. 9/19 1688; Exact Diary; Oldmixon, 760.]

[Footnote 570: See a very interesting note on the fifth canto of Sir Walter Scott's Rokeby.]

[Footnote 571: My account of what pa.s.sed at Hungerford is taken from Clarendon's Diary, Dec. 8, 9. 1688; Burnet, i. 794; the Paper delivered to the Prince by the Commissioners, and the Prince's Answer; Sir Patrick Hume's Diary; Citters Dec. 9/19]

[Footnote 572: Clarke's Life of James, ii. 237. Burnet, strange to say, had not heard, or had forgotten, that the prince was brought back to London, i. 796.]

[Footnote 573: Clarke's Life of James, ii. 246.; Pere d'Orleans, Revolutions d'Angleterre, xi.; Madame de Sevigne, Dec. 14/24. 1688; Dangeau, Memoires, Dec. 13/23. As to Lauzun, see the Memoirs of Mademoiselle and of the Duke of St. Simon, and the Characters of Labruyere.]

[Footnote 574: History of the Desertion; Clarke's Life Of James. ii.

251. Orig. Mem.; Mulgrave's Account of the Revolution; Burnet, i. 795]

[Footnote 575: History of the Desertion; Mulgrave's Account of the Revolution; Fachard's History of the Revolution.]

[Footnote 576: London Gazette, Dec. 13. 1688.]

[Footnote 577: Clarke's Life of James, ii. 259.; Mulgrave's Account of the Revolution; Legge Papers in the Mackintosh Collection.]

[Footnote 578: London Gazette, Dec. 13 1688; Barillon, Dec. 14/24.; Citters, same date; Luttrell's Diary; Clarke's Life of James, ii. 256.

Orig. Mem; Ellis Correspondence, Dec. 13.; Consultation of the Spanish Council of State, Jan. 19/29, 1689. It appears that Ronquillo complained bitterly to his government of his losses; "Sirviendole solo de consuelo el haber tenido prevencion de poder consumir El Santisimo."]

[Footnote 579: London Gazette, Dec. 13 1688; Luttrell's Diary; Mulgrave's Account of the Revolution; Consultation of the Spanish Council of State, Jan. 19/29 1689. Something was said about reprisals: but the Spanish council treated the suggestion with contempt. "Habiendo sido este hecho por un furor de pueblo, sin consentimiento del gobierno y antes contra su voluntad, como lo ha mostrado la satisfaccion que le han dado y le han prometido, parece que no hay juicio humano que puede aconsejar que se pase a semejante remedio."]