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 10FN 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 2/12FN 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. 6/16FN 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. 1687/8FN 339 Records of the Corporation, quoted in Brand's History of Newcastle. Johnstone, Feb. 21. 1687/8FN 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 6FN 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.
