FN 517 "Halifax a eu une reprimande severe publiquement dans le conseil par le Prince d'Orange pour avoir trop balance."--Avaux to De Croissy, Dublin, June 1689. "his mercurial Wit," says Burnet, ii. 4., "was not well suited with the King's phlegm."FN 518 Clarendon's Diary, Oct. 10 1689; Lords' Journals, Oct. 19.
1689.
FN 519 Commons' Journals, Oct. 24. 1689.
FN 520 Ibid., Nov. 2. 1689.
FN 521 Commons' Journals, Nov. 7. 19., Dec. 30 1689. The rule of the House then was that no petition could be received against the imposition of a tax. This rule was, after a very hard fight, rescinded in 1842. The petition of the Jews was not received, and is not mentioned in the Journals. But something may be learned about it from Narcissus Luttrell's Diary and from Grey's Debates, Nov. 19. 1689, FN 522 James, in the very treatise in which he tried to prove the Pope to be Antichrist, says "For myself, if that were yet the question, I would with all my heart give my consent that the Bishop of Rome should have the first seat." There is a remarkable letter on this subject written by James to Charles and Buckingham, when they were in Spain. Heylyn, speaking of Laud's negotiation with Rome, says: "So that upon the point the Pope was to content himself among us in England with a priority instead of a superiority over other Bishops, and with a primacy instead of a supremacy in those parts of Christendom, which I conceive no man of learning and sobriety would have grudged to grant him,"FN 523 Stat. 1 W & M. sess. 2. c 2.
FN 524 Treasury Minute Book, Nov. 3. 1689.
FN 525 Commons' Journals and Grey's Debates, Nov. 13, 14. 18. 19.
23. 28. 1689.
FN 526 Commons' Journals and Grey's Debates, November 26. and 27.
1689.
FN 527 Commons' Journals, November 28., December 2. 1689.
FN 528 Commons' Journals and Grey's Debates, November 30., December 2 1689.
FN 529 London Gazette, Septemher 2 1689; Observations upon Mr.
Walker's Account of the Siege of Londonderry, licensed October 4.
1689; Narcissus Luttrell's Diary; Mr. J. Mackenzie's Narrative a False Libel, a Defence of Mr. G. Walker written by his Friend in his Absence, 1690.
FN 530 Walker's True Account, 1689; An Apology for the Failures charged on the True Account, 1689; Reflections on the Apology, 1689; A Vindication of the True Account by Walker, 1689;Mackenzie's Narrative, 1690; Mr. Mackenzie's Narrative a False Libel, 1690; Dr. Walker's Invisible Champion foyled by Mackenzie, 1690; Weiwood's Mercurius Reformatus, Dec. 4. and 11 1689. The Oxford editor of Burnet's History expresses his surprise at the silence which the Bishop observes about Walker. In the Burnet MS.
Harl. 6584. there is an animated panegyric on Walker. Why that panegyric does not appear in the History, I am at a loss to explain.
FN 531 Commons' Journals, November 18 and 19. 1689; and Grey's Debates.
FN 532 Wade's Confession, Harl. MS. 6845.
FN 533 See the Preface to the First Edition of his Memoirs, Vevay, 1698.
FN 534 "Colonel Ludlow, an old Oliverian, and one of King Charles the First his Judges, is arrived lately in this kingdom from Switzerland."-Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, September 1689.
FN 535 Third Caveat against the Whigs, 1712.
FN 536 Commons' Journals, November 6. and 8. 1689; Grey's Debates; London Gazette, November 18.
FN 537 "Omme solum forti patria, quia patris." See Addison's Travels. It is a remarkable circumstance that Addison, though a Whig, speaks of Ludlow in language which would better have become a Tory, and sneers at the inscription as cant.
FN 538 Commons' Journals, Nov. 1. 7. 1689.
FN 539 Roger North's Life of Dudley North.
FN 540 Commons' Journals, Oct. 26. 1689.
FN 541 Lords' Journals, October 26. and 27. 1689.
FN 542 Commons' Journals, Oct. 26. 1689.
FN 543 Commons' Journals, Oct. 26. 1689; Wood's Athenae Oxonienses; Dod's Church History, VIII. ii. 3.
FN 544 Commons' Journals, October 28. 5689. The proceedings will be found in the collection of State Trials.
FN 545 Lords' Journals, Nov. 2. and 6. 1689.
FN 546 Lords' Journals, Dec. 20. 1689; Life of Dudley North.
FN 547 The report is in the Lords' Journals, Dec. 20. 1689.
Hampden's examination was on the 18th of November.
FN 548 This, I think, is clear from a letter of Lady Montague to Lady Russell, dated Dec. 23. 1689, three days after the Committee of Murder had reported.
FN 549 Commons' Journals, Dec. 14. 1689; Grey's Debates; Boyer's Life of William.
FN 550 Commons' Journals, Dec. 21.; Grey's Debates; Oldmixon.
FN 551 Commons' Journals, Jan. 2. 1689/90.
FN 552 Thus, I think, must be understood some remarkable words in a letter written by William to Portland, on the day after Sacheverell's bold and unexpected move. William calculates the amount of the supplies, and then says: "S'ils n'y mettent des conditions que vous savez, c'est une bonne affaire: mais les Wigges sont si glorieux d'avoir vaincu qu'ils entreprendront tout."FN 553 "The authority of the chair, the awe and reverence to order, and the due method of debates being irrecoverably lost by the disorder and tumultuousness of the House."--Sir J. Trevor to the King, Appendix to Dalrymple's Memoirs, Part ii. Book 4.
FN 554 Commons' Journals, Jan. 10. 1689/90 I have done my best to frame an account of this contest out of very defective materials.
Burnet's narrative contains more blunders than lines. He evidently trusted to his memory, and was completely deceived by it. My chief authorities are the Journals; Grey's Debates;William's Letters to Portland; the Despatches of Van Citters; a Letter concerning the Disabling Clauses, lately offered to the House of Commons, for regulating Corporations, 1690; The True Friends to Corporations vindicated, in an answer to a letter concerning the Disabling Clauses, 1690; and Some Queries concerning the Election of Members for the ensuing Parliament, 1690. To this last pamphlet is appended a list of those who voted for the Sacheverell Clause. See also Clarendon's Diary, Jan. 10.
