The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4

244 (return)

[ Burnet, ii. 95. and Onslow's note; Memoires de Saint Simon; Memoires de Dangeau.]

245 (return)

[ Life of James ii. 411, 412.]

246 (return)

[ Memoires de Dangeau; Memoires de Saint Simon. Saint Simon was on the terrace and, young as he was, observed this singular scene with an eye which nothing escaped.]

247 (return)

[ Memoires de Saint Simon; Burnet, ii. 95.; Guardian No. 48. See the excellent letter of Lewis to the Archbishop of Rheims, which is quoted by Voltaire in the Siecle de Louis XIV.]

248 (return)

[ In the Nairne papers printed by Macpherson are two memorials from James urging Lewis to invade England. Both were written in January 1692.]

249 (return)

[ London Gazette, Feb. 15. 1691/2]

250 (return)

[ Memoires de Berwick; Burnet, ii. 92.; Life of James, ii. 478. 491.]

251 (return)

[ History of the late Conspiracy, 1693.]

252 (return)

[ Life of James, ii. 479. 524. Memorials furnished by Ferguson to Holmes in the Nairne Papers.]

253 (return)

[ Life of James, ii. 474.]

254 (return)

[ See the Monthly Mercuries of the spring of 1692.]

255 (return)

[ Narcissus Luttrell's Diary for April and May 1692; London Gazette, May 9. and 12.]

256 (return)

[ Sheridan MS.; Life of James, ii. 492.]

257 (return)

[ Life of James, ii. 488.]

258 (return)

[ James told Sheridan that the Declaration was written by Melfort. Sheridan MS.]

259 (return)

[ A Letter to a Friend concerning a French Invasion to restore the late King James to his Throne, and what may be expected from him should he be successful in it, 1692; A second Letter to a Friend concerning a French Invasion, in which the Declaration lately dispersed under the Title of His Majesty's most gracious Declaration to all his loving Subjects, commanding their Assistance against the P. of O. and his Adherents, is entirely and exactly published according to the dispersed Copies, with some short Observations upon it, 1692; The Pretences of the French Invasion examined, 1692; Reflections on the late King James's Declaration, 1692. The two Letters were written, I believe, by Lloyd Bishop of Saint Asaph. Sheridan says, "The King's Declaration pleas'd none, and was turn'd into ridicule burlesque lines in England." I do not believe that a defence of this unfortunate Declaration is to be found in any Jacobite tract. A virulent Jacobite writer, in a reply to Dr. Welwood, printed in 1693, says, "As for the Declaration that was printed last year... I assure you that it was as much misliked by many, almost all, of the King's friends, as it can be exposed by his enemies."]

260 (return)

[ Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, April 1692.]

261 (return)

[ Sheridan MS.; Memoires de Dangeau.]

262 (return)

[ London Gazette, May 12. 16. 1692; Gazette de Paris, May 31. 1692.]

263 (return)

[ London Gazette, April 28. 1692]

264 (return)

[ Ibid. May 2. 5. 12. 16.]

265 (return)

[ London Gazette, May 16. 1692; Burchett.]

266 (return)

[ Narcissus Luttrell's Diary; London Gazette, May 19. 1692.]

267 (return)

[ Russell's Letter to Nottingham, May 20. 1692, in the London Gazette of May 23.; Particulars of Another Letter from the Fleet published by authority; Burchett; Burnet, ii. 93.; Life of James, ii. 493, 494.; Narcissus Luttrell's Diary; Memoires de Berwick. See also the contemporary ballad on the battle one of the best specimens of English street poetry, and the Advice to a Painter, 1692.]

268 (return)

[ See Delaval's Letter to Nottingham, dated Cherburg, May 22., in the London Gazette of May 26.]

269 (return)

[ London Gaz., May 26. 1692; Burchett's Memoirs of Transactions at Sea; Baden to the States General, May 24/June 3; Life of James, ii. 494; Russell's Letters in the Commons' Journals of Nov. 28. 1692; An Account of the Great Victory, 1692; Monthly Mercuries for June and July 1692; Paris Gazette, May 28/June 7; Van Almonde's despatch to the States General, dated May 24/June 3. 1692. The French official account will be found in the Monthly Mercury for July. A report drawn up by Foucault, Intendant of the province of Normandy, will be found in M. Capefigue's Louis XIV.]

270 (return)

[ An Account of the late Great Victory, 1692; Monthly Mercury for June; Baden to the States General, May 24/ June 3; Narcissus Luttrell's Diary.]

271 (return)

[ London Gazette, June 2. 1692; Monthly Mercury; Baden to the States General, June 14/24. Narcissus Luttrell's Diary.]

272 (return)

[ Narcissus Luttrell's Diary; Monthly Mercury.]

273 (return)

[ London Gazette, June 9.; Baden to the States General, June 7/17]

274 (return)

[ Baden to the States General, June. 3/13]

275 (return)

[ Baden to the States General, May 24/June 3; Narcissus Luttrell's Diary.]

276 (return)

[ An Account of the late Great Victory, 1692; Narcissus Luttrell's Diary.]

277 (return)

[ Baden to the States General, June 7/17. 1692.]

278 (return)

[ Narcissus Luttrell's Diary.]

279 (return)

[ I give one short sentence as a specimen: "O fie that ever it should be said that a clergyman have committed such durty actions!"]

280 (return)

[ Gutch, Collectanea Curiosa.]

281 (return)

[ My account of this plot is chiefly taken from Sprat's Relation of the late Wicked Contrivance of Stephen Blackhead and Robert Young, 1692. There are very few better narratives in the language.]

282 (return)

[ Baden to the States General, Feb. 14/24 1693.]

283 (return)

[ Postman, April 13. and 20. 1700; Postboy, April 18.; Flying Post, April 20.]

284 (return)

[ London Gazette, March 14. 1692.]

285 (return)

[ The Swedes came, it is true, but not till the campaign was over. London Gazette, Sept, 10 1691,]

286 (return)

[ William to Heinsius March 14/24. 1692.]

287 (return)

[ William to Heinsius, Feb. 2/12 1692.]

288 (return)

[ Ibid. Jan 12/22 1692.]

289 (return)

[ Ibid. Jan. 19/29. 1692.]

290 (return)

[ Burnet, ii. 82 83.; Correspondence of William and Heinsius, passim.]

291 (return)

[ Memoires de Torcy.]

292 (return)

[ William to Heinsius, Oct 28/Nov 8 1691.]

293 (return)

[ Ibid. Jan. 19/29. 1692.]

294 (return)

[ His letters to Heinsius are full of this subject.]

295 (return)

[ See the Letters from Rome among the Nairne Papers. Those in 1692 are from Lytcott; those in 1693 from Cardinal Howard; those in 1694 from Bishop Ellis; those in 1695 from Lord Perth. They all tell the same story.]

296 (return)

[ William's correspondence with Heinsius; London Gazette, Feb. 4. 1691. In a pasquinade published in 1693, and entitled "La Foire d'Ausbourg, Ballet Allegorique," the Elector of Saxony is introduced saying,

"Moy, je diray naivement, Qu'une jartiere d'Angleterre Feroit tout Mon empressement; Et je ne vois rien sur la terre Ou je trouve plus d'agrement."]

297 (return)

[ William's correspondence with Heinsius. There is a curious account of Schoening in the Memoirs of Count Dohna.]

298 (return)

[ Burnet, ii. 84.]

299 (return)

[ Narcissus Luttrell's Diary.]

300 (return)

[ Monthly Mercuries of January and April 1693; Burnet, ii. 84. In the Burnet MS. Hail. 6584, is a warm eulogy on the Elector of Bavaria. When the MS. was written he was allied with England against France. In the History, which was prepared for publication when he was allied with France against England, the eulogy is omitted.]

301 (return)

[ "Nec pluribus impar."]

302 (return)

[ Memoires de Saint Simon; Dangeau; Racine's Letters, and Narrative entitled Relation de ce qui s'est passe au Siege de Namur; Monthly Mercury, May 1692.]

303 (return)

[ Memoires de Saint Simon; Racine to Boileau, May 21. 1692.]

304 (return)

[ Monthly Mercury for June; William to Heinsius May 26/ June 5 1692.]

305 (return)

[ William to Heinsius, May 26/June 5 1692.]

306 (return)

[ Monthly Mercuries of June and July 1692; London Gazettes of June; Gazette de Paris; Memoires de Saint Simon; Journal de Dangeau; William to Heinsius, May 30/June 9 June 2/12 June 11/21; Vernon's Letters to Colt, printed in Tindal's History; Racine's Narrative, and Letters to Boileau of June 15. and 24.]

307 (return)

[ Memoires de Saint Simon.]

308 (return)

[ London Gazette, May 30. 1692; Memoires de Saint Simon; Journal de Dangeau; Boyer's History of William III.]

309 (return)

[ Memoires de Saint Simon; Voltaire, Siecle de Louis XIV. Voltaire speaks with a contempt which is probably just of the account of this affair in the Causes Celebres. See also the Letters of Madame de Sevigne during the months of January and February 1680. In several English lampoons Luxemburg is nicknamed Aesop, from his deformity, and called a wizard, in allusion to his dealings with La Voisin. In one Jacobite allegory he is the necromancer Grandorsio. In Narcissus Luttrell's Diary for June 1692 he is called a conjuror. I have seen two or three English caricatures of Luxemburg's figure.]

310 (return)

[ Memoires de Saint Simon; Memoires de Villars; Racine to Boileau, May 21. 1692.]

311 (return)

[ Narcissus Luttrell, April 28. 1692.]

312 (return)

[ London Gazette Aug. 4. 8. 11. 1692; Gazette de Paris, Aug. 9. 16.; Voltaire, Siecle de Louis XIV.; Burnet, ii. 97; Memoires de Berwick; Dykvelt's Letter to the States General dated August 4. 1692. See also the very interesting debate which took place in the House of Commons on Nov. 21. 1692. An English translation of Luxemburg's very elaborate and artful despatch will be found in the Monthly Mercury for September 1692. The original has recently been printed in the new edition of Dangeau. Lewis pronounced it the best despatch that he had ever seen. The editor of the Monthly Mercury maintains that it was manufactured at Paris. "To think otherwise," he says, "is mere folly; as if Luxemburg could be at so much leisure to write such a long letter, more like a pedant than a general, or rather the monitor of a school, giving an account to his master how the rest of the boys behaved themselves." In the Monthly Mercury will be found also the French official list of killed and wounded. Of all the accounts of the battle that which seems to me the best is in the Memoirs of Feuquieres. It is illustrated by a map. Feuquieres divides his praise and blame very fairly between the generals. The traditions of the English mess tables have been preserved by Sterne, who was brought up at the knees of old soldiers of William. "'There was Cutts's' continued the Corporal, clapping the forefinger of his right hand upon the thumb of his left, and counting round his hand; 'there was Cutts's, Mackay's Angus's, Graham's and Leven's, all cut to pieces; and so had the English Lifeguards too, had it not been for some regiments on the right, who marched up boldly to their relief, and received the enemy's fire in their faces before any one of their own platoons discharged a musket. They'll go to heaven for it,' added Trim."]

313 (return)

[ Voltaire, Siecle de Louis XIV.]

314 (return)

[ Langhorne, the chief lay agent of the Jesuits in England, always, as he owned to Tillotson, selected tools on this principle. Burnet, i. 230.]

315 (return)

[ I have taken the history of Grandval's plot chiefly from Grandval's own confession. I have not mentioned Madame de Maintenon, because Grandval, in his confession, did not mention her. The accusation brought against her rests solely on the authority of Dumont. See also a True Account of the horrid Conspiracy against the Life of His most Sacred Majesty William III. 1692; Reflections upon the late horrid Conspiracy contrived by some of the French Court to murder His Majesty in Flanders 1692: Burnet, ii. 92.; Vernon's letters from the camp to Colt, published by Tindal; the London Gazette, Aug, 11. The Paris Gazette contains not one word on the subject,—a most significant silence.]

316 (return)

[ London Gazette, Oct. 20. 24. 1692.]

317 (return)

[ See his report in Burchett.]

318 (return)

[ London Gazette, July 28. 1692. See the resolutions of the Council of War in Burchett. In a letter to Nottingham, dated July 10, Russell says, "Six weeks will near conclude what we call summer." Lords Journals, Dec. 19. 1692.]

319 (return)

[ Monthly Mercury, Aug. and Sept. 1692.]

320 (return)

[ Evelyn's Diary, July 25. 1692; Burnet, ii. 94, 95., and Lord Dartmouth's Note. The history of the quarrel between Russell and Nottingham will be best learned from the Parliamentary Journals and Debates of the Session of 1692/3.]

321 (return)

[ Commons' Journals, Nov. 19. 1692; Burnet, ii. 95.; Grey's Debates, Nov. 21. 1692; Paris Gazettes of August and September; Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, Sept.]

322 (return)

[ See Bart's Letters of Nobility, and the Paris Gazettes of the autumn of 1692.]

323 (return)

[ Memoires de Du Guay Trouin.]

324 (return)

[ London Gazette, Aug. 11. 1692; Evelyn's Diary, Aug. 10.; Monthly Mercury for September; A Full Account of the late dreadful Earthquake at Port Royal in Jamaica, licensed Sept. 9. 1692.]

325 (return)

[ Evelyn's Diary, June 25. Oct. 1. 1690; Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, June 1692, May 1693; Monthly Mercury, April, May, and June 1693; Tom Brown's Description of a Country Life, 1692.]

326 (return)

[ Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, Nov. 1692.]

327 (return)

[ See, for example, the London Gazette of Jan. 12. 1692]

328 (return)

[ Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, Dec. 1692.]

329 (return)

[ Ibid. Jan. 1693.]

330 (return)

[ Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, July 1692.]

331 (return)

[ Evelyn's Diary, Nov. 20. 1692: Narcissus Luttrell's Diary; London Gazette, Nov. 24.; Hop to the Greffier of the States General, Nov. 18/28]

332 (return)

[ London Gazette, Dec. 19. 1692.]

333 (return)

[ Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, Dec. 1692.]

334 (return)

[ Ibid. Nov. 1692.]

335 (return)

[ Ibid. August 1692.]

336 (return)

[ Hop to the Greffier of the States General, Dec 23/Jan 2 1693. The Dutch despatches of this year are filled with stories of robberies.]

337 (return)

[ Hop to the Greffier of the States General, Dec 23/Jan 2 1693; Historical Records of the Queen's Bays, published by authority; Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, Nov. 15.]

338 (return)

[ Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, Dee. 22.]

339 (return)

[ Ibid. Dec. 1692; Hop, Jan. 3/13 Hop calls Whitney, "den befaamsten roover in Engelandt."]

340 (return)

[ London Gazette January 2. 1692/3.]

341 (return)

[ Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, Jan. 1692/3.]

342 (return)

[ Ibid. Dec. 1692.]

343 (return)

[ Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, January and February; Hop Jan 31/Feb 10 and Feb 3/13 1693; Letter to Secretary Trenchard, 1694; New Court Contrivances or more Sham Plots still, 1693.]

344 (return)

[ Lords' and Commons' Journals, Nov. 4., Jan. 1692.]

345 (return)

[ Commons' Journals, Nov. 10 1692.]

346 (return)

[ See the Lords' Journals from Nov. 7. to Nov. 18. 1692; Burnet, ii. 102. Tindall's account of these proceedings was taken from letters addressed by Warre, Under Secretary of State, to Colt, envoy at Hanover. Letter to Mr. Secretary Trenchard, 1694.]

347 (return)

[ Lords' Journals, Dec. 7.; Tindal, from the Colt Papers; Burnet, ii. 105.]

348 (return)

[ Grey's Debates, Nov. 21. and 23. 1692.]

349 (return)

[ Grey's Debates, Nov. 21. 1692; Colt Papers in Tindal.]

350 (return)

[ Tindal, Colt Papers; Commons' Journals, Jan. 11. 1693.]

351 (return)

[ Colt Papers in Tindal; Lords' Journals from Dec. 6. to Dec. 19. 1692; inclusive,]

352 (return)

[ As to the proceedings of this day in the House of Commons, see the Journals, Dec. 20, and the letter of Robert Wilmot, M.P. for Derby, to his colleague Anchitel Grey, in Grey's Debates.]

353 (return)

[ Commons' Journals, Jan. 4. 1692/3.]

354 (return)

[ Colt Papers in Tindal; Commons' Journals, Dec. 16. 1692, Jan. 11 1692; Burnet ii. 104.]

355 (return)

[ The peculiar antipathy of the English nobles to the Dutch favourites is mentioned in a highly interesting note written by Renaudot in 1698, and preserved among the Archives of the French Foreign Office.]

356 (return)

[ Colt Papers in Tindal; Lords' Journals, Nov. 28. and 29. 1692, Feb. 18. and 24. 1692/3.]

357 (return)

[ Grey's Debates, Nov 18. 1692; Commons' Journals, Nov. 18., Dec. 1. 1692.]

358 (return)

[ See Cibber's Apology, and Mountford's Greenwich Park.]

359 (return)

[ See Cibber's Apology, Tom Brown's Works, and indeed the works of every man of wit and pleasure about town.]

360 (return)

[ The chief source of information about this case is the report of the trial, which will be found in Howell's Collection. See Evelyn's Diary, February 4. 1692/3. I have taken some circumstances from Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, from a letter to Sancroft which is among the Tanner MSS in the Bodleian Library, and from two letters addressed by Brewer to Wharton, which are also in the Bodleian Library.]

361 (return)

[ Commons' Journals, Nov. 14. 1692.]

362 (return)

[ Commons' Journals of the Session, particularly of Nov. 17., Dec. 10., Feb. 25., March 3.; Colt Papers in Tindal.]

363 (return)

[ Commons' Journals, Dec. 10.; Tindal, Colt Papers.]

364 (return)

[ See Coke's Institutes, part iv. chapter 1. In 1566 a subsidy was 120,000L.; in 1598, 78,000L.; when Coke wrote his Institutes, about the end of the reign of James I. 70,000L. Clarendon tells us that, in 1640, twelve subsidies were estimated at about 600,000L.]

365 (return)

[ See the old Land Tax Acts, and the debates on the Land Tax Redemption Bill of 1798.]

366 (return)

[ Lords' Journals Jan. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20.; Commons' Journals, Jan. 17, 18. 20. 1692; Tindal, from the Colt Papers; Burnet, ii. 104, 105. Burnet has used an incorrect expression, which Tindal, Ralph and others have copied. He says that the question was whether the Lords should tax themselves. The Lords did not claim any right to alter the amount of taxation laid on them by the bill as it came up to them. They only demanded that their estates should be valued, not by the ordinary commissioners, but by special commissioners of higher rank.]

367 (return)

[ Commons' Journals, Dec. 2/12. 1692,]

368 (return)

[ For this account of the origin of stockjobbing in the City of London I am chiefly indebted to a most curious periodical paper, entitled, "Collection for the Improvement of Husbandry and Trade, by J. Houghton, F.R.S." It is in fact a weekly history of the commercial speculations of that time. I have looked through the files of several years. In No. 33., March 17. 1693, Houghton says: "The buying and selling of Actions is one of the great trades now on foot. I find a great many do not understand the affair." On June 13. and June 22. 1694, he traces the whole progress of stockjobbing. On July 13. of the same year he makes the first mention of time bargains. Whoever is desirous to know more about the companies mentioned in the text may consult Houghton's Collection and a pamphlet entitled Anglia Tutamen, published in 1695.]

369 (return)

[ Commons' Journals; Stat. 4 W. & M. c. 3.]

370 (return)

[ See a very remarkable note in Hume's History of England, Appendix III.]

371 (return)

[ Wealth of Nations, book v. chap. iii.]

372 (return)

[ Wesley was struck with this anomaly in 1745. See his Journal.]

373 (return)

[ Pepys, June 10. 1668.]

374 (return)

[ See the Politics, iv. 13.]

375 (return)

[ The bill will be found among the archives of the House of Lords.]

376 (return)

[ Lords' Journals, Jan. 3. 1692/3.]

377 (return)

[ Introduction to the Copies and Extracts of some Letters written to and from the Earl of Danby, now Duke of Leeds, published by His Grace's Direction, 1710.]

378 (return)

[ Commons' Journals; Grey's Debates. The bill itself is among the archives of the House of Lords.]

379 (return)

[ Dunton's Life and Errors; Autobiography of Edmund Bohun, privately printed in 1853. This autobiography is, in the highest degree, curious and interesting.]

380 (return)

[ Vox Cleri, 1689.]

381 (return)

[ Bohun was the author of the History of the Desertion, published immediately after the Revolution. In that work he propounded his favourite theory. "For my part," he says, "I am amazed to see men scruple the submitting to the present King; for, if ever man had a just cause of war, he had; and that creates a right to the thing gained by it. The King by withdrawing and disbanding his army yielded him the throne; and if he had, without any more ceremony, ascended it, he had done no more than all other princes do on the like occasions."]

382 (return)

[ Character of Edmund Bohun, 1692.]

383 (return)

[ Dryden, in his Life of Lucian, speaks in too high terms of Blount's abilities. But Dryden's judgment was biassed; for Blount's first work was a pamphlet in defence of the Conquest of Granada.]

384 (return)

[ See his Appeal from the Country to the City for the Preservation of His Majesty's Person, Liberty, Property, and the Protestant Religion.]

385 (return)

[ See the article on Apollonius in Bayle's Dictionary. I say that Blount made his translation from the Latin; for his works contain abundant proofs that he was not competent to translate from the Greek.]

386 (return)

[ See Gildon's edition of Blount's Works, 1695.]

387 (return)

[ Wood's Athenae Oxonienses under the name Henry Blount (Charles Blount's father); Lestrange's Observator, No. 290.]

388 (return)

[ This piece was reprinted by Gildon in 1695 among Blount's Works.]

389 (return)

[ That the plagiarism of Blount should have been detected by few of his contemporaries is not wonderful. But it is wonderful that in the Biographia Britannica his just Vindication should be warmly extolled, without the slightest hint that every thing good in it is stolen. The Areopagitica is not the only work which he pillaged on this occasion. He took a noble passage from Bacon without acknowledgment.]

390 (return)

[ I unhesitatingly attribute this pamphlet to Blount, though it was not reprinted among his works by Gildon. If Blount did not actually write it he must certainly have superintended the writing. That two men of letters, acting without concert, should bring out within a very short time two treatises, one made out of one half of the Areopagitica and the other made out of the other half, is incredible. Why Gildon did not choose to reprint the second pamphlet will appear hereafter.]