FN 222 For example, "Je crois M. Feversham un tres brave et honeste homme. Mais je doute s'il a assez d'experience diriger une si grande affaire qu'il a sur le bras. Dieu lui donne un succes prompt et heureux. Mais je ne suis pas hors d'inquietude."July 7/17 1685. Again, after he had received the news of the battle of Sedgemoor, "Dieu soit loue du bon succes que les troupes du Roy ont eu contre les rebelles. Je ne doute pas que cette affaire ne soit entierement assoupie, et que le regne du Roy sera heureux, Ce que Dieu veuille." July 10/20FN 223 The treaty will be found in the Recueil des Traites, iv.
No. 209.
FN 224 Burnet, i. 762.
FN 225 Temple's Memoirs.
FN 226 See the poems entitled The Converts and The Delusion.
FN 227 The lines are in the Collection of State Poems.
FN 228 Our information about Wycherly is very scanty; but two things are certain, that in his later years he called himself a Papist, and that he received money from James. I have very little doubt that he was a hired convert.
FN 229 See the article on him in the Biographia Britannica.
FN 230 See James Quin's account of Haines in Davies's Miscellanies; Tom Brown's Works; Lives of Sharpers; Dryden's Epilogue to the Secular Masque.
FN 231 This fact, which escaped the minute researches of Malone, appears from the Treasury Letter Book of 1685.
FN 232 Leeuwen, Dec 25/Jan 4 1685/6.
FN 233 Barillon, - Jan 31/Feb 10 1686/7. "Je crois que, dans le fond, si on ne pouvoit laisser que la religion Anglicane et la Catholique etablies par les loix, le Roy d'Angleterre en seroit bien plus content."FN 234 It will be round in Wodrow, Appendix, vol. ii. No. 129.
FN 235 Wodrow, Appendix, vol. ii. No. 128. 129. 132.
FN 236 Barillon Feb 20/March 10 1686/7; Citters, Feb. 16/23;Reresby's Memoirs Bonrepaux, May 25/June 4 1687.
FN 237 Barillon, March 14/24 1687; Lady Russell to Dr.
Fitzwilliam, April 1.; Burnet, i. 671. 762. The conversation is somewhat differently related in Clarke's Life of James, ii. 204.
But that passage is not part of the King's own memoirs.
FN 238 London Gazette, March 21. 1686/7.
FN 239 Ibid. April 7. 1687.
FN 240 Warrant Book of the Treasury. See particularly the instructions dated March 8, 1687/8 Burnet, i. 715. Reflections on his Majesty's Proclamation for a Toleration in Scotland; Letters containing some Reflections on his Majesty's Declaration for Liberty of Conscience; Apology for the Church of England with a relation to the spirit of Persecution for which she is accused, 1687/8. But it is impossible for me to cite all the pamphlets from which I have formed my notion of the state of parties at this time.
FN 241 Letter to a Dissenter.
FN 242 Wodrow, Appendix, vol. ii. Nos. 132. 134.
FN 243 London Gazette, April 21. 1687 Animadversions on a late paper entituled A Letter to a Dissenter, by H C. (Henry Care), 1687.
FN 244 Lestrange's Answer to a Letter to a Dissenter; Care's Animadversions on A letter to a Dissenter; Dialogue between Harry and Roger; that is to say, Harry Care and Roger Lestrange.
FN 245 The letter was signed T. W. Care says, in his Animadversions, "This Sir Politic T. W., or W. T. for some critics think that the truer reading."FN 246 Ellis Correspondence, March 15. July 27. 1686 Barillon, Feb 28/Mar 10; March 3/13. March 6/16. 1687 Ronquillo, March 9/19. 1687, in the Mackintosh Collection.
FN 247 Wood's Athenae Oxonienses; Observator; Heraclitus Ridens, passim. But Care's own writings furnish the best materials for an estimate of his character.
FN 248 Calamy's Account of the Ministers ejected or silenced after the Restoration, Northamptonshire; Wood's Athenae Oxonienses; Biographia Britannica.
FN 249 State Trials; Samuel Rosewell's Life of Thomas Rosewell, 1718; Calamy's Account.
FN 250 London Gazette, March 15 1685/6; Nichols's Defence of the Church of England; Pierce's Vindication of the Dissenters.
FN 251 The Addresses will be found in the London Gazettes.
FN 252 Calamy's Life of Baxter.
FN 253 Calamy's Life of Howe. The share which the Hampden family had in the matter I learned from a letter of Johnstone of Waristoun, dated June 13 1688.
FN 254 Bunyan's Grace Abounding.
FN 255 Young classes Bunyan's prose with Durfey's poetry. The people of fashion in the Spiritual Quixote rank the Pilgrim's Progress with Jack the Giantkiller. Late in the eighteenth century Cowper did not venture to do more than allude to the great allegorist "I name thee not, lest so despis'd a name Should move a sneer at thy deserved fame."FN 256 The continuation of Bunyan's life appended to his Grace Abounding.
FN 257 Kiffin's Memoirs; Luson's Letter to Brooke, May 11. 1773, in the Hughes Correspondence.
FN 258 See, among other contemporary pamphlets, one entitled a Representation of the threatening Dangers impending over Protestants.
FN 259 Burnet, i. 694.
FN 260 Le Prince d'Orange, qui avoit elude jusqu'alors de faire une reponse positive, dit qu'il ne consentira jamais a la suppression du ces loix qui avoient ete etablies pour le maintien et la surete de la religion Protestante, et que sa conscience ne le lui permettoit point non seulement pour la succession du royaume d'Angleterre, mais meme pour l'empire du monde; en sorte que le roi d'Angleterre est plus aigri contre lui qu'il n'a jamais ete"--Bonrepaux, June 11/21 1687.
FN 261 Burnet, i. 710. Bonrepaux, May 24/June 4. 1687FN 262 Johnstone, Jan. 13. 1688; Halifax's Anatomy of an Equivalent.
FN 263 Burnet, i. 726-73 1.; Answer to the Criminal Letters issued out against Dr. Burnet; Avaux Neg., July 7/17 14/24, July 28/Aug 7 Jan 19/29 1688; Lewis to Barillon, Dec 30 1687/Jan 91688; Johnstone of Waristoun, Feb. 21. 1688; Lady Russell to Dr.
