Volume I Part 32 (1/2)

[Footnote 320: London Gazette, January, 4, 1684-5; Ferguson MS. in Eachard's History, iii. 764; Grey's Narratives; Sprat's True Account, Danvers's Treatise on Baptism; Danvers's Innocency and Truth vindicated; Crosby's History of the English Baptists.]

[Footnote 321: Sprat's True Account; Burnet, i. 634; Wade's Confession, Earl. MS. 6845.---- Lord Howard of Escrick accused Ayloffe of proposing to a.s.sa.s.sinate the Duke of York; but Lord Howard was an abject liar; and this story was not part of his original confession, but was added afterwards by way of supplement, and therefore deserves no credit whatever.]

[Footnote 322: Wade's Confession, Harl. MS. 6845; Lansdowne MS. 1152; Holloway's narrative in the Appendix to Sprat's True Account. Wade owned that Holloway had told nothing but truth.]

[Footnote 323: Sprat's True Account and Appendix, pa.s.sim.]

[Footnote 324: Sprat's True Account and Appendix, Proceedings against Rumbold in the Collection of State Trials; Burnet's Own Times, i. 633; Appendix to Fox's History, No. IV.]

[Footnote 325: Grey's narrative; his trial in the Collection of State Trials; Sprat's True Account.]

[Footnote 326: In the Pepysian Collection is a print representing one of the b.a.l.l.s which About this time William and Mary gave in the Oranje Zaal.]

[Footnote 327: Avaux Neg. January 25, 1685. Letter from James to the Princess of Orange dated January 1684-5, among Birch's Extracts in the British Museum.]

[Footnote 328: Grey's Narrative; Wade's Confession, Lansdowne MS. 1152.]

[Footnote 329: Burnet, i. 542; Wood, Ath. Ox. under the name of Owen; Absalom and Achtophel, part ii.; Eachard, iii. 682, 697; Sprat's True Account, pa.s.sim; Lond. Gaz. Aug. 6,1683; Nonconformist's Memorial; North's Examen, 399.]

[Footnote 330: Wade's Confession, Harl. MS. 6845.]

[Footnote 331: Avaux Neg. Feb. 20, 22, 1685; Monmouth's letter to James from Ringwood.]

[Footnote 332: Boyer's History of King William the Third, 2d edition, 1703, vol. i 160.]

[Footnote 333: Welwood's Memoirs, App. xv.; Burnet, i. 530. Grey told a somewhat different story, but he told it to save his life. The Spanish amba.s.sador at the English court, Don Pedro de Ronquillo, in a letter to the governor of the Low Countries written about this time, sneers at Monmouth for living on the bounty of a fond woman, and hints a very unfounded suspicion that the Duke's pa.s.sion was altogether interested.

”Hallandose hoy tan falto de medios que ha menester trasforma.r.s.e en Amor con Miledi en vista de la ecesidad de poder subsistir.”--Ronquillo to Grana. Mar. 30,/Apr. 9, 1685.]

[Footnote 334: Proceedings against Argyle in the Collection of State Trials, Burnet, i 521; A True and Plain Account of the Discoveries made in Scotland, 1684, The Scotch Mist Cleared; Sir George Mackenzie's Vindication, Lord Fountainhall's Chronological Notes.]

[Footnote 335: Information of Robert Smith in the Appendix to Sprat's True Account.]

[Footnote 336: True and Plain Account of the Discoveries made in Scotland.]

[Footnote 337: Discorsi sopra la prima Deca di t.i.to Livio, lib. ii. cap.

33.]

[Footnote 338: See Sir Patrick Hume's Narrative, pa.s.sim.]

[Footnote 339: Grey's Narrative; Wade's Confession, Harl. MS. 6845.]

[Footnote 340: Burnet, i. 631.]

[Footnote 341: Grey's Narrative.]

[Footnote 342: Le Clerc's Life of Locke; Lord King's Life of Locke; Lord Grenville's Oxford and Locke. Locke must not be confounded with the Anabapist Nicholas Look, whose name was spelled Locke in Grey's Confession, and who is mentioned in the Lansdowne MS. 1152, and in the Buccleuch narrative appended to Mr. Rose's dissertation. I should hardly think it necessary to make this remark, but that the similarity of the two names appears to have misled a man so well acquainted with the history of those times as Speaker Onslow. See his note on Burnet, i, 629.]

[Footnote 343: Wodrow, book iii. chap. ix; London Gazette, May 11, 1685; Barillon, May 11-21.]

[Footnote 344: Register of the Proceedings of the States General, May 5-15, 1685.]

[Footnote 345: This is mentioned in his credentials, dated on the 16th of March, 1684-5.]