Volume II Part 31 (1/2)
[Footnote 345: Ibid. Feb. 21. 1688.]
[Footnote 346: Johnstone, Feb. 21. 1688.]
[Footnote 347: Citters, March 20/30 1688.]
[Footnote 348: Ibid. May 1/11 1688.]
[Footnote 349: Citters, May 22/June 1 1688.]
[Footnote 350: Ibid. May 1/11 1688.]
[Footnote 351: Ibid. May 18/28 1688.]
[Footnote 352: Ibid. April 6 1688; Treasury Letter Book, March 14. 1687; Ronquillo, April 16/26.]
[Footnote 353: Citters, May 18/28 1688.]
[Footnote 354: Citters, May 18/28 1688.]
[Footnote 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.]
[Footnote 356: London Gazette, April 30. 1688; Barillon, April 26/May 6]
[Footnote 357: Citters, May 1/11. 1688.]
[Footnote 358: London Gazette, May 7. 1688.]
[Footnote 359: Johnstone May 27. 1688.]
[Footnote 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 a.s.sailed by John Bunyan with a ferocity which nothing can justify, but which the birth and breeding of the honest tinker in some degree excuse.]
[Footnote 361: Johnstone, May 23. 1688. There is a satirical poem on this meeting ent.i.tled the Clerical Cabal.]
[Footnote 362: Clarendon's Diary, May 22. 1688.]
[Footnote 363: Extracts from Tanner MS. in Howell's State Trials; Life of Prideaux; Clarendon's Diary, May 16. 1688.]
[Footnote 364: Clarendon's Diary, May 16 and 17. 1688.]
[Footnote 365: Sancroft's Narrative printed from the Tanner MS.; Citters, May 22/June 1 1688.]
[Footnote 366: Burnet, i. 741; Revolution Politics; Higgins's Short View.]
[Footnote 367: Clarke's Life of James the Second, ii. 155.]
[Footnote 368: Citters, May 22/June 1688. Burnet, i. 740.; and Lord Dartmouth's note; Southey's Life of Wesley.]
[Footnote 369: Citters, May 22/June 1 1688]
[Footnote 370: Ibid. May 29/June 8 1688.]