Volume II Part 35 (2/2)

[Footnote 556: Adda, Dec. 17. 1688.]

[Footnote 557: The Nuncio says, ”Se lo avesse fatto prima di ora, per il Re ne sarebbe stato meglio.”]

[Footnote 558: See the Secret History of the Revolution, by Hugh Speke, 1715. In the London Library is a copy of this rare work with a ma.n.u.script note which seems to be in Speke's own hand.]

[Footnote 559: Brand's History of Newcastle; Tickell's History of Hull.]

[Footnote 560: An account of what pa.s.sed at Norwich may still be seen in several collections on the original broadside. See also the Fourth Collection of Papers, 1688.]

[Footnote 561: Clarke's Life of James, ii. 233.; MS. Memoir of the Harley family in the Mackintosh Collection.]

[Footnote 562: Citters, Dec. 9/19 1688. Letter of the Bishop of Bristol to the Prince of Orange, Dec 5. 1688, in Dalrymple.]

[Footnote 563: Citters, Nov 27/Dec 7 1688; Clarendon's Diary, Dec. 11.; Song on Lord Lovelace's entry into Oxford, 1688; Burnet, i. 793.]

[Footnote 564: Clarendon's Diary, Dec. 2, 3, 4, 5. 1688.]

[Footnote 565: Whittles Exact Diary; Eachard's History of the Revelation.]

[Footnote 566: Citters, Nov. 20/30 Dec. 9/19 1688.]

[Footnote 567: Clarendon's Diary, Dec. 6, 7. 1688.]

[Footnote 568: Clarendon's Diary, Dec. 7. 1688.]

[Footnote 569: History of the Desertion; Citters, Dec. 9/19 1688; Exact Diary; Oldmixon, 760.]

[Footnote 570: See a very interesting note on the fifth canto of Sir Walter Scott's Rokeby.]

[Footnote 571: My account of what pa.s.sed at Hungerford is taken from Clarendon's Diary, Dec. 8, 9. 1688; Burnet, i. 794; the Paper delivered to the Prince by the Commissioners, and the Prince's Answer; Sir Patrick Hume's Diary; Citters Dec. 9/19]

[Footnote 572: Clarke's Life of James, ii. 237. Burnet, strange to say, had not heard, or had forgotten, that the prince was brought back to London, i. 796.]

[Footnote 573: Clarke's Life of James, ii. 246.; Pere d'Orleans, Revolutions d'Angleterre, xi.; Madame de Sevigne, Dec. 14/24. 1688; Dangeau, Memoires, Dec. 13/23. As to Lauzun, see the Memoirs of Mademoiselle and of the Duke of St. Simon, and the Characters of Labruyere.]

[Footnote 574: History of the Desertion; Clarke's Life Of James. ii.

251. Orig. Mem.; Mulgrave's Account of the Revolution; Burnet, i. 795]

[Footnote 575: History of the Desertion; Mulgrave's Account of the Revolution; Fachard's History of the Revolution.]

[Footnote 576: London Gazette, Dec. 13. 1688.]

[Footnote 577: Clarke's Life of James, ii. 259.; Mulgrave's Account of the Revolution; Legge Papers in the Mackintosh Collection.]

[Footnote 578: London Gazette, Dec. 13 1688; Barillon, Dec. 14/24.; Citters, same date; Luttrell's Diary; Clarke's Life of James, ii. 256.

Orig. Mem; Ellis Correspondence, Dec. 13.; Consultation of the Spanish Council of State, Jan. 19/29, 1689. It appears that Ronquillo complained bitterly to his government of his losses; ”Sirviendole solo de consuelo el haber tenido prevencion de poder consumir El Santisimo.”]

[Footnote 579: London Gazette, Dec. 13 1688; Luttrell's Diary; Mulgrave's Account of the Revolution; Consultation of the Spanish Council of State, Jan. 19/29 1689. Something was said about reprisals: but the Spanish council treated the suggestion with contempt. ”Habiendo sido este hecho por un furor de pueblo, sin consentimiento del gobierno y antes contra su voluntad, como lo ha mostrado la satisfaccion que le han dado y le han prometido, parece que no hay juicio humano que puede aconsejar que se pase a semejante remedio.”]

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