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[Footnote 793: Monthly Mercuries; London Gazettes of November 3. and 6.

1690.]

[Footnote 794: Van Citters to the States General, Oct. 3/13 1690.]

[Footnote 795: Lords' Journals, Oct. 6. 1690; Commons' Journals, Oct.

8.]

[Footnote 796: I am not aware that this lampoon has ever been printed.

I have seen it only in two contemporary ma.n.u.scripts. It is ent.i.tled The Opening of the Session, 1690.]

[Footnote 797: Commons' Journals, Oct. 9, 10 13, 14. 1690.]

[Footnote 798: Commons' Journals of December, 1690, particularly of Dec.

26. Stat. 2 W. & M. sess 2. C. 11.]

[Footnote 799: Stat. 2 W. and M. sess. 2. c. I. 3, 4.]

[Footnote 800: Burnet, ii. 67. See the journals of both Houses, particularly the Commons' Journals of the 10th of December and the Lords' Journals of the 30th of December and the 1st of January. The bill itself will be found in the archives of the House of Lords.]

[Footnote 801: Lords' Journals, Oct. 30. 1690. The numbers are never given in the Lords' Journals. That the majority was only two is a.s.serted by Ralph, who had, I suppose, some authority which I have not been able to find.]

[Footnote 802: Van Citters to the States General, Nov. 14/24 1690. The Earl of Torrington's speech to the House of Commons, 1710.]

[Footnote 803: Burnet, ii. 67, 68.; Van Citters to the States General, Nov. 22/Dec 1 1690; An impartial Account of some remarkable Pa.s.sages in the Life of Arthur, Earl of Torrington, together with some modest Remarks on the Trial and Acquitment, 1691; Reasons for the Trial of the Earl of Torrington by Impeachment, 1690; The Parable of the Bearbaiting, 1690; The Earl of Torrington's Speech to the House of Commons, 1710.

That Torrington was coldly received by the peers I learned from an article in the Noticias Ordinarias of February 6 1691, Madrid.]

[Footnote 804: In one Whig lampoon of this year are these lines,

”David, we thought, succeeded Saul, When William rose on James's fall; But now King Thomas governs all.”

In another are these lines:

”When Charles did seem to fill the throne, This tyrant Tom made England groan.”

A third says:

”Yorks.h.i.+re Tom was rais'd to honour, For what cause no creature knew; He was false to the royal donor And will be the same to you.”]

[Footnote 805: A Whig poet compares the two Marquesses, as they were often called, and gives George the preference over Thomas.]

”If a Marquess needs must steer us, Take a better in his stead, Who will in your absence cheer us, And has far a wiser head.”]

[Footnote 806: ”A thin, illnatured ghost that haunts the King.”]

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