FN 559 Monthly Mercury for January 1695. An orator who pronounced an eulogium on the Queen at Utrecht was so absurd as to say that she spent her last breath in prayers for the prosperity of the United Provinces:--"Valeant et Batavi;"--these are her last words--"sint incolumes; sint florentes; sint beati; stet in sternum, stet immota praeclarissima illorum civitas hospitium aliquando mihi gratissimum, optime de me meritum." See also the orations of Peter Francius of Amsterdam, and of John Ortwinius of Delft.
FN 560 Journal de Dangeau; Memoires de Saint Simon.
FN 561 Saint Simon; Dangeau; Monthly Mercury for January 1695.
FN 562 L'Hermitage, Jan. 1/11. 1695; Vernon to Lord Lexington Jan. I. 4.; Portland to Lord Lexington, Jan 15/25; William to Heinsius, Jan 22/Feb 1FN 563 See the Commons' Journals of Feb. 11, April 12. and April 27., and the Lords' Journals of April 8. and April is. 1695.
Unfortunately there is a hiatus in the Commons' Journal of the 12th of April, so that it is now impossible to discover whether there was a division on the question to agree with the amendment made by the Lords.
FN 564 L'Hermitage, April 10/20. 1695; Burnet, ii. 149.
FN 565 An Essay upon Taxes, calculated for the present Juncture of Affairs, 1693.
FN 566 Commons' Journals, Jan. 12 Feb. 26. Mar. 6.; A Collection of the Debates and Proceedings in Parliament in 1694 and 1695upon the Inquiry into the late Briberies and Corrupt Practices, 1695; L'Hermitage to the States General, March 8/18; Van Citters, Mar. 15/25; L'Hermitage says "Si par cette recherche la chambre pouvoit remedier au desordre qui regne, elle rendroit un service tres utile et tres agreable au Roy."FN 567 Commons' Journals, Feb. 16, 1695; Collection of the Debates and Proceedings in Parliament in 1694 and 1695; Life of Wharton; Burnet, ii. 144.
FN 568 Speaker Onslow's note on Burnet ii. 583.; Commons'.
Journals, Mar 6, 7. 1695. The history of the terrible end of this man will be found in the pamphlets of the South Sea year.
FN 569 Commons' Journals, March 8. 1695; Exact Collection of Debates and Proceedings in Parliament in 1694 and 1695;L'Hermitage, March 8/18.
FN 570 Exact Collection of Debates.
FN 571 L'Hermitage, March 8/18. 1695. L'Hermitage's narrative is confirmed by the journals, March 7. 1694/5. It appears that just before the committee was appointed, the House resolved that letters should not be delivered out to members during a sitting.
FN 572 L'Hermitage, March 19/29 1695.
FN 573 Birch's Life of Tillotson.
FN 574 Commons' Journals, March 12 13, 14 15, 16, 1694/5; Vernon to Lexington, March 15.; L'Hermitage, March 15/25.
FN 575 On vit qu'il etoit impossible de le poursuivre en justice, chacun toutefois demeurant convaincu que c'etoit un marche fait a la main pour lui faire present de la somme de 10,000l et qu'il avoit ete plus habile que les autres novices que n'avoient pas su faire si finement leure affaires.-- L'Hermitage, March 29/April 8; Commons' Journals, March 12.; Vernon to Lexington, April 26.;Burnet, ii. 145.
FN 576 In a poem called the Prophecy (1703), is the line "when Seymour scorns saltpetre pence."In another satire is the line "Bribed Seymour bribes accuses."FN 577 Commons' Journals from March 26. to April 8. 1695.
FN 578 L'Hermitage, April 10/20 1695.
FN 579 Exact Collection of Debates and Proceedings.
FN 580 L'Hermitage, April 30/May 10 1695; Portland to Lexington, April 23/May 3FN 581 L'Hermitage (April 30/May 10 1695) justly remarks, that the way in which the money was sent back strengthened the case against Leeds.
FN 582 There can, I think, be no doubt, that the member who is called D in the Exact Collection was Wharton.
FN 583 As to the proceedings of this eventful day, April 27.
1695, see the Journals of the two Houses, and the Exact Collection.
FN 584 Exact Collection; Lords' Journals, May 3. 1695; Commons'.
Journals, May 2, 3.; L'Hermitage, May 3/13.; London Gazette, May 13.
FN 585 L'Hermitage, May 10/20. 1695; Vernon to Shrewsbury, June 22. 1697.
FN 586 London Gazette, May 6. 1695.
FN 587 Letter from Mrs. Burnet to the Duchess of Marlborough, 1704, quoted by Coxe; Shrewsbury to Russell, January 24. 1695;Burnett, ii. 149.
FN 588 London Gazette April 8. 15. 29. 1695.
FN 589 Shrewsbury to Russell, January 24. 1695; Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, FN 590 De Thou, liii. xcvi.
FN 591 Life of James ii. 545., Orig. Mem. Of course James does not use the word assassination. He talks of the seizing and carrying away of the Prince of Orange.
FN 592 Every thing bad that was known or rumoured about Porter came out on the State Trials of 1696.
FN 593 As to Goodman see the evidence on the trial of Peter Cook;Cleverskirke, Feb 28/March 9 1696; L'Hermitage, April 10/20 1696;and a pasquinade entitled the Duchess of Cleveland's Memorial.
FN 594 See the preamble to the Commission of 1695.
FN 595 The Commission will be found in the Minutes of the Parliament.
FN 596 Act. Parl. Scot., May 21. 1695; London Gazette, May 30.
FN 597 Act. Parl. Scot. May 23. 1695.
FN 598 Ibid. June 14. 18. 20. 1695; London Gazette, June 27.
FN 599 Burnet, ii. 157.; Act. Parl., June 10 1695.
FN 600 Act. Parl., June 26. 1695; London Gazette, July 4.
FN 601 There is an excellent portrait of Villeroy in St. Simon's Memoirs.
FN 602 Some curious traits of Trumball's character will be found in Pepys's Tangier Diary.
FN 603 Postboy, June 13., July 9. 11., 1695; Intelligence Domestic and Foreign, June 14.; Pacquet Boat from Holland and Flanders, July 9.
FN 604 Vaudemont's Despatch and William's Answer are in the Monthly Mercury for July 1695.
FN 605 See Saint Simon's Memoirs and his note upon Dangeau.
FN 606 London Gazette July 22. 1695; Monthly Mercury of August, 1695. Swift ten years later, wrote a lampoon on Cutts, so dull and so nauseously scurrilous that Ward or Gildon would have been ashamed of it, entitled the Description of a Salamander.