FN 398 Key to the Rehearsal; Shadwell's Sullen Lovers; Pepys, May 5. 8. 1668; Evelyn, Feb. 16. 1684/5.
FN 399 Grey's Debates and Commons' Journals, June 4. and 11 1689.
FN 400 Lords' Journals, June 6. 1689.
FN 401 Commons' Journals, Aug. 2. 1689; Dutch Ambassadors Extraordinary to the States General, July 30/Aug 9FN 402 Lords' Journals, July 30. 1689; Narcissus Luttrell's Diary; Clarendon's Diary, July 31. 1689.
FN 403 See the Commons' Journals of July 31. and August 13 1689.
FN 404 Commons' Journals, Aug. 20.
FN 405 Oldmixon accuses the Jacobites, Barnet the republicans.
Though Barnet took a prominent part in the discussion of this question, his account of what passed is grossly inaccurate. He says that the clause was warmly debated in the Commons, and that Hampden spoke strongly for it. But we learn from the journals (June 19 1689) that it was rejected nemine contradicente. The Dutch Ambassadors describe it as "een propositie 'twelck geen ingressie schynt te sullen vinden."FN 406 London Gazette, Aug. 1. 1689; Narcissus Luttrell's Diary.
FN 407 The history of this Bill may be traced in the journals of the two Houses, and in Grey's Debates.
FN 408 See Grey's Debates, and the Commons' Journals from March to July. The twelve categories will be found in the journals of the 23d and 29th of May and of the 8th of June.
FN 409 Halifax MS. in the British Museum.
FN 410 The Life and Death of George Lord Jeffreys; Finch's speech in Grey's Debates, March 1. 1688/9.
FN 411 See, among many other pieces, Jeffreys's Elegy, the Letter to the Lord Chancellor exposing to him the sentiments of the people, the Elegy on Dangerfield, Dangerfield's Ghost to Jeffreys, The Humble Petition of Widows and fatherless Children in the West, the Lord Chancellor's Discovery and Confession made in the lime of his sickness in the Tower; Hickeringill's Ceremonymonger; a broadside entitled "O rare show! O rare sight!
O strange monster! The like not in Europe! To be seen near Tower Hill, a few doors beyond the Lion's den."FN 412 Life and Death of George Lord Jeffreys, FN 413 Tutchin himself gives this narrative in the Bloody Assizes.
FN 414 See the Life of Archbishop Sharp by his son. What passed between Scott and Jeffreys was related by Scott to Sir Joseph Jekyl. See Tindal's History; Echard, iii. 932. Echard's informant, who is not named, but who seems to have had good opportunities of knowing the truth, said that Jeffreys died, not, as the vulgar believed, of drink, but of the stone. The distinction seems to be of little importance. It is certain that Jeffreys was grossly intemperate; and his malady was one which intemperance notoriously tends to aggravate.
FN 415 See a Full and True Account of the Death of George Lord Jeffreys, licensed on the day of his death. The wretched Le Noble was never weary of repeating that Jeffreys was poisoned by the usurper. I will give a short passage as a specimen of the calumnies of which William was the object. "Il envoya," says Pasquin "ce fin ragout de champignons au Chancelier Jeffreys, prisonnier dans la Tour, qui les trouva du meme goust, et du mmee assaisonnement que furent les derniers dont Agrippine regala le bon-homme Claudius son epoux, et que Neron appella depuis la viande des Dieux." Marforio asks: "Le Chancelier est donc mort dans la Tour?" Pasquin answers: "Il estoit trop fidele a son Roi legitime, et trop habile dans les loix du royaume, pour echapper a l'Usurpateur qu'il ne vouloit point reconnoistre. Guillemot prit soin de faire publier que ce malheureux prisonnier estoit attaque du'ne fievre maligne; mais, a parler franchement, i1vivroit peutestre encore s'i1 n'avoit rien mange que de la main de ses anciens cuisiniers."--Le Festin de Guillemot, 1689.
Dangeau (May q.) mentions a report that Jeffreys had poisoned himself.
FN 416 Among the numerous pieces in which the malecontent Whigs vented their anger, none is more curious than the poem entitled the Ghost of Charles the Second. Charles addresses William thus:
"Hail my blest nephew, whom the fates ordain To fill the measure of the Stuart's reign, That all the ills by our whole race designed In thee their full accomplishment might find 'Tis thou that art decreed this point to clear, Which we have laboured for these fourscore year."FN 417 Grey's Debates, June 12 1689.
FN 418 See Commons' Journals, and Grey's Debates, June 1. 3. and 4. 1689; Life of William, 1704.
FN 419 Barnet MS. Harl. 6584.; Avaux to De Croissy, June 16/261689.
FN 420 As to the minutes of the Privy Council, see the Commons' Journals of June 22. and 28., and of July 3. 5. 13. and 16.
FN 421 The letter of Halifax to Lady Russell is dated on the 23d of July 1689, about a fortnight after the attack on him in the Lords, and about a week before the attack on him in the Commons.
FN 422 See the Lords' Journals of July 10. 1689, and a letter from London dated July 11/21, and transmitted by Croissy to Avaux. Don Pedro de Ronquillo mentions this attack of the Whig Lords on Halifax in a despatch of which I cannot make out the date.
FN 423 This was on Saturday the 3d of August. As the division was in Committee, the numbers do not appear in the journals.