FN 791 See, in the Leven and Melville Papers, Melville's Letters written from London at this time to Crawford, Rule, Williamson, and other vehement Presbyterians. He says: "The clergy that were put out, and come up, make a great clamour: many here encourage and rejoyce at it . . . . There is nothing now but the greatest sobrietie and moderation imaginable to be used, unless we will hazard the overturning of all; and take this as earnest, and not as imaginations and fears only."FN 792 Principal Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland held in and begun at Edinburgh the 16th day of October, 1690; Edinburgh, 1691.
FN 793 Monthly Mercuries; London Gazettes of November 3. and 6.
1690.
FN 794 Van Citters to the States General, Oct. 3/13 1690.
FN 795 Lords' Journals, Oct. 6. 1690; Commons' Journals, Oct. 8.
FN 796 I am not aware that this lampoon has ever been printed. Ihave seen it only in two contemporary manuscripts. It is entitled The Opening of the Session, 1690.
FN 797 Commons' Journals, Oct. 9, 10 13, 14. 1690.
FN 798 Commons' Journals of December, 1690, particularly of Dec.
26. Stat. 2 W. & M. sess 2. C. 11.
FN 799 Stat. 2 W. and M. sess. 2. c. I. 3, 4.
FN 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.
FN 801 Lords' Journals, Oct. 30. 1690. The numbers are never given in the Lords' Journals. That the majority was only two is asserted by Ralph, who had, I suppose, some authority which Ihave not been able to find.
FN 802 Van Citters to the States General, Nov. 14/24 1690. The Earl of Torrington's speech to the House of Commons, 1710.
FN 803 Burnet, ii. 67, 68.; Van Citters to the States General, Nov. 22/Dec 1 1690; An impartial Account of some remarkable Passages 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.
FN 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:
"Yorkshire 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."FN 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."FN 806 "A thin, illnatured ghost that haunts the King."FN 807 "Let him with his blue riband be Tied close up to the gallows tree For my lady a cart; and I'd contrive it, Her dancing son and heir should drive it."FN 808 As to the designs of the Whigs against Caermarthen, see Burnet, ii. 68, 69, and a very significant protest in the Lords' journals, October 30. 1690. As to the relations between Caermarthen and Godolphin, see Godolphin's letter to William, dated March 20. 1691, in Dalrymple.
FN 809 My account of this conspiracy is chiefly taken from the evidence, oral and documentary, which was produced on the trial of the conspirators. See also Burnet, ii. 69, 70., and the Life of James, ii. 441. Narcissus Luttrell remarks that no Roman Catholic appeared to have been admitted to the consultations of the conspirators.
FN 810 The genuineness of these letters was once contested on very frivolous grounds. But the letter of Turner to Sancroft, which is among the Tanner papers in the Bodleian Library, and which will be found in the Life of Ken by a Layman, must convince the most incredulous.
FN 811 The words are these: "The Modest inquiry--The Bishops' Answer--Not the chilling of them--But the satisfying of friends."The Modest Inquiry was the pamphlet which hinted at Dewitting.
FN 812 Lords' and Commons' Journals Jan 5 1690/1; London Gazette, Jan 8End of The History of England from the Accession of James II, Vol. 3The History of England from the Accession of James the Second Volume IV(Chapters XVIII-XXII) by Thomas Babington Macaulay.