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[Footnote 252: Life of James, ii. 479. 524. Memorials furnished by Ferguson to Holmes in the Nairne Papers.]

[Footnote 253: Life of James, ii. 474.]

[Footnote 254: See the Monthly Mercuries of the spring of 1692.]

[Footnote 255: Narcissus Luttrell's Diary for April and May 1692; London Gazette, May 9. and 12.]

[Footnote 256: Sheridan MS.; Life of James, ii. 492.]

[Footnote 257: Life of James, ii. 488.]

[Footnote 258: James told Sheridan that the Declaration was written by Melfort. Sheridan MS.]

[Footnote 259: A Letter to a Friend concerning a French Invasion to restore the late King James to his Throne, and what may be expected from him should he be successful in it, 1692; A second Letter to a Friend concerning a French Invasion, in which the Declaration lately dispersed under the t.i.tle of His Majesty's most gracious Declaration to all his loving Subjects, commanding their a.s.sistance against the P. of O.

and his Adherents, is entirely and exactly published according to the dispersed Copies, with some short Observations upon it, 1692; The Pretences of the French Invasion examined, 1692; Reflections on the late King James's Declaration, 1692. The two Letters were written, I believe, by Lloyd Bishop of Saint Asaph. Sheridan says, "The King's Declaration pleas'd none, and was turn'd into ridicule burlesque lines in England."

I do not believe that a defence of this unfortunate Declaration is to be found in any Jacobite tract. A virulent Jacobite writer, in a reply to Dr. Welwood, printed in 1693, says, "As for the Declaration that was printed last year... I a.s.sure you that it was as much misliked by many, almost all, of the King's friends, as it can be exposed by his enemies."]

[Footnote 260: Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, April 1692.]

[Footnote 261: Sheridan MS.; Memoires de Dangeau.]

[Footnote 262: London Gazette, May 12. 16. 1692; Gazette de Paris, May 31. 1692.]

[Footnote 263: London Gazette, April 28. 1692]

[Footnote 264: Ibid. May 2. 5. 12. 16.]

[Footnote 265: London Gazette, May 16. 1692; Burchett.]

[Footnote 266: Narcissus Luttrell's Diary; London Gazette, May 19.

1692.]

[Footnote 267: Russell's Letter to Nottingham, May 20. 1692, in the London Gazette of May 23.; Particulars of Another Letter from the Fleet published by authority; Burchett; Burnet, ii. 93.; Life of James, ii.

493, 494.; Narcissus Luttrell's Diary; Memoires de Berwick. See also the contemporary ballad on the battle one of the best specimens of English street poetry, and the Advice to a Painter, 1692.]

[Footnote 268: See Delaval's Letter to Nottingham, dated Cherburg, May 22., in the London Gazette of May 26.]

[Footnote 269: London Gaz., May 26. 1692; Burchett's Memoirs of Transactions at Sea; Baden to the States General, May 24/June 3; Life of James, ii. 494; Russell's Letters in the Commons' Journals of Nov. 28.

1692; An Account of the Great Victory, 1692; Monthly Mercuries for June and July 1692; Paris Gazette, May 28/June 7; Van Almonde's despatch to the States General, dated May 24/June 3. 1692. The French official account will be found in the Monthly Mercury for July. A report drawn up by Foucault, Intendant of the province of Normandy, will be found in M.

Capefigue's Louis XIV.]

[Footnote 270: An Account of the late Great Victory, 1692; Monthly Mercury for June; Baden to the States General, May 24/ June 3; Narcissus Luttrell's Diary.]

[Footnote 271: London Gazette, June 2. 1692; Monthly Mercury; Baden to the States General, June 14/24. Narcissus Luttrell's Diary.]

[Footnote 272: Narcissus Luttrell's Diary; Monthly Mercury.]

[Footnote 273: London Gazette, June 9.; Baden to the States General, June 7/17]

[Footnote 274: Baden to the States General, June. 3/13]

[Footnote 275: Baden to the States General, May 24/June 3; Narcissus Luttrell's Diary.]

[Footnote 276: An Account of the late Great Victory, 1692; Narcissus Luttrell's Diary.]

[Footnote 277: Baden to the States General, June 7/17. 1692.]

[Footnote 278: Narcissus Luttrell's Diary.]

[Footnote 279: I give one short sentence as a specimen: "O fie that ever it should be said that a clergyman have committed such durty actions!"]

[Footnote 280: Gutch, Collectanea Curiosa.]

[Footnote 281: My account of this plot is chiefly taken from Sprat's Relation of the late Wicked Contrivance of Stephen Blackhead and Robert Young, 1692. There are very few better narratives in the language.]

[Footnote 282: Baden to the States General, Feb. 14/24 1693.]

[Footnote 283: Postman, April 13. and 20. 1700; Postboy, April 18.; Flying Post, April 20.]

[Footnote 284: London Gazette, March 14. 1692.]

[Footnote 285: The Swedes came, it is true, but not till the campaign was over. London Gazette, Sept, 10 1691,]

[Footnote 286: William to Heinsius March 14/24. 1692.]

[Footnote 287: William to Heinsius, Feb. 2/12 1692.]

[Footnote 288: Ibid. Jan 12/22 1692.]

[Footnote 289: Ibid. Jan. 19/29. 1692.]

[Footnote 290: Burnet, ii. 82 83.; Correspondence of William and Heinsius, pa.s.sim.]

[Footnote 291: Memoires de Torcy.]

[Footnote 292: William to Heinsius, Oct 28/Nov 8 1691.]

[Footnote 293: Ibid. Jan. 19/29. 1692.]

[Footnote 294: His letters to Heinsius are full of this subject.]

[Footnote 295: See the Letters from Rome among the Nairne Papers. Those in 1692 are from Lytcott; those in 1693 from Cardinal Howard; those in 1694 from Bishop Ellis; those in 1695 from Lord Perth. They all tell the same story.]

[Footnote 296: William's correspondence with Heinsius; London Gazette, Feb. 4. 1691. In a pasquinade published in 1693, and ent.i.tled "La Foire d'Ausbourg, Ballet Allegorique," the Elector of Saxony is introduced saying,

"Moy, je diray naivement, Qu'une jartiere d'Angleterre Feroit tout Mon empress.e.m.e.nt; Et je ne vois rien sur la terre Ou je trouve plus d'agrement."]

[Footnote 297: William's correspondence with Heinsius. There is a curious account of Schoening in the Memoirs of Count Dohna.]