P. 820. Burnet. [The Prince of Orange] said,
he came over, being invited, to save the nation:
He had now brought together a free and true representative
of the kingdom: He left it therefore to them to
do what they thought best for the good of the kingdom:
And, when things were once settled, he should be well
satisfied to go back to Holland again.—Swift.
Did he tell truth?
Ibid. Burnet. He thought it necessary
to tell them, that he would not be the Regent:
So, if they continued in that design, they must look
out for some other person to be put in that post.—Swift.
Was not this a plain confession of what he came for?
P. 821. Burnet. In the end he said, that he
could not resolve to accept of a dignity, so as to
hold it only the life of another: Yet he thought,
that the issue of Princess Anne should be preferred,
in the succession, to any issue that he might have
by any other wife than the Princess.—Swift.
A great concession truly.
P. 822. Burnet. The poor Bishop of Durham [Lord
Crewe], who had absconded for some time, ... was now
prevailed on to come, and by voting the new settlement
to merit at least a pardon for all that he had done:
Which, all things considered, was thought very indecent
in him, yet not unbecoming the rest of his life and
character.—Swift. This is too hard,
though almost true.
Ibid. Burnet. Then the power of the Crown
to grant a non-obstante to some statutes was
objected.—Swift. Yet the words continue
in patents.
P. 824. Burnet. A notion was started, which
... was laid thus: “The Prince had a just
cause of making war on the King.” In that
most of them agreed. In a just war, in which
an appeal is made to God, success is considered as
the decision of Heaven. So the Prince’s
success against King James gave him the right of conquest
over him. And by it all his rights were transferred
to the Prince.—Swift. The author
wrote a paper to prove this, and it was burnt by the
hangman, and is a very foolish scheme.[8]
[Footnote 8: “A Pastoral Letter writ by
... Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum, to the clergy
of his Diocess” [dated May 15th, 1689] was condemned
by the House of Commons on Jan. 23rd, 169-2/3, and
ordered to “be burnt by the hand of the common
hangman.” [T.S.]]
P. 525 (second volume). Burnet, speaking of
the Act for the General Naturalization of Protestants,
and the opposition made against it by the High Church,
adds:—This was carried in the House of Commons,
with a great majority; but all those, who appeared
for this large and comprehensive way, were reproached
for their coldness and indifference in the concerns
of the Church: And in that I had a large share.—Swift.
Dog.
P. 526. Burnet. The faction here in England
found out proper instruments, to set the same humour
on foot [in Ireland], during the Earl of Rochester’s
government, and, as was said, by his directions:...
So the clergy were making the same bold claim there,
that had raised such disputes among us.—Swift.
Dog, dog, dog.
