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.]]

BOOK VII.

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.