and confiscations, by the violation of fundamental laws, and the persecution of the established religion, and then by a third rising up of the nation against that House which two depositions and two banishments had only made more obstinate in evil.  To the dangers of war and the dangers of treason had recently been added the dangers of a terrible financial and commercial crisis.  But all those dangers were over.  There was peace abroad and at home.  The kingdom, after many years of ignominious vassalage, had resumed its ancient place in the first rank of European powers.  Many signs justified the hope that the Revolution of 1688 would be our last Revolution.  The ancient constitution was adapting itself, by a natural, a gradual, a peaceful development, to the wants of a modern society.  Already freedom of conscience and freedom of discussion existed to an extent unknown in any preceding age.  The currency had been restored.  Public credit had been reestablished.  Trade had revived.  The Exchequer was overflowing.  There was a sense of relief every where, from the Royal Exchange to the most secluded hamlets among the mountains of Wales and the fens of Lincolnshire.  The ploughmen, the shepherds, the miners of the Northumbrian coalpits, the artisans who toiled at the looms of Norwich and the anvils of Birmingham, felt the change, without understanding it; and the cheerful bustle in every seaport and every market town indicated, not obscurely, the commencement of a happier age.

FN 1 Relation de la Voyage de Sa Majeste Britannique en Hollande, enrichie de planches tres curieuses, 1692; Wagenaar; London Gazette, Jan. 29. 1693; Burnet, ii. 71

FN 2 The names of these two great scholars are associated in a very interesting letter of Bentley to Graevius, dated April 29. 1698.  “Sciunt omnes qui me norunt, et si vitam mihi Deus O.M. prorogaverit, scient etiam posteri, ut te et ton panu Spanhemium, geminos hujus aevi Dioscuros, lucida literarum sidera, semper praedicaverim, semper veneratus sim.”

FN 3 Relation de la Voyage de Sa Majeste Britannique en Hollande 1692; London Gazette, Feb. 2. 1691,; Le Triomphe Royal ou l’on voit descrits les Arcs de Triomphe, Pyramides, Tableaux et Devises an Nombre de 65, erigez a la Haye a l’hounneur de Guillaume Trois, 1692; Le Carnaval de la Haye, 1691.  This last work is a savage pasquinade on William.

FN 4 London Gazette, Feb. 5. 1693; His Majesty’s Speech to the Assembly of the States General of the United Provinces at the Hague the 7th of February N.S., together with the Answer of their High and Mighty Lordships, as both are extracted out of the Register of the Resolutions of the States General, 1691.

FN 5 Relation de la Voyage de Sa Majeste Britannique en Hollande; Burnet, ii. 72.; London Gazette, Feb. 12. 19. 23. 1690/1; Memoires du Comte de Dohna; William Fuller’s Memoirs.

FN 6 Wagenaar, lxii.; Le Carnaval de la Haye, Mars 1691; Le Tabouret des Electeurs, April 1691; Ceremonial de ce qui s’est passe a la Haye entre le Roi Guillaume et les Electeurs de Baviere et de Brandebourg.  This last tract is a Ms. presented to the British Museum by George iv,