FN 7 London Gazette, Feb. 23. 1691.

FN 8 The secret article by which the Duke of Savoy bound himself to grant toleration to the Waldenses is in Dumont’s collection.  It was signed Feb. 8, 1691.

FN 9 London Gazette from March 26. to April 13. 1691; Monthly Mercuries of March and April; William’s Letters to Heinsius of March 18. and 29., April 7. 9.; Dangeau’s Memoirs; The Siege of Mons, a tragi-comedy, 1691.  In this drama the clergy, who are in the interest of France, persuade the burghers to deliver up the town.  This treason calls forth an indignant exclamation

 “Oh priestcraft, shopcraft, how do ye effeminate
  The minds of men!”

FN 10 Trial of Preston in the Collection of State Trials.  A person who was present gives the following account of Somers’s opening speech:  “In the opening the evidence, there was no affected exaggeration of matters, nor ostentation of a putid eloquence, one after another, as in former trials, like so many geese cackling in a row.  Here was nothing besides fair matter of fact, or natural and just reflections from thence arising.”  The pamphlet from which I quote these words is entitled, An Account of the late horrid Conspiracy by a Person who was present at the Trials, 1691.

FN 11 State Trials.

FN 12 Paper delivered by Mr. Ashton, at his execution, to Sir Francis Child, Sheriff of London; Answer to the Paper delivered by Mr. Ashton.  The Answer was written by Dr. Edward Fowler, afterwards Bishop of Gloucester.  Burnet, ii. 70.; Letter from Bishop Lloyd to Dodwell, in the second volume of Gutch’s Collectanea Curiosa.

FN 13 Narcissus Luttrell’s Diary.

FN 14 Narcissus Luttrell’s Diary; Burnet, ii. 71.

FN 15 Letter of Collier and Cook to Sancroft among the Tanner
MSS.

FN 16 Caermarthen to William, February 3. 1690/1; Life of James, ii. 443.

FN 17 That this account of what passed is true in substance is sufficiently proved by the Life of James, ii. 443.  I have taken one or two slight circumstances from Dalrymple, who, I believe, took them from papers, now irrecoverably lost, which he had seen in the Scotch College at Paris.

FN 18 The success of William’s “seeming clemency” is admitted by the compiler of the Life of James.  The Prince of Orange’s method, it is acknowledged, “succeeded so well that, whatever sentiments those Lords which Mr. Penn had named night have had at that time, they proved in effect most bitter enemies to His Majesty’s cause afterwards."-ii. 443.

FN 19 See his Diary; Evelyn’s Diary, Mar. 25., April 22., July 11. 1691; Burnet, ii. 71.; Letters of Rochester to Burnet, March 21. and April 2. 1691.

FN 20 Life of James, ii. 443. 450.; Legge Papers in the Mackintosh Collection.