FN 369 Commons’ Journals; Stat. 4 W. & M. c. 3.

FN 370 See a very remarkable note in Hume’s History of England,
Appendix iii.

FN 371 Wealth of Nations, book v. chap. iii.

FN 372 Wesley was struck with this anomaly in 1745.  See his
Journal.

FN 373 Pepys, June 10. 1668.

FN 374 See the Politics, iv. 13.

FN 375 The bill will be found among the archives of the House of
Lords.

FN 376 Lords’ Journals, Jan. 3. 1692/3.

FN 377 Introduction to the Copies and Extracts of some Letters written to and from the Earl of Danby, now Duke of Leeds, published by His Grace’s Direction, 1710.

FN 378 Commons’ Journals; Grey’s Debates.  The bill itself is among the archives of the House of Lords.

FN 379 Dunton’s Life and Errors; Autobiography of Edmund Bohun, privately printed in 1853.  This autobiography is, in the highest degree, curious and interesting.

FN 380 Vox Cleri, 1689.

FN 381 Bohun was the author of the History of the Desertion, published immediately after the Revolution.  In that work he propounded his favourite theory.  “For my part,” he says, “I am amazed to see men scruple the submitting to the present King; for, if ever man had a just cause of war, he had; and that creates a right to the thing gained by it.  The King by withdrawing and disbanding his army yielded him the throne; and if he had, without any more ceremony, ascended it, he had done no more than all other princes do on the like occasions.”

FN 382 Character of Edmund Bohun, 1692.

FN 383 Dryden, in his Life of Lucian, speaks in too high terms of
Blount’s abilities.  But Dryden’s judgment was biassed; for
Blount’s first work was a pamphlet in defence of the Conquest of
Granada.

FN 384 See his Appeal from the Country to the City for the
Preservation of His Majesty’s Person, Liberty, Property, and the
Protestant Religion.

FN 385 See the article on Apollonius in Bayle’s Dictionary.  I say that Blount made his translation from the Latin; for his works contain abundant proofs that he was not competent to translate from the Greek.

FN 386 See Gildon’s edition of Blount’s Works, 1695.

FN 387 Wood’s Athenae Oxonienses under the name Henry Blount
(Charles Blount’s father); Lestrange’s Observator, No. 290.

FN 388 This piece was reprinted by Gildon in 1695 among Blount’s
Works.

FN 389 That the plagiarism of Blount should have been detected by few of his contemporaries is not wonderful.  But it is wonderful that in the Biographia Britannica his just Vindication should be warmly extolled, without the slightest hint that every thing good in it is stolen.  The Areopagitica is not the only work which he pillaged on this occasion.  He took a noble passage from Bacon without acknowledgment.