FN 426 View of the Court of Saint Germains.  The account given in this View is confirmed by a remarkable paper, which is among the Nairne MSS.  Some of the heads of the Jacobite party in England made a representation to James, one article of which is as follows:  “They beg that Your Majesty would be pleased to admit of the Chancellor of England into your Council; your enemies take advantage of his not being in it.”  James’s answer is evasive.  “The King will be, on all occasions, ready to express the just value and esteem he has for his Lord Chancellor.”

FN 427 A short and true Relation of Intrigues, 1694.

FN 428 See the paper headed “For my Son the Prince of Wales, 1692.”  It is printed at the end of the Life of James.

FN 429 Burnet, i. 683.

FN 430 As to this change of ministry at Saint Germains see the very curious but very confused narrative in the Life of James, ii. 498-575.; Burnet, ii. 219.; Memoires de Saint Simon; A French Conquest neither desirable nor practicable, 1693; and the Letters from the Nairne MSS. printed by Macpherson.

FN 431 Life of James, ii. 509.  Bossuet’s opinion will be found in the Appendix to M. Mazure’s history.  The Bishop sums up his arguments thus “Je dirai done volontiers aux Catholiques, s’il y en a qui n’approuvent point la declaration dont il s’agit; Noli esse justus multum; neque plus sapias quam necesse est, ne obstupescas.”  In the Life of James it is asserted that the French Doctors changed their opinion, and that Bossuet, though he held out longer than the rest, saw at last that he had been in error, but did not choose formally to retract.  I think much too highly of Bossuet’s understanding to believe this.

FN 432 Life of James, ii. 505.

FN 433 “En fin celle cy—­j’entends la declaration—­n’est que pour rentrer:  et l’on peut beaucoup mieux disputer des affaires des Catholiques a Whythall qu’a Saint Germain.”—­Mazure, Appendix.

FN 434 Baden to the States General, June 2/12 1693.  Four thousand copies, wet from the press, were found in this house.

FN 435 Baden’s Letters to the States General of May and June 1693; An Answer to the Late King James’s Declaration published at Saint Germains, 1693.

FN 436 James, ii. 514.  I am unwilling to believe that Ken was among those who blamed the Declaration of 1693 as too merciful.

FN 437 Among the Nairne Papers is a letter sent on this occasion by Middleton to Macarthy, who was then serving in Germany.  Middleton tries to soothe Macarthy and to induce Macarthy to soothe others.  Nothing more disingenuous was ever written by a Minister of State.  “The King,” says the Secretary, “promises in the foresaid Declaration to restore the Settlement, but at the same time, declares that he will recompense all those who may suffer by it by giving them equivalents.”  Now James did not declare that he would recompense any body, but merely that he would advise with his Parliament on