FN 487 The anomalous position which Harley and Foley at this time occupied is noticed in the Dialogue between a Whig and a Tory, 1693.  “Your great P. Fo-y,” says the Tory, “turns cadet and carries arms under the General of the West Saxons.  The two Har-ys, father and son, are engineers under the late Lieutenant of the Ordnance, and bomb any bill which he hath once resolv’d to reduce to ashes.”  Seymour is the General of the West Saxons.  Musgrave had been Lieutenant of the Ordnance in the reign of Charles the Second.

FN 488 Lords’ and Commons’ Journals, Nov. 7. 1693.

FN 489 Commons’ Journals, Nov. 13. 1693; Grey’s Debates.

FN 490 Commons’ Journals, Nov. 17. 1693.

FN 491 Ibid.  Nov. 22. 27. 1693; Grey’s Debates.

FN 492 Commons’ Journals, Nov. 29.  Dec. 6. 1693; L’Hermitage,
Dec. 1/11 1693.

FN 493 L’Hermitage, Sept. 1/11.  Nov. 7/17 1693.

FN 494 See the Journal to Stella, lii. liii. lix. lxi.; and Lady
Orkney’s Letters to Swift.

FN 495 See the letters written at this time by Elizabeth
Villiers, Wharton, Russell and Shrewsbury, in the Shrewsbury
Correspondence.

FN 496 Commons’ Journals, Jan. 6. 8. 1693/4.

FN 497 Ibid.  Jan. 19. 1693/4

FN 498 Hamilton’s New Account.

FN 499 The bill I found in the Archives of the Lords.  Its history I learned from the journals of the two Houses, from a passage in the Diary of Narcissus Luttrell, and from two letters to the States General, both dated on Feb 27/March 9 1694 the day after the debate in the Lords.  One of these letters is from Van Citters; the other, which contains fuller information, is from L’Hermitage.

FN 500 Commons’ Journals, Nov. 28. 1693; Grey’s Debates.  L’Hermitage expected that the bill would pas;, and that the royal assent would not be withheld.  On November. he wrote to the States General, “Il paroist dans toute la chambre beaucoup de passion a faire passer ce bil.”  On Nov 28/Dec 8 he says that the division on the passing “n’a pas cause une petite surprise.  Il est difficile d’avoir un point fixe sur les idees qu’on peut se former des emotions du parlement, car il paroist quelquefois de grander chaleurs qui semblent devoir tout enflammer, et qui, peu de tems apres, s’evaporent.”  That Seymour was the chief manager of the opposition to the bill is asserted in the once celebrated Hush Money pamphlet of that year.

FN 501 Commons’ Journals; Grey’s Debates.  The engrossed copy of this Bill went down to the House of Commons and is lost.  The original draught on paper is among the Archives of the Lords.  That Monmouth brought in the bill I learned from a letter of L’Hermitage to the States General Dec. 13. 1693.  As to the numbers on the division, I have followed the journals.  But in Grey’s Debates and in the letters of Van Citters and L’Hermitage, the minority is said to have been 172.

502 The bill is in the Archives of the Lords.  Its history I have collected from the journals, from Grey’s Debates, and from the highly interesting letters of Van Citters and L’Hermitage.  I think it clear from Grey’s Debates that a speech which L’Hermitage attributes to a nameless “quelq’un” was made by Sir Thomas Littleton.