FN 651 Commons’ Journals, Jan. 14. 17. 23. 1696; L’Hermitage, Jan. 14/24; Gloria Cambriae, or Speech of a Bold Briton against a Dutch Prince of Wales 1702; Life of the late Honourable Robert Price, &c. 1734.  Price was the bold Briton whose speech—­never, I believe, spoken—­was printed in 1702.  He would have better deserved to be called bold, if he had published his impertinence while William was living.  The Life of Price is a miserable performance, full of blunders and anachronisms.

FN 652 L’Hermitage mentions the unfavourable change in the temper of the Commons; and William alludes to it repeatedly in his letters to Heinsius, Jan 21/31 1696, Jan 28/Feb 7.

FN 653 The gaiety of the Jacobites is said by Van Cleverskirke to have been noticed during some time; Feb 25/March 6 1696.

FN 654 Harris’s deposition, March 28. 1696.

FN 655 Hunt’s deposition.

FN 656 Fisher’s and Harris’s depositions.

FN 657 Barclay’s narrative, in the Life of James, ii. 548.; Paper by Charnock among the MSS. in the Bodleian Library.

FN 658 Harris’s deposition.

FN 659 Ibid.  Bernardi’s autobiography is not at all to be trusted.

FN 660 See his trial.

FN 661 Fisher’s deposition; Knightley’s deposition; Cranburne’s trial; De la Rue’s deposition.

FN 662 See the trials and depositions.

FN 663 L’Hermitage, March 3/13

FN 664 See Berwick’s Memoirs.

FN 665 Van Cleverskirke, Feb 25/March 6 1696.  I am confident that no sensible and impartial person, after attentively reading Berwick’s narrative of these transactions and comparing it with the narrative in the Life of James (ii. 544.) which is taken, word for word, from the Original Memoirs, can doubt that James was accessory to the design of assassination.

FN 666 L’Hermitage, March Feb 25/March 6

FN 667 My account of these events is taken chiefly from the trials and depositions.  See also Burnet, ii. 165, 166, 167, and Blackmore’s True and Impartial History, compiled under the direction of Shrewsbury and Somers, and Boyer’s History of King William iii., 1703.

FN 668 Portland to Lexington, March 3/13. 1696; Van Cleverskirke,
Feb 25/Mar 6 L’Hermitage, same date.

FN 669 Commons’ Journals, Feb. 24 1695.

FN 670 England’s Enemies Exposed, 1701.

FN 671 Commons’ Journals, Feb. 24. 1695/6.

FN 672 Ibid.  Feb. 25. 1695/6; Van Cleverskirke, Feb 28/March 9;
L’Hermitage, of the same date.

FN 673 According to L’Hermitage, Feb 27/Mar 8,there were two of these fortunate hackney coachmen.  A shrewd and vigilant hackney coachman indeed was from the nature of his calling, very likely to be successful in this sort of chase.  The newspapers abound with proofs of the general enthusiasm.

FN 674 Postman March 5. 1695/6

FN 675 Ibid.  Feb. 29., March 2., March 12., March 14. 1695/6.