FN 676 Postman, March 12. 1696; Vernon to Lexington, March 13; Van Cleverskirke, March 13/23 The proceedings are fully reported in the Collection of State Trials.

FN 677 Burnet, ii. 171.; The Present Disposition of England considered; The answer entitled England’s Enemies Exposed, 1701; L’Hermitage, March 17/27. 1696.  L’Hermitage says, “Charnock a fait des grandes instances pour avoir sa grace, et a offert de tout declarer:  mais elle lui a este refusee.”

FN 678 L’Hermitage, March 17/27

FN 679 This most curious paper is among the Nairne MSS. in the Bodleian Library.  A short, and not perfectly ingenuous abstract of it will be found in the Life of James, ii. 555.  Why Macpherson, who has printed many less interesting documents did not choose to print this document, it is easy to guess.  I will transcribe two or three important sentences.  “It may reasonably be presumed that what, in one juncture His Majesty had rejected he might in another accept, when his own and the public good necessarily required it.  For I could not understand it in such a manner as if he had given a general prohibition that at no time the Prince of Orange should be touched. . .  Nobody that believes His Majesty to be lawful King of England can doubt but that in virtue of his commission to levy war against the Prince of Orange and his adherents, the setting upon his person is justifiable, as well by the laws of the land duly interpreted and explained as by the law of God.”

FN 680 The trials of Friend and Parkyns will be found, excellently reported, among the State Trials.

FN 681 L’Hermitage, April 3/13 1696.

FN 682 Commons’ Journals, April 1, 2. 1696; L’Hermitage, April 3/13. 1696; Van Cleverskirke, of the same date.

FN 683 L’Hermitage, April 7/17. 1696.  The Declaration of the Bishops, Collier’s Defence, and Further Defence, and a long legal argument for Cook and Snatt will be found in the Collection of State Trials.

FN 684 See the Manhunter, 1690.

FN 685 State Trials.

FN 686 The best, indeed the only good, account of these debates is given by L’Hermitage, Feb 28/March 9 1696.  He says, very truly; “La difference n’est qu’une dispute de mots, le droit qu’on a a une chose selon les loix estant aussy bon qu’il puisse estre.”

FN 687 See the London Gazettes during several weeks; L’Hermitage,
March 24/April 3 April 14/24. 1696; Postman, April 9 25 30

FN 688 Journals of the Commons and Lords; L’Hermitage, April 7/17 10/20 1696.

FN 689 See the Freeholder’s Plea against Stockjobbing Elections of Parliament Men, and the Considerations upon Corrupt Elections of Members to serve in Parliament.  Both these pamphlets were published in 1701.

FN 690 The history of this bill will be found in the Journals of the Commons, and in a very interesting despatch of L’Hermitage, April 14/24 1696.

FN 691 The Act is 7 & 8 Will. 3. c. 31.  Its history maybe traced in the Journals.