FN 781 Lords’ Journals, Jan. 22. 26. 1696/7; Vernon to
Shrewsbury, Jan. 26.

FN 782 Commons’ Journals, Jan. 27. 169.  The entry in the journals, which might easily escape notice, is explained by a letter of L’Hermitage, written Jan 29/Feb 8

FN 783 L’Hermitage, Jan 29/Feb 8; 1697; London Gazette, Feb. 1.;
Paris Gazette; Vernon to Shrewsbury; Jan. 28.; Burnet, ii. 193.

FN 784 Commons’ Journals, December 19. 1696; Vernon to
Shrewsbury, Nov. 28. 1696.

FN 785 Lords’ Journals, Jan. 23. 1696/7; Vernon to Shrewsbury,
Jan. 23.; L’Hermitage, Jan 26/Feb 5.

FN 786 Commons’ Journals, Jan. 26. 1696/7; Vernon to Shrewsbury and Van Cleverskirke to the States General of the same date.  It is curious that the King and the Lords should have made so strenuous a fight against the Commons in defence of one of the five points of the Peoples Charter.

FN 787 Commons’ Journals, April 1. 3. 1697; Narcissus Luttrell’s Diary; L’Hermitage, April 2/12 As L’Hermitage says, “La plupart des membres, lorsqu’ils sont a la campagne, estant bien aises d’estre informez par plus d’un endroit de ce qui se passe, et s’imaginant que la Gazette qui se fait sous la direction d’un des Secretaires d’Etat, ne contiendroit pas autant de choses que fait celle-cy, ne sont pas fichez que d’autres les instruisent.”  The numbers on the division I take from L’Hermitage.  They are not to be found in the Journals.  But the Journals were not then so accurately kept as at present.

FN 788 Narcissus Luttrell’s Diary, June 1691, May 1693.

FN 789 Commons’ Journals, Dec 30. 1696; Postman, July 4. 1696.

FN 790 Postman April 22. 1696; Narcissus Luttrell’s Diary.

FN 791 London Gazette, April 26. 29. 1697,

FN 792 London Gazette, April 29. 1697; L’Hermitage, April 23/May 3

FN 793 London Gazette, April 26. 29 1697 L’Hermitage, April 23/May 3

FN 794 What the opinion of the public was we learn from a letter written by L’Hermitage immediately after Godolphin’s resignation, Nov 3/13. 1696, “Le public tourne plus la veue sur le Sieur Montegu, qui a la seconde charge de la Tresorerie que sur aucun autre.”  The strange silence of the London Gazette is explained by a letter of Vernon to Shrewsbury, dated May 1. 1697.

FN 795 London Gazette, April 22. 26:  1697.

FN 796 Postman, Jan. 26; Mar. 7. 11. 1696/7; April 8. 1697.

FN 797 Ibid.  Oct. 29. 1696.

FN 798 Howell’s State Trials; Postman, Jan. 9/19 1696/7.

FN 799 See the Protocol of February 10 1697, in the Actes et
Memoires des Negociations de la Paix de Ryswick, 1707.

FN 800 William to Heinsius, Dec. 11/21 1696.  There are similar expressions in other letters written by the King about the same time.

FN 801 See the papers drawn up at Vienna, and dated Sept. 16. 1696, and March 14 1697.  See also the protocol drawn up at the Hague, March 14. 1697.  These documents will be found in the Actes et Memoires des Negociations de la Paix de Ryswick, 1707.