The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4

489 (return (#x12_x_12_i40))

[ Commons' Journals, Nov. 13. 1693; Grey's Debates.]

490 (return (#x12_x_12_i40))

[ Commons' Journals, Nov. 17. 1693.]

491 (return (#x12_x_12_i41))

[ Ibid. Nov. 22. 27. 1693; Grey's Debates.]

492 (return (#x12_x_12_i41))

[ Commons' Journals, Nov. 29. Dec. 6. 1693; L'Hermitage, Dec. 1/11 1693.]

493 (return (#x12_x_12_i43))

[ L'Hermitage, Sept. 1/11. Nov. 7/17 1693.]

494 (return (#x12_x_12_i44))

[ See the Journal to Stella, lii. liii. lix. lxi.; and Lady Orkney's Letters to Swift.]

495 (return (#x12_x_12_i44))

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

496 (return (#x12_x_12_i46))

[ Commons' Journals, Jan. 6. 8. 1693/4.]

497 (return (#x12_x_12_i47))

[ Ibid. Jan. 19. 1693/4]

498 (return (#x12_x_12_i50))

[ Hamilton's New Account.]

499 (return (#x12_x_12_i52))

[ 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.]

500 (return (#x12_x_12_i53))

[ 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.]

501 (return (#x12_x_12_i53))

[ 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 (return (#x13_x_13_i5))

[ 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.]

503 (return (#x13_x_13_i8))

[ Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, September 1691.]

504 (return (#x13_x_13_i9))

[ Commons' Journals, Jan. 4. 1693/4.]

505 (return (#x13_x_13_i9))

[ Of the Naturalisation Bill no copy, I believe exists. The history of that bill will be found in the Journals. From Van Citters and L'Hermitage we learn less than might have been expected on a subject which must have been interesting to Dutch statesmen. Knight's speech will be found among the Somers Papers. He is described by his brother Jacobite, Roger North, as "a gentleman of as eminent integrity and loyalty as ever the city of Bristol was honoured with."]

506 (return (#x13_x_13_i10))

[ Commons' Journals, Dec 5. 1694.]

507 (return (#x13_x_13_i10))

[ Commons' Journals, Dec. 20. and 22. 1693/4. The journals did not then contain any notice of the divisions which took place when the House was in committee. There was only one division on the army estimates of this year, when the mace was on the table. That division was on the question whether 60,000L. or 147,000L. should be granted for hospitals and contingencies. The Whigs carried the larger sum by 184 votes to 120. Wharton was a teller for the majority, Foley for the minority.]

508 (return (#x13_x_13_i11))

[ Commons' Journals, Nov. 25. 1694.]

509 (return (#x13_x_13_i12))

[ Stat. 5 W. & M. c. I.]

510 (return (#x13_x_13_i12))

[ Stat. 5 & 6 W.& M. c. 14.]

511 (return (#x13_x_13_i12))

[ Stat. 5 & 6 W. & M. c. 21.; Narcissus Luttrell's Diary.]

512 (return (#x13_x_13_i12))

[ Stat. 5 & 6 W. & M. c. 22.; Narcissus Luttrell's Diary.]

513 (return (#x13_x_13_i12))

[ Stat. 5 W. & M. c. 7.; Evelyn's Diary, Oct. 5, Nov. 22. 1694; A Poem on Squire Neale's Projects; Malcolm's History of London. Neale's functions are described in several editions of Chamberlayne's State of England. His name frequently appears in the London Gazette, as, for example, on July 28. 1684.]