nickname Bayes.]

[Footnote 30: Scarcely any man of that age is more frequently mentioned
in pamphlets and satires than Howe. In the famous petition of Legion,
he is designated as "that impudent scandal of Parliaments." Mackay's
account of him is curious. In a poem written in 1690, which I have never
seen except in manuscript, are the following lines:

"First for Jack Howe with his terrible talent,
Happy the female that scopes his lampoon;
Against the ladies excessively valiant,
But very respectful to a Dragoon."]

[Footnote 31: Sprat's True Account; North's Examen; Letter to Chief
Justice Holt, 1694; Letter to Secretary Trenchard, 1694.]

[Footnote 32: Van Citters, Feb 19/March 1 1688/9]

[Footnote 33: Stat. I W.&M. sess. i. c. I. See the Journals of the two
Houses, and Grey's Debates. The argument in favour of the bill is well
stated in the Paris Gazettes of March 5. and 12. 1689.]

[Footnote 34: Both Van Citters and Ronquillo mention the anxiety which
was felt in London till the result was known.]

[Footnote 35: Lords' Journals, March 1688/9]

[Footnote 36: See the letters of Rochester and of Lady Ranelagh to
Burnet on this occasion.]

[Footnote 37: Journals of the Commons, March 2. 1688/9 Ronquillo
wrote as follows: "Es de gran consideracion que Seimor haya tomado el
juramento; porque es el arrengador y el director principal, en la casa
de los Comunes, de los Anglicanos." March 8/18 1688/9]

[Footnote 38: Grey's Debates, Feb. 25, 26, and 27. 1688/9]

[Footnote 39: Commons' Journals, and Grey's Debates, March 1. 1688/9]

[Footnote 40: I W. & M. sess. I c. [10]; Burnet, ii. 13.]

[Footnote 41: Commons' Journals, March 15. 1688/9 So late as 1713,
Arbuthnot, in the fifth part of John Bull, alluded to this transaction
with much pleasantry. "As to your Venire Facias," says John to Nick
Frog, "I have paid you for one already."]

[Footnote 42: Wagenaar, lxi.]

[Footnote 43: Commons' Journals, March 15. 1688/9.]

[Footnote 44: Reresby's Memoirs.]

[Footnote 45: Commons' Journals, and Grey's Debates, March 15. 1688/9;
London Gazette, March 18.]

[Footnote 46: As to the state of this region in the latter part of the
seventeenth and the earlier part of the eighteenth century, see Pepys's
Diary, Sept. 18. 1663, and the Tour through the whole Island of Great
Britain, 1724.]

[Footnote 47: London Gazette, March 25. 1689; Van Citters to the States
General, March 22/April 1 Letters of Nott