cia." Lord President Stair, in a
letter written from London about a month later, says that the delays of
the English administration had lowered the King's reputation, "though
without his fault."]

[Footnote 69: Burnet, ii. 4.; Reresby.]

[Footnote 70: Reresby's Memoirs; Burnet MS. Hart. 6584.]

[Footnote 71: Burnet, ii. 3, 4. 15.]

[Footnote 72: ibid. ii. 5.]

[Footnote 73:

"How does he do to distribute his hours,
Some to the Court, and some to the City,
Some to the State, and some to Love's powers,
Some to be vain, and some to be witty?"]
--The Modern Lampooners, a poem of 1690]

[Footnote 74: Burnet ii. 4]

[Footnote 75: Ronquillo calls the Whig functionaries "Gente que no
tienen practica ni experiencia." He adds, "Y de esto procede el pasarse
un mes y un otro, sin executarse nada." June 24. 1689. In one of the
innumerable Dialogues which appeared at that time, the Tory interlocutor
puts the question, "Do you think the government would be better served
by strangers to business?" The Whig answers, "Better ignorant friends
than understanding enemies."]

[Footnote 76: Negotiations de M. Le Comte d'Avaux, 4 Mars 1683; Torcy's
Memoirs.]

[Footnote 77: The original correspondence of William and Heinsius is
in Dutch. A French translation of all William's letters, and an English
translation of a few of Heinsius's Letters, are among the Mackintosh
MSS. The Baron Sirtema de Grovestins, who has had access to the
originals, frequently quotes passages in his "Histoire des luttes et
rivalites entre les puissances maritimes et la France." There is very
little difference in substance, though much in phraseology, between his
version and that which I have used.]

[Footnote 78: Though these very convenient names are not, as far as
I know, to be found in any book printed during the earlier years of
William's reign, I shall use them without scruple, as others have done,
in writing about the transactions of those years.]

[Footnote 79: Burnet, ii. 8.; Birch's Life of Tillotson; Life of
Kettlewell, part iii. section 62.]

[Footnote 80: Swift, writing under the name of Gregory Misosarum, most
malignantly and dishonestly represents Burnet as grudging this grant to
the Church. Swift cannot have been ignorant that the Church was indebted
for the grant chiefly to Burnet's persevering exertions.]

[Footnote 81: See the Life of Burnet at the end of the second volume of
his history, his manuscript memoi