rs, Harl. 6584, his memorials touching
the First Fruits and Tenths, and Somers's letter to him on that subject.
See also what Dr. King, Jacobite as he was, had the justice to say in
his Anecdotes. A most honourable testimony to Burnet's virtues, given by
another Jacobite who had attacked him fiercely, and whom he had treated
generously, the learned and upright Thomas Baker, will be found in the
Gentleman's Magazine for August and September, 1791.]

[Footnote 82: Oldmixon would have us believe that Nottingham was not, at
this time, unwilling to give up the Test Act. But Oldmixon's assertion,
unsupported by evidence, is of no weight whatever; and all the evidence
which he produces makes against his assertion.]

[Footnote 83: Burnet, ii. 6.; Van Citters to the States General, March
1/11 1689; King William's Toleration, being an explanation of that
liberty of conscience which may be expected from His Majesty's
Declaration, with a Bill for Comprehension and Indulgence, drawn up in
order to an Act of Parliament, licensed March 25. 1689.]

[Footnote 84: Commons' Journals, May 17. 1689.]

[Footnote 85: Sense of the subscribed articles by the Ministers of
London, 1690; Calamy's Historical Additions to Baxter's Life.]

[Footnote 86: The bill will be found among the Archives of the House of
Lords. It is strange that this vast collection of important documents
should have been altogether neglected, even by our most exact and
diligent historians. It was opened to me by one of the most valued of
my friends, Mr. John Lefevre; and my researches were greatly assisted by
the kindness of Mr. Thoms.]

[Footnote 87: Among the Tanner MSS. in the Bodleian Library is a very
curious letter from Compton to Sancroft, about the Toleration Bill and
the Comprehension Bill, "These," says Compton, "are two great works in
which the being of our Church is concerned: and I hope you will send to
the House for copies. For, though we are under a conquest, God has given
us favour in the eyes of our rulers; and they may keep our Church if we
will." Sancroft seems to have returned no answer.]

[Footnote 88: The distaste of the High Churchman for the Articles is the
subject of a curious pamphlet published in 1689, and entitled a Dialogue
between Timothy and Titus.]

[Footnote 89: Tom Brown says, in his scurrilous way, of the Presbyterian
divines of that time, that their preaching "brings in money, and money
buys land; and land is an amusement they all d