[Footnote 96: Lords' Journals, March 21. 1689.]

[Footnote 97: Lords' Journals, April 5. 1689; Burnet, ii. 10.]

[Footnote 98: Commons' Journals, March 28. April 1. 1689; Paris Gazette,
April 23. Part of the passage in the Paris Gazette is worth quoting. "Il
y eut, ce jour le (March 28), une grande contestation dans la Chambre
Basse, sur la proposition qui fut faite de remettre les seences apres
les fetes de Pasques observees toujours par l'Eglise Anglicane. Les
Protestans conformistes furent de cet avis; et les Presbyterians
emporterent a la pluralite des voix que les seances recommenceroient
le Lundy, seconde feste de Pasques." The Low Churchmen are frequently
designated as Presbyterians by the French and Dutch writers of that age.
There were not twenty Presbyterians, properly so called, in the House of
Commons. See A. Smith and Cutler's plain Dialogue about Whig and Tory,
1690.]

[Footnote 99: Accounts of what passed at the Conferences will be found
in the Journals of the Houses, and deserve to be read.]

[Footnote 100: Journals, March 28. 1689; Grey's Debates.]

[Footnote 101: I will quote some expressions which have been preserved
in the concise reports of these debates. Those expressions are quite
decisive as to the sense in which the oath was understood by the
legislators who framed it. Musgrave said, "There is no occasion for
this proviso. It cannot be imagined that any bill from hence will ever
destroy the legislative power." Pinch said, "The words established
by law, hinder not the King from passing any bill for the relief of
Dissenters. The proviso makes the scruple, and gives the occasion for
it." Sawyer said, "This is the first proviso of this nature that ever
was in any bill. It seems to strike at the legislative power." Sir
Robert Cotton said, "Though the proviso looks well and Healing, yet it
seems to imply a defect. Not able to alter laws as occasion requires!
This, instead of one scruple, raises more, as if you were so bound up to
the ecclesiastical government that you cannot make any new laws without
such a proviso." Sir Thomas Lee said, "It will, I fear, creep in that
other laws cannot be made without such a proviso therefore I would lay
it aside."]

[Footnote 102: Lady Henrietta whom her uncle Clarendon calls "pretty
little Lady Henrietta," and "the best child in the world" (Diary, Jan.
168-I), was soon after married to the Earl of Dalkeith, eldest son of
the unfortunate Duke of Monmouth.]