in the Lower House was expected.]

[Footnote 612: Commons' Journals, April 24. 1690; Grey's Debates.]

[Footnote 613: Commons' Journals, April 24, 25, and 26; Grey's Debates;
Narcissus Luttrell's Diary. Narcissus is unusually angry. He calls the
bill "a perfect trick of the fanatics to turn out the Bishops and most
of the Church of England Clergy." In a Whig pasquinade entitled "A
speech intended to have been spoken on the Triennial Bill," on Jan. 28.
1692/3 the King is said to have "browbeaten the Abjuration Bill."]

[Footnote 614: Lords' Journals, May 1. 1690. This bill is among the
Archives of the House of Lords. Burnet confounds it with the bill which
the Commons had rejected in the preceding week. Ralph, who saw that
Burnet had committed a blunder, but did not see what the blunder was,
has, in trying to correct it, added several blunders of his own; and the
Oxford editor of Burnet has been misled by Ralph.]

[Footnote 615: Lords' Journals, May 2. and 3. 1690; Van Citters, May 2.;
Narcissus Luttrell's Diary; Burnet, ii. 44.; and Lord Dartmouth's
note. The changes made by the Committee may be seen on the bill in the
Archives of the House of Lords.]

[Footnote 616: These distinctions were much discussed at the time. Van
Citters, May 20/30 1690.]

[Footnote 617: Stat. 2 W.&M. sess. 1. C. 10.]

[Footnote 618: Roger North was one of the many malecontents who were
never tired of harping on this string.]

[Footnote 619: Stat. 2 W.&M. sess. 1. c. 6.; Grey's Debates, April 29.,
May 1. 5, 6, 7. 1690.]

[Footnote 620: Story's Impartial History; Narcissus Luttrell's Diary.]

[Footnote 621: Avaux, Jan. 15/25 1690.]

[Footnote 622: Macariae Excidium. This most curious work has been
recently edited with great care and diligence by Mr. O'Callaghan. I
owe so much to his learning and industry that I most readily excuse the
national partiality which sometimes, I cannot but think, perverts his
judgment. When I quote the Macariae Excidium, I always quote the Latin
text. The English version is, I am convinced, merely a translation from
the Latin, and a very careless and imperfect translation.]

[Footnote 623: Avaux, Nov. 14/24 1689.]

[Footnote 624: Louvois writes to Avaux, Dec 26/Jan 5 1689/90. "Comme le
Roy a veu par vos lettres que le Roy d'Angleterre craignoit de manquer
de cuivre pour faire de la monnoye, Sa Majeste a donne ordre, que l'on
mist sur le bastiment qui portera cette lettre une piece de canon du
calibre d