est la copie d'une
lettre de M. Pen, que j'ay veue en original." The Memoire des Nouvelles
d'Angleterre et d'Escosse, which was sent with this despatch, begins
with the following sentences, which must have been part of Penn's
letter: "Le Prince d'Orange commence d'estre fort degoutte de l'humeur
des Anglois et la face des choses change bien viste, selon la nature des
insulaires et sa sante est fort mauvaise. Il y a un nuage qui commence a
se former au nord des deux royaumes, ou le Roy a beaucoup d'amis, ce qui
donne beaucoup d'inquietude aux principaux amis du Prince d'Orange,
qui, estant riches, commencent a estre persuadez que ce sera l'espee
qui decidera de leur sort, ce qu'ils ont tant tache d'eviter. Ils
apprehendent une invasion d'Irlande et de France; et en ce cas le Roy
aura plus d'amis que jamais."]

[Footnote 636: "Le bon effet, Sire, que ces lettres d'Escosse et
d'Angleterre ont produit, est qu'elles ont enfin persuade le Roy
d'Angleterre qu'il ne recouvrera ses estats que les armes a la main; et
ce n'est pas peu de l'en avoir convaincu."]

[Footnote 637: Van Citters to the States General, March 1/11 1689. Van
Citters calls Penn "den bekenden Archquaker."]

[Footnote 638: See his trial in the Collection of State Trials, and the
Lords' Journals of Nov. 11, 12. and 27. 1689.]

[Footnote 639: One remittance of two thousand pistoles is mentioned in
a letter of Croissy to Avaux, Feb. 16/26 1689. James, in a letter dated
Jan. 26. 1689, directs Preston to consider himself as still Secretary,
notwithstanding Melfort's appointment.]

[Footnote 640: Narcissus Luttrell's Diary; Commons' Journals, May 14.
15. 20. 1690; Kingston's True History, 1697.]

[Footnote 641: The Whole Life of Mr. William Fuller, being an Impartial
Account of his Birth, Education, Relations and Introduction into the
Service of the late King James and his Queen, together with a True
Discovery of the Intrigues for which he lies now confined; as also of
the Persons that employed and assisted him therein, with his Hearty
Repentance for the Misdemeanours he did in the late Reign, and all
others whom he hath injured; impartially writ by Himself during his
Confinement in the Queen's Bench, 1703. Of course I shall use this
narrative with caution.]

[Footnote 642: Fuller's Life of himself,]

[Footnote 643: Clarendon's Diary, March 6. 1690; Narcissus Luttrell's
Diary.]

[Footnote 644: Clarendon's Diary, May 10. 1690.]

[Footnote 645: He wrote