eace of our
streets, for the happiness of our houses, our gratitude is due, under
Him who raises and pulls down nations at his pleasure, to the Long
Parliament, to the Convention, and to William of Orange.

*****

[Footnote 1: Avaux Neg., Aug. 6/16 1685; Despatch of Citters and his
colleagues, enclosing the treaty, Aug. Lewis to Barillon, Aug. 14/24.]

[Footnote 2: Instructions headed, "For my son the Prince of Wales,
1692," in the Stuart Papers.]

[Footnote 3: "The Habeas Corpus," said Johnson, the most bigoted of
Tories, to Boswell, "is the single advantage which our government has
over that of other countries;" and T. B. Macaulay is the most bigoted of
Whigs in his own country, but left his whiggism at home when he went to
India.]

[Footnote 4: See the Historical Records of Regiments, published under
the supervision of the Adjutant General.]

[Footnote 5: Barillon, Dec. 3/13 1685. He had studied the subject much.
"C'est un detail," he says, "dont j'ai connoissance." it appears from
the Treasury Warrant Book that the charge of the army for the year 1687
was first of January at 623,104l. 9s. 11d.]

[Footnote 6: Burnet, i. 447.]

[Footnote 7: Tillotson's Sermon, preached before the House of Commons,
Nov. 5. 1678.]

[Footnote 8: Locke, First Letter on Toleration.]

[Footnote 9: Council Book. The erasure is dated Oct. 21. 1685. Halifax
to Chesterfield; Barillon, Oct. 19/29.]

[Footnote 10: Barillon, Oct. 26/Nov. 5. 1685; Lewis to Barillon, Oct. 27
/ Nov. 6. Nov. 6/16.]

[Footnote 11: There is a remarkable account of the first appearance of
the symptoms of discontent among the Tories in a letter of Halifax to
Chesterfield, written in October, 1685. Burnet, i. 684.]

[Footnote 12: The contemporary tracts in various languages on the
subject of this persecution are innumerable. An eminently clear, terse,
and spirited summary will be found in Voltaire's Siecle de Louis XIV.]

[Footnote 13: "Misionarios embotados," says Ronquillo. "Apostoli
armati," says Innocent. There is, in the Mackintosh Collection, a
remarkable letter on this subject from Ronquillo, dated March 26./April
5. 1686 See Venier, Relatione di Francia, 1689, quoted by Professor
Ranke in his Romische Papste, book viii.]

[Footnote 14: "Mi dicono che tutti questi parlamentarii no hanno voluto
copia, il che assolutamente avra causate pessime impressioni."--Adda,
Nov. 9/13. 1685. See Evelyn's Diary, Nov. 3.]

[Footnote 15: Lords' Journals, No