retendoit, a guerir des
jalousies et defiances, qui avoient lieu dans les choses incertaines;
mais que ce qui ce passoit ne l'etoit pas, qu'il y avoit une armee sur
pied qui subsistoit, et qui etoit remplie d'officiers Catholiques, qui
ne pouvoit etre conservee que pour le renversement des loix, et que la
subsistance de l'armee, quand il n'y a aucune guerre ni au dedans ni au
dehors, etoit l'etablissement du gouvernement arbitraire, pour lequel
les Anglois ont une aversion si bien fondee."]

[Footnote 33: He was very easily moved to tears. "He could not," says
the author of the Panegyric, "refrain from weeping on bold affronts."
And again "They talk of his hectoring and proud carriage; what could
be more humble than for a man in his great post to cry and sob?" In the
answer to the Panegyric it is said that "his having no command of his
tears spoiled him for a hypocrite."]

[Footnote 34: Lords' Journals, Nov. 19. 1685; Barillon, Nov. 23 / Dec.
3. Dutch Despatch, Nov. 20/30.; Luttrell's Diary, Nov. 19.; Burnet, i.
665. The closing speeds of Halifax is mentioned by the Nuncio in
his despatch of Nov. 16/26. Adda, about a month later, hears strong
testimony to Halifax's powers,

"Da questo uomo che ha gran credito nel parlamento, e grande eloquenza,
non si possono attendere che fiere contradizioni, e nel parlito Regio
non vi e un uomo da contrapporsi." Dec. 21/31.]

[Footnote 35: Lords' and Commons' Journals, Nov. 20. 1685.]

[Footnote 36: Lords' Journals, Nov. 11. 17, 18. 1685.]

[Footnote 37: Burnet i, 646.]

[Footnote 38: Bramston's Memoirs; Luttrell's Diary.]

[Footnote 39: The trial in the Collection of State Trials; Bramston's
Memoirs Burnet, 1. 647.; Lords' Journals, Dec. 20. 1689.]

[Footnote 40: Lords' Journals, Nov. 9, to. 16. 1685.]

[Footnote 41: Speech on the Corruption of the Judges in Lord Delamere's
works, 1694.]

[Footnote 42: Fu una funzione piena di gravita, di ordine, e di gran
speciosita. Adda, Jan. 15/25. 1686.]

[Footnote 43: The Trial is in the Collection of State Trials. Leeuwen,
Jan. 15/25. 19/29. 1686.]

[Footnote 44: Lady Russell to Dr. Fitzwilliam, Jan. 15. 1686.]

[Footnote 45: Lewis to Barillon, Feb. 10/20 1685/6.]

[Footnote 46: Evelyn's Diary, Oct. 2. 1685.]

[Footnote 47: Clarke's Life of James the Second, ii. 9., Orig. Mem.]

[Footnote 48: Leeuwen, Jan. 1/11 and 12/22 1686. Her letter, though very
long and very absurd, was thought worth sending to the States General as