a sign of the times.]

[Footnote 49: See his trial in the Collection of State Trials, and his
curious manifesto, printed in 1681.]

[Footnote 50: Memoires de Grammont; Pepys's Diary, Aug. 19. 1662.
Bonrepaux to Seignelay, Feb. 1/11 1686.]

[Footnote 51: Bonrepaux to Seignelay, Feb. 1/11. 1686.]

[Footnote 52: Memoires de Grammont; Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon;
Correspondence of Henry, Earl of Clarendon, passim, particularly the
letter dated Dec. 29. 1685; Sheridan MS. among the Stuart Papers; Ellis
Correspondence, Jan. 12. 1686.]

[Footnote 53: See his later correspondence, passim; St. Evremond,
passim; Madame de Sevigne's Letters in the beginning of 1689. See also
the instructions to Tallard after the peace of Ryswick, in the French
Archives.]

[Footnote 54: St. Simon, Memoires, 1697, 1719; St. Evremond; La
Fontaine; Bonrepaux to Seignelay, Jan. 28/Feb. 6, Feb. 8/18. 1686.]

[Footnote 55: Adda, Nov. 16/26, Dec. 7/17. and Dec. 21/31. 1685. In
these despatches Adda gives strong reasons for compromising matters by
abolishing the penal laws and leaving the test. He calls the quarrel
with the Parliament a "gran disgrazia." He repeatedly hints that the
King might, by a constitutional policy, have obtained much for the Roman
Catholics, and that the attempt to relieve them illegally is likely to
bring great calamities on them.]

[Footnote 56: Fra Paulo, tib. vii.; Pallavicino, lib. xviii. cap. 15.]

[Footnote 57: This was the practice of his daughter Anne; and
Marlborough said that she had learned it from her father--Vindication of
the Duchess of Marlborough.]

[Footnote 58: Down to the time of the trial of the Bishops, James went
on telling Adda that all the calamities of Charles the First were "per
la troppa indulgenza."--Despatch of 1688.]

[Footnote 59: Barillon, Nov. 16/26. 1685; Lewis to Barillon, Nov.
28/Dec. 6. 26. In a highly curious paper which was written in 1687,
almost certainly by Bonrepaux, and which is now in the French archives,
Sunderland is described thus-"La passion qu'il a pour le jeu, et les
pertes considerables quil y fait, incommodent fort ses affaires. Il
n'aime pas le vin; et il hait les femmes."]

[Footnote 60: It appears from the Council Book that he took his place as
president on the 4th of December, 1685.]

[Footnote 61: Bonrepaux was not so easily deceived as James. "En son
particulier il (Sunderland) n'en professe aucune (religion), et en parle
fort librement. Ces sortes de