The treaty will be found in the Recueil des Traites, iv.
No. 209.]
[Footnote 224: Burnet, i. 762.]
[Footnote 225: Temple's Memoirs.]
[Footnote 226: See the poems entitled The Converts and The Delusion.]
[Footnote 227: The lines are in the Collection of State Poems.]
[Footnote 228: Our information about Wycherly is very scanty; but two
things are certain, that in his later years he called himself a Papist,
and that he received money from James. I have very little doubt that he
was a hired convert.]
[Footnote 229: See the article on him in the Biographia Britannica.]
[Footnote 230: See James Quin's account of Haines in Davies's
Miscellanies; Tom Brown's Works; Lives of Sharpers; Dryden's Epilogue to
the Secular Masque.]
[Footnote 231: This fact, which escaped the minute researches of Malone,
appears from the Treasury Letter Book of 1685.]
[Footnote 232: Leeuwen, Dec 25/Jan 4 1685/6]
[Footnote 233: Barillon,--Jan 31/Feb 10 1686/7. "Je crois que, dans
le fond, si on ne pouvoit laisser que la religion Anglicane et la
Catholique etablies par les loix, le Roy d'Angleterre en seroit bien
plus content."]
[Footnote 234: It will be round in Wodrow, Appendix, vol. ii. No. 129.]
[Footnote 235: Wodrow, Appendix, vol. ii. No. 128. 129. 132.]
[Footnote 236: Barillon Feb 20/March 10 1686/7; Citters, Feb. 16/23;
Reresby's Memoirs Bonrepaux, May 25/June 4 1687.]
[Footnote 237: Barillon, March 14/24 1687; Lady Russell to Dr.
Fitzwilliam, April 1.; Burnet, i. 671. 762. The conversation is somewhat
differently related in Clarke's Life of James, ii. 204. But that passage
is not part of the King's own memoirs.]
[Footnote 238: London Gazette, March 21. 1686/7.]
[Footnote 239: Ibid. April 7. 1687.]
[Footnote 240: Warrant Book of the Treasury. See particularly the
instructions dated March 8, 1687/8 Burnet, i. 715. Reflections on his
Majesty's Proclamation for a Toleration in Scotland; Letters containing
some Reflections on his Majesty's Declaration for Liberty of Conscience;
Apology for the Church of England with a relation to the spirit of
Persecution for which she is accused, 1687/8. But it is impossible for
me to cite all the pamphlets from which I have formed my notion of the
state of parties at this time.]
[Footnote 241: Letter to a Dissenter.]
[Footnote 242: Wodrow, Appendix, vol. ii. Nos. 132. 134.]
[Footnote 243: London Gazette, April 21. 1687 Animadversions on a late
paper entituled A Letter
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