ejoran su estado, quedando seguros ellos y sus descendientes en
la religion, en la quietud, y en la seguridad de sus haciendas." July
23/Aug 2 1688.]

[Footnote 338: Privy Council Book, Sept. 25. 1687; Feb. 21. 1687/8]

[Footnote 339: Records of the Corporation, quoted in Brand's History of
Newcastle. Johnstone, Feb. 21. 1687/8]

[Footnote 340: Johnstone, Feb. 21 1687/8]

[Footnote 341: Citters, Feb. 14/24 1688.]

[Footnote 342: Ibid. May 1/11. 1688.]

[Footnote 343: In the margin of the Privy Council Book may be
observed the words "Second regulation," and "Third regulation," when a
corporation had been remodelled more than once.]

[Footnote 344: Johnstone, May 23. 1688.]

[Footnote 345: Ibid. Feb. 21. 1688.]

[Footnote 346: Johnstone, Feb. 21. 1688.]

[Footnote 347: Citters, March 20/30 1688.]

[Footnote 348: Ibid. May 1/11 1688.]

[Footnote 349: Citters, May 22/June 1 1688.]

[Footnote 350: Ibid. May 1/11 1688.]

[Footnote 351: Ibid. May 18/28 1688.]

[Footnote 352: Ibid. April 6 1688; Treasury Letter Book, March 14. 1687;
Ronquillo, April 16/26.]

[Footnote 353: Citters, May 18/28 1688.]

[Footnote 354: Citters, May 18/28 1688.]

[Footnote 355: London Gazette, Dec. 15. 1687. See the proceedings
against Williams in the Collection of State Trials. "Ha hecho," says
Ronquillo, "grande susto el haber nombrado el abogado Williams, que
fue el orador y el mas arrabiado de toda la casa de los comunes en los
ultimos terribles parlamentos del Rey difunto." Nov 27/Dec 7 1687.]

[Footnote 356: London Gazette, April 30. 1688; Barillon, April 26/May 6]

[Footnote 357: Citters, May 1/11. 1688.]

[Footnote 358: London Gazette, May 7. 1688.]

[Footnote 359: Johnstone May 27. 1688.]

[Footnote 360: That very remarkable man, the late Alexander Knox, whose
eloquent conversation and elaborate letters had a great influence on the
minds of his contemporaries, learned, I suspect, much of his theological
system from Fowler's writings. Fowler's book on the Design of
Christianity was assailed by John Bunyan with a ferocity which nothing
can justify, but which the birth and breeding of the honest tinker in
some degree excuse.]

[Footnote 361: Johnstone, May 23. 1688. There is a satirical poem on
this meeting entitled the Clerical Cabal.]

[Footnote 362: Clarendon's Diary, May 22. 1688.]

[Footnote 363: Extracts from Tanner MS. in Howell's State Trials; Life
of Prideaux; Clarendon's Diary, May 16. 1688.]

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