[Footnote 472: Citters, Sept. 11/21 1688 Avaux, Sept. 17/27 Sept 27/Oct
7 Oct. 3 Wagenaar, book lx.; Sunderland's Apology. It has been often
asserted that James declined the help of a French army. The truth is
that no such army was offered. Indeed, the French troops would have
served James much more effectually by menacing the frontiers of Holland
than by crossing the Channel.]

[Footnote 473: Lewis to Barillon, Sept. 20/30 1688.]

[Footnote 474: Avaux, Sept 27/Oct 7 27. Oct. 4/14 1688.]

[Footnote 475: Madame de Sevigne, Oct 24/Nov 3 1688.]

[Footnote 476: Witsen MS. quoted by Wagenaar; Lord Lonsdale's Memoirs;
Avaux, Oct. 4/14 5/15 1688. The formal declaration of the States
General, dated Oct. 18/28 will be found in the Recueil des Traites, vol.
iv. no. 225.]

[Footnote 477: Abrege de la Vie de Frederic Duc de Schomberg, 1690;
Sidney to William, June 30. 1688; Burnet, i. 677.]

[Footnote 478: Burnet, i. 584.; Mackay's Memoirs.]

[Footnote 479: Burnet, i. 775. 780.]

[Footnote 480: Eachard's History of the Revolution, ii. 2.]

[Footnote 481: Pepys's Memoirs relating to the Royal Navy, 1690.
Clarke's Life of James the Second, ii. 186 Orig. Mem.; Adda, Sept 21/Oct
1 Citters, Sept 21/Oct 1]

[Footnote 482: Clarke's Life of James the Second, ii. 186. Orig. Mem.;
Adda, Sept 14/Oct 2 Citters, Sept 21/Oct 1]

[Footnote 483: Adda, Sept 28/Oct. 8. 1688. This despatch describes
strongly James's dread of an universal defection of his subjects.]

[Footnote 484: All the scanty light which we have respecting this
negotiation is derived from Reresby. His informant was a lady whom he
does not name, and who certainly was not to be implicitly trusted.]

[Footnote 485: London Gazette, Sept. 24. 27., Oct. 1., 1688.]

[Footnote 486: Tanner MSS.; Burnet, i. 784. Burnet has, I think,
confounded this audience with an audience which took place a few weeks
later.]

[Footnote 487: London Gazette, Oct. 8. 1688.]

[Footnote 488: Ibid.]

[Footnote 489: Ibid. Oct. 15. 1688; Adda, Oct. 12/22 The Nuncio,
though generally an enemy to violent courses, seems to have opposed the
restoration of Hough, probably from regard for the interests of Giffard
and the other Roman Catholics who were quartered in Magdalene College.
Leyburn declared himself "nel sentimento che fosse stato non spoglio,
e che il possesso in cui si trovano ora li Cattolici fosse violento ed
illegale, onde non era privar questi di no dritto acquisto, ma rendere
agli a