ians is confirmed by the
despatches of Van Citters. I have been much perplexed by the strange
story about Short's suspicions. I was, at one time, inclined to adopt
North's solution. But, though I attach little weight to the authority of
Welwood and Burnet in such a case, I cannot reject the testimony of so
well informed and so unwilling a witness as Sheffield.]

[Footnote 223: London Gazette, Feb. 9. 1684-5; Clarke's Life of James
the Second, ii. 3; Barillon, Feb. 9-19: Evelyn's Diary, Feb. 6.]

[Footnote 224: See the authorities cited in the last note. See also the
Examen, 647; Burnet, i. 620; Higgons on Burnet.]

[Footnote 225: London Gazette, Feb. 14, 1684-5; Evelyn's Diary of the
same day; Burnet, i. 610: The Hind let loose.]

[Footnote 226: Burnet, i. 628; Lestrange, Observator, Feb. 11, 1684.]

[Footnote 227: The letters which passed between Rochester and Ormond on
this subject will be found in the Clarendon Correspondence.]

[Footnote 228: The ministerial changes are announced in the London
Gazette, Feb. 19, 1684-5. See Burnet, i. 621; Barillon, Feb. 9-19,
16-26; and Feb. 19,/Mar. 1.]

[Footnote 229: Carte's Life of Ormond; Secret Consults of the Romish
Party in Ireland, 1690; Memoirs of Ireland, 1716.]

[Footnote 230: Christmas Sessions Paper of 1678.]

[Footnote 231: The Acts of the Witnesses of the Spirit, part v chapter
v. In this work Lodowick, after his fashion, revenges himself on the
"bawling devil," as he calls Jeffreys, by a string of curses which
Ernulphus, or Jeffreys himself, might have envied. The trial was in
January, 1677.]

[Footnote 232: This saying is to be found in many contemporary
pamphlets. Titus Oates was never tired of quoting it. See his Eikwg
Basilikh.]

[Footnote 233: The chief sources of information concerning Jeffreys are
the State Trials and North's Life of Lord Guildford. Some touches of
minor importance I owe to contemporary pamphlets in verse and prose.
Such are the Bloody Assizes the life and Death of George Lord Jeffreys,
the Panegyric on the late Lord Jeffreys, the Letter to the Lord
Chancellor, Jeffreys's Elegy. See also Evelyn's Diary, Dec. 5, 1683,
Oct. 31. 1685. I scarcely need advise every reader to consult Lord
Campbell's excellent Life of Jeffreys.]

[Footnote 234: London Gazette, Feb. 12, 1684-5. North's Life of
Guildford, 254.]

[Footnote 235: The chief authority for these transactions is Barillon's
despatch of February 9-19, 1685. It will be found in