ent."]

[Footnote 246: "Que sea unido con su reyno, yen todo buena intelligencia
con el parlamenyo." Despatch from the King of Spain to Don Pedro
Ronquillo, March 16-26, 1685. This despatch is in the archives of
Samancas, which contain a great mass of papers relating to English
affairs. Copies of the most interesting of those papers are in the
possession of M. Guizot, and were by him lent to me. It is with peculiar
pleasure that at this time, I acknowledge this mark of the friendship of
so great a man. (1848.)]

[Footnote 247: Few English readers will be desirous to go deep into the
history of this quarrel. Summaries will be found in Cardinal Bausset's
Life of Bossuet, and in Voltaire's Age of Lewis XIV.]

[Footnote 248: Burnet, i. 661, and Letter from Rome, Dodd's Church
History, part viii. book i. art. 1.]

[Footnote 249: Consultations of the Spanish Council of State on April
2-12 and April 16-26, In the Archives of Simancas.]

[Footnote 250: Lewis to Barillon, May 22,/June 1, 1685; Burnet, i. 623.]

[Footnote 251: Life of James the Second, i. 5. Barillon, Feb. 19,/Mar.
1, 1685; Evelyn's Diary, March 5, 1685.]

[Footnote 252:

"To those that ask boons
He swears by God's oons
And chides them as if they came there to steal spoons."
Lamentable Lory, a ballad, 1684.]

[Footnote 253: Barillon, April 20-30. 1685.]

[Footnote 254: From Adda's despatch of Jan. 22,/Feb. 1, 1686, and
from the expressions of the Pere d'Orleans (Histoire des Revolutions
d'Angleterre, liv. xi.), it is clear that rigid Catholics thought the
King's conduct indefensible.]

[Footnote 255: London Gazette, Gazette de France; Life of James the
Second, ii. 10; History of the Coronation of King James the Second and
Queen Mary, by Francis Sandford, Lancaster Herald, fol. 1687; Evelyn's
Diary, May, 21, 1685; Despatch of the Dutch Ambassadors, April 10-20,
1685; Burnet, i. 628; Eachard, iii. 734; A sermon preached before their
Majesties King James the Second and Queen Mary at their Coronation in
Westminster Abbey, April 23, 1695, by Francis Lord Bishop of Ely, and
Lord Almoner. I have seen an Italian account of the Coronation which was
published at Modena, and which is chiefly remarkable for the skill with
which the writer sinks the fact that the prayers and psalms were in
English, and that the Bishops were heretics.]

[Footnote 256: See the London Gazette during the months of February,
March, and April, 1685.]

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