tnote 257: It would be easy to fill a volume with what Whig
historians and pamphleteers have written on this subject. I will cite
only one witness, a churchman and a Tory. "Elections," says Evelyn,
"were thought to be very indecently carried on in most places. God give
a better issue of it than some expect!" May 10, 1685. Again he says,
"The truth is there were many of the new members whose elections and
returns were universally condemned." May 22.]

[Footnote 258: This fact I learned from a newsletter in the library of
the Royal Institution. Van Citters mentions the strength of the Whig
party in Bedfordshire.]

[Footnote 259: Bramston's Memoirs.]

[Footnote 260: Reflections on a Remonstrance and Protestation of all the
good Protestants of this Kingdom, 1689; Dialogue between Two Friends,
1689.]

[Footnote 261: Memoirs of the Life of Thomas Marquess of Wharton, 1715.]

[Footnote 262: See the Guardian, No. 67; an exquisite specimen of
Addison's peculiar manner. It would be difficult to find in the works
of any other writer such an instance of benevolence delicately flavoured
with contempt.]

[Footnote 263: The Observator, April 4, 1685.]

[Footnote 264: Despatch of the Dutch Ambasadors, April 10-20, 1685.]

[Footnote 265: Burnet, i. 626.]

[Footnote 266: A faithful account of the Sickness, Death, and Burial of
Captain Bedlow, 1680; Narrative of Lord Chief Justice North.]

[Footnote 267: Smith's Intrigues of the Popish Plot, 1685.]

[Footnote 268: Burnet, i. 439.]

[Footnote 269: See the proceedings in the Collection of State Trials.]

[Footnote 270: Evelyn's Diary, May 7, 1685.]

[Footnote 271: There remain many pictures of Oates. The most striking
descriptions of his person are in North's Examen, 225, in Dryden's
Absalom and Achitophel, and In a broadside entitled, A Hue and Cry after
T. O.]

[Footnote 272: The proceedings will be found at length in the Collection
of State Trials.]

[Footnote 273: Gazette de France May 29,/June 9, 1685.]

[Footnote 274: Despatch of the Dutch Ambassadors, May 19-29, 1685.]

[Footnote 275: Evelyn's Diary, May 22, 1685; Eachard, iii. 741; Burnet,
i. 637; Observator, May 27, 1685; Oates's Eikvn, 89; Eikwn Brotoloigon,
1697; Commons' Journals of May, June, and July, 1689; Tom Brown's
advice to Dr. Oates. Some interesting circumstances are mentioned in
a broadside, printed for A. Brooks, Charing Cross, 1685. I have seen
contemporary French and Italian pamphlets containin