17: Lords' Journals, March 18, 19, 1679, May 22, 1685.]

[Footnote 318: Stat. 5 Geo. IV. c. 46.]

[Footnote 319: Clarendon's History of the Rebellion, book xiv.; Burnet's
Own Times, i. 546, 625; Wade's and Ireton's Narratives, Lansdowne MS.
1152; West's information in the Appendix to Sprat's True Account.]

[Footnote 320: London Gazette, January, 4, 1684-5; Ferguson MS. in
Eachard's History, iii. 764; Grey's Narratives; Sprat's True Account,
Danvers's Treatise on Baptism; Danvers's Innocency and Truth vindicated;
Crosby's History of the English Baptists.]

[Footnote 321: Sprat's True Account; Burnet, i. 634; Wade's Confession,
Earl. MS. 6845.---- Lord Howard of Escrick accused Ayloffe of proposing
to assassinate the Duke of York; but Lord Howard was an abject liar;
and this story was not part of his original confession, but was added
afterwards by way of supplement, and therefore deserves no credit
whatever.]

[Footnote 322: Wade's Confession, Harl. MS. 6845; Lansdowne MS. 1152;
Holloway's narrative in the Appendix to Sprat's True Account. Wade owned
that Holloway had told nothing but truth.]

[Footnote 323: Sprat's True Account and Appendix, passim.]

[Footnote 324: Sprat's True Account and Appendix, Proceedings against
Rumbold in the Collection of State Trials; Burnet's Own Times, i. 633;
Appendix to Fox's History, No. IV.]

[Footnote 325: Grey's narrative; his trial in the Collection of State
Trials; Sprat's True Account.]

[Footnote 326: In the Pepysian Collection is a print representing one
of the balls which About this time William and Mary gave in the Oranje
Zaal.]

[Footnote 327: Avaux Neg. January 25, 1685. Letter from James to the
Princess of Orange dated January 1684-5, among Birch's Extracts in the
British Museum.]

[Footnote 328: Grey's Narrative; Wade's Confession, Lansdowne MS. 1152.]

[Footnote 329: Burnet, i. 542; Wood, Ath. Ox. under the name of Owen;
Absalom and Achtophel, part ii.; Eachard, iii. 682, 697; Sprat's True
Account, passim; Lond. Gaz. Aug. 6,1683; Nonconformist's Memorial;
North's Examen, 399.]

[Footnote 330: Wade's Confession, Harl. MS. 6845.]

[Footnote 331: Avaux Neg. Feb. 20, 22, 1685; Monmouth's letter to James
from Ringwood.]

[Footnote 332: Boyer's History of King William the Third, 2d edition,
1703, vol. i 160.]

[Footnote 333: Welwood's Memoirs, App. xv.; Burnet, i. 530. Grey told a
somewhat different story, but he told it to save his life. The Spanish
ambass