It
will be found, together with a letter of the Schout or High Bailiff
of Amsterdam, in a little volume published a few months later, and
entitled, "Histoire des Evenemens Tragiques d'Angleterre." The documents
inserted in that work are, as far as I have examined them, given exactly
from the Dutch archives, except that Skelton's French, which was not
the purest, is slightly corrected. See also Grey's Narrative.----
Goodenough, on his examination after the battle of Sedgemoor, said,
"The Schout of Amsterdam was a particular friend to this last design."
Lansdowne MS. 1152.---- It is not worth while to refute those writers
who represent the Prince of Orange as an accomplice in Monmouth's
enterprise. The circumstance on which they chiefly rely is that the
authorities of Amsterdam took no effectual steps for preventing the
expedition from sailing. This circumstance is in truth the strongest
proof that the expedition was not favoured by William. No person, not
profoundly ignorant of the institutions and politics of Holland, would
hold the Stadtholder answerable for the proceedings of the heads of the
Loevestein party.]

[Footnote 356: Avaux Neg. June 7-17, 8-18, 14-24, 1685, Letter of the
Prince of Orange to Lord Rochester, June 9, 1685.]

[Footnote 357: Van Citters, June 9-19, June 12-22,1685. The
correspondence of Skelton with the States General and with the Admiralty
of Amsterdam is in the archives at the Hague. Some pieces will be found
in the Evenemens Tragiques d'Angleterre. See also Burnet, i. 640.]

[Footnote 358: Wade's Confession in the Hardwicke Papers; Harl. MS.
6845.]

[Footnote 359: See Buyse's evidence against Monmouth and Fletcher in the
Collection of State Trials.]

[Footnote 360: Journals of the House of Commons, June 13, 1685; Harl.
MS. 6845; Lansdowne MS. 1152.]

[Footnote 361: Burnet, i. 641, Goodenough's confession in the Lansdowne
MS. 1152. Copies of the Declaration, as originally printed, are very
rare; but there is one in the British Museum.]

[Footnote 362: Historical Account of the Life and magnanimous Actions of
the most illustrious Protestant Prince James, Duke of Monmouth, 1683.]

[Footnote 363: Wade's Confession, Hardwicke Papers; Axe Papers; Harl.
MS. 6845.]

[Footnote 364: Harl. MS. 6845.]

[Footnote 365: Buyse's evidence in the Collection of State Trials;
Burnet i 642; Ferguson's MS. quoted by Eachard.]

[Footnote 366: London Gazette, June 18, 1685; Wade's Confession,
Hardwicke