26, 1685; Lansdowne MS. 846.]

[Footnote 389: Avaux, July 5-15, 6-16, 1685.]

[Footnote 390: Van Citters, June 30,/July 10, July 3-13, 21-31,1685;
Avaux Neg. July 5-15, London Gazette, July 6.]

[Footnote 391: Barillon, July 6-16, 1685; Scott's preface to Albion and
Albanius.]

[Footnote 392: Abingdon to Clarendon, June 29,1685; Life of Philip
Henry, by Bates.]

[Footnote 393: London Gazette, June 22, and June 25,1685; Wade's
Confession; Oldmixon, 703; Harl. MS. 6845.]

[Footnote 394: Wade's Confession.]

[Footnote 395: Wade's Confession; Oldmixon, 703; Harl. MS. 6845; Charge
of Jeffreys to the grand jury of Bristol, Sept. 21, 1685.]

[Footnote 396: London Gazette, June 29, 1685; Wade's Confession.]

[Footnote 397: Wade's Confession.]

[Footnote 398: London Gazette, July 2,1685; Barillon, July 6-16; Wade's
Confession.]

[Footnote 399: London Gazette, June 29,1685; Van Citters, June 30,/July
10,]

[Footnote 400: Harl. MS. 6845; Wade's Confession.]

[Footnote 401: Wade's Confession; Eachard, iii. 766.]

[Footnote 402: Wade's Confession.]

[Footnote 403: London Gazette, July 6, 1685; Van Citters, July 3-13,
Oldmixon, 703.]

[Footnote 404: Wade's Confession.]

[Footnote 405: Matt. West. Flor. Hist., A. D. 788; MS. Chronicle quoted
by Mr. Sharon Turner in the History of the Anglo-Saxons, book IV. chap.
xix; Drayton's Polyolbion, iii; Leland's Itinerary; Oldmixon, 703.
Oldmixon was then at Bridgewater, and probably saw the Duke on the
church tower. The dish mentioned in the text is the property of Mr.
Stradling, who has taken laudable pain's to preserve the relics and
traditions of the Western insurrection.]

[Footnote 406: Oldmixon, 703.]

[Footnote 407: Churchill to Clarendon, July 4, 1685.]

[Footnote 408: Oldmixon, 703; Observator, Aug. 1, 1685.]

[Footnote 409: Paschall's Narrative in Heywood's Appendix.]

[Footnote 410: Kennet, ed. 1719, iii. 432. I am forced to believe
that this lamentable story is true. The Bishop declares that it was
communicated to him in the year 1718 by a brave officer of the Blues,
who had fought at Sedgemoor, and who had himself seen the poor girl
depart in an agony of distress.]

[Footnote 411: Narrative of an officer of the Horse Guards in Kennet,
ed. 1718, iii. 432; MS. Journal of the Western Rebellion, kept by Mr.
Edward Dummer, Dryden's Hind and Panther, part II. The lines of Dryden
are remarkable:

"Such were the pleasing triumphs of the sky
For