ling's Chilton Priory;
Oldmixon, 704.]

[Footnote 419: Aubrey's Natural History of Wiltshire, 1691.]

[Footnote 420: Account of the manner of taking the late Duke of
Monmouth, published by his Majesty's command; Gazette de France, July
18-28, 1688; Eachard, iii. 770; Burnet, i. 664, and Dartmouth's note:
Van Citters, July 10-20,1688.]

[Footnote 421: The letter to the King was printed at the time by
authority; that to the Queen Dowager will be found in Sir H. Ellis's
Original Letters; that to Rochester in the Clarendon Correspondence.]

[Footnote 422: "On trouve," he wrote, "fort a redire icy qu'il ayt fait
une chose si peu ordinaire aux Anglois." July 13-23, 1685.]

[Footnote 423: Account of the manner of taking the Duke of Monmouth;
Gazette, July 16, 1685; Van Citters, July 14-24,]

[Footnote 424: Barillon was evidently much shocked. "Ill se vient," he
says, "de passer icy, une chose bien extraordinaire et fort opposee a
l'usage ordinaire des autres nations" 13-23, 1685.]

[Footnote 425: Burnet. i. 644; Evelyn's Diary, July 15; Sir J.
Bramston's Memoirs; Reresby's Memoirs; James to the Prince of Orange,
July 14, 1685; Barillon, July 16-26; Bucclench MS.]

[Footnote 426: James to the Prince of Orange, July 14, 1685, Dutch
Despatch of the same date, Dartmouth's note on Burnet, i. 646; Narcissus
Luttrell's Diary, (1848) a copy of this diary, from July 1685 to Sept.
1690, is among the Mackintosh papers. To the rest I was allowed access
by the kindness of the Warden of All Souls' College, where the original
MS. is deposited. The delegates of the Press of the University of Oxford
have since published the whole in six substantial volumes, which will, I
am afraid, find little favour with readers who seek only for amusement,
but which will always be useful as materials for history. (1857.)]

[Footnote 427: Buccleuch MS; Life of James the Second, ii. 37, Orig.
Mem., Van Citters, July 14-24, 1685; Gazette de France, August 1-11.]

[Footnote 428: Buccleuch MS.; Life of James the Second, ii. 37, 38,
Orig. Mem., Burnet, i. 645; Tenison's account in Kennet, iii. 432, ed.
1719.]

[Footnote 429: Buccleuch MS.]

[Footnote 430: The name of Ketch was often associated with that of
Jeffreys in the lampoons of those days.

"While Jeffreys on the bench,
Ketch on the gibbet sits,"

says one poet. In the year which followed Monmouth's execution Ketch
was turned out of his office for insulting one of the Sheriffs, and