19/29 Citters, April 20/30; Privy Council Book, March 26; Luttrell's
Diary; Adda Feb 26/Mar 8 March 26/April 5, April 2/12 April 23/May 3]
[Footnote 109: Burnet's Travels.]
[Footnote 110: Barillon, May 27/June 6 1686.]
[Footnote 111: Citters, May 23/June 1 1686.]
[Footnote 112: Ellis Correspondence, June 26. 1686; Citters, July 2/12
Luttrell's Diary, July 19.]
[Footnote 113: See the contemporary poems, entitled Hounslow Heath and
Caesar's Ghost; Evelyn's Diary, June 2. 1686. A ballad in the Pepysian
collection contains the following lines
"I liked the place beyond expressing,
I ne'er saw a camp so fine,
Not a maid in a plain dressing,
But might taste a glass of wine."]
[Footnote 114: Luttrell's Diary, June 18. 1686.]
[Footnote 115: See the memoirs of Johnson, prefixed to the folio edition
of his life, his Julian, and his answers to his opponents. See also
Hickes's Jovian.]
[Footnote 116: Life of Johnson, prefixed to his works; Secret History of
the happy Revolution, by Hugh Speke; State Trials; Citters, Nov 23/Dec
3 1686. Citters gives the best account of the trial. I have seen a
broadside which confirms his narrative.]
[Footnote 117: See the preface to Henry Wharton's Posthumous Sermons.]
[Footnote 118: This I can attest from my own researches. There is an
excellent collection in the British Museum. Birch tells us, in his Life
of Tillotson, that Archbishop Wake had not been able to form even a
perfect catalogue of all the tracts published in this controversy.]
[Footnote 119: Cardinal Howard spoke strongly to Burnet at Rome on this
subject Burnet, i. 662. There is a curious passage to the same effect in
a despatch of Barillon but I have mislaid the reference.
One of the Roman Catholic divines who engaged in this controversy, a
Jesuit named Andrew Patton, whom Mr. Oliver, in his biography of the
Order, pronounces to have been a man of distinguished ability, very
frankly owns his deficiencies. "A. P. having been eighteen years out
of his own country, pretends not yet to any perfection of the English
expression or orthography." His orthography is indeed deplorable. In one
of his letters wright is put for write, woed for would. He challenged
Tenison to dispute with him in Latin, that they might be on equal terms.
In a contemporary satire, entitled The Advice, is the following couplet
"Send Pulton to be lashed at Bushy's school,
That he in print no longer play the
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