s and Innocent, in the British
Museum; Burnet, i 703-705.; Welwood's Memoirs; Commons' Journals, Oct.
28. 1689; An Account of his Excellency Roger Earl of Castelmaine's
Embassy, by Michael Wright, chief steward of his Excellency's house at
Rome, 1688.]
[Footnote 278: Barillon, May 2/12 1687.]
[Footnote 279: Memoirs of the Duke of Somerset; Citters, July 5/15.
1687; Eachard's History of the Revolution; Clarke's Life of James the
Second, ii. 116, 117, 118.; Lord Lonsdale's Memoirs.]
[Footnote 280: London Gazette, July 7. 1687; Citters, July 7/17 Account
of the ceremony reprinted among the Somers Tracts.]
[Footnote 281: London Gazette, July 4. 1687.]
[Footnote 282: See the statutes 18 Henry 6. C. 19.; 2 & 3 Ed. 6. C. 2.;
Eachard's History of the Revolution; Kennet, iii. 468.; North's Life of
Guildford, 247.; London Gazette, April 18. May 23. 1687; Vindication of
the E. of R, (Earl of Rochester).]
[Footnote 283: Dryden's Prologues and Cibber's Memoirs contain abundant
proofs of the estimation in which the taste of the Oxonians was held by
the most admired poets and actors.]
[Footnote 284: See the poem called Advice to the Painter upon the Defeat
of the Rebels in the West. See also another poem, a most detestable
one, on the same subject, by Stepney, who was then studying at Trinity
College.]
[Footnote 285: Mackay's character of Sheffield, with Swift's note; the
Satire on the Deponents, 1688; Life of John, Duke of Buckinghamshire,
1729; Barillon, Aug. 30. 1687. I have a manuscript lampoon on Mulgrave,
dated 1690. It is not destitute of spirit. The most remarkable lines are
these:
Peters (Petre) today and Burnet tomorrow,
Knaves of all sides and religions he'll woo.]
[Footnote 286: See the proceedings against the University of Cambridge
in the collection of State Trials.]
[Footnote 287: Wood's Athenae Oxonienses; Apology for the Life of Colley
Cibber; Citters, March 2/12 1686.]
[Footnote 288: Burnet, i. 697.; Letter of Lord Ailesbury printed in the
European Magazine for April 1795.]
[Footnote 289: This gateway is now closed.]
[Footnote 290: Wood's Athenae Oxonienses; Walker's Sufferings of the
Clergy.]
[Footnote 291: Burnet, i. 697.; Tanner's Notitia Monastica. At the
visitation in the twenty-sixth year of Henry the Eighth it appeared that
the annual revenue of King's College was 751l.; of New College, 487l.;
of Magdalene, 1076l.]
[Footnote 292: A Relation of the Proceedings at
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