rillon, Aug. 19/29]

[Footnote 302: Barillon, Sept. 13/23 1686. "La succession est une
matiere fort delicate a traiter. Je sais pourtant qu'on en parle au Roy
d'Angleterre, et qu'on ne desespere pas avec le temps de trouver
des moyens pour faire passer la couronne sur la tete d'un heritier
Catholique."]

[Footnote 303: Bonrepaux, July 11/21. 1687.]

[Footnote 304: Bonrepaux to Seignelay, Aug 25/Sept 4 1687. I will
quote a few words from this most remarkable despatch: "je scay bien
certainement que l'intention du Roy d'Angleterre est de faire perdre ce
royaume (Ireland) a son successeur, et de le fortifier en sorte que tous
ses sujets Catholiques y puissent avoir un asile assure. Son projet est
de mettre les choses en cet estat dans le cours de cinq annees." In the
Secret Consults of the Romish Party in Ireland, printed in 1690,
there is a passage which shows that this negotiation had not been kept
strictly secret. "Though the King kept it private from most of his
council, yet certain it is that he had promised the French King the
disposal of that government and kingdom when things had attained to that
growth as to be fit to bear it."]

[Footnote 305: Citters, Oct 28/Nov 7, Nov 22/Dec 2 1687; the Princess
Anne to the Princess of Orange, March 14. and 20. 1687/8; Barillon,
Dec. 1/11 1687; Revolution Politics; the song "Two Toms and a Nat;"
Johnstone, April 4. 1688; Secret Consults of the Romish Party in
Ireland, 1690.]

[Footnote 306: The king's uneasiness on this subject is strongly
described by Ronquillo, Dec. 12/22 1687 "Un Principe de Vales y un
Duque de York y otro di Lochaosterna (Lancaster, I suppose,) no bastan a
reducir la gente; porque el Rey tiene 54 anos, y vendra a morir, dejando
los hijos pequenos, y que entonces el reyno se apoderara dellos, y los
nombrara tutor, y los educara en la religion protestante, contra la
disposicion que dejare el Rey, y la autoridad de la Reyna."]

[Footnote 307: Three lists framed at this time are extant; one in the
French archives, the other two in the archives of the Portland family.
In these lists every peer is entered under one of three heads, For the
Repeal of the Test, Against the Repeal, and Doubtful. According to one
list the numbers were, 31 for, 86 against, and 20 doubtful; according to
another, 33 for, 87 against, and 19 doubtful; according to the third, 35
for, 92 against, and 10 doubtful. Copies of the three lists are in the
Mackintosh MSS.]

[Footnote 308: