nce, there was no affected exaggeration
of matters, nor ostentation of a putid eloquence, one after another, as
in former trials, like so many geese cackling in a row. Here was nothing
besides fair matter of fact, or natural and just reflections from thence
arising." The pamphlet from which I quote these words is entitled, An
Account of the late horrid Conspiracy by a Person who was present at the
Trials, 1691.]

[Footnote 11: State Trials.]

[Footnote 12: Paper delivered by Mr. Ashton, at his execution, to Sir
Francis Child, Sheriff of London; Answer to the Paper delivered by Mr.
Ashton. The Answer was written by Dr. Edward Fowler, afterwards Bishop
of Gloucester. Burnet, ii. 70.; Letter from Bishop Lloyd to Dodwell, in
the second volume of Gutch's Collectanea Curiosa.]

[Footnote 13: Narcissus Luttrell's Diary.]

[Footnote 14: Narcissus Luttrell's Diary; Burnet, ii. 71.]

[Footnote 15: Letter of Collier and Cook to Sancroft among the Tanner
MSS.]

[Footnote 16: Caermarthen to William, February 3. 1690/1; Life of James,
ii. 443.]

[Footnote 17: That this account of what passed is true in substance is
sufficiently proved by the Life of James, ii. 443. I have taken one or
two slight circumstances from Dalrymple, who, I believe, took them from
papers, now irrecoverably lost, which he had seen in the Scotch College
at Paris.]

[Footnote 18: The success of William's "seeming clemency" is admitted by
the compiler of the Life of James. The Prince of Orange's method, it is
acknowledged, "succeeded so well that, whatever sentiments those Lords
which Mr. Penn had named night have had at that time, they proved in
effect most bitter enemies to His Majesty's cause afterwards."-ii. 443.]

[Footnote 19: See his Diary; Evelyn's Diary, Mar. 25., April 22., July
11. 1691; Burnet, ii. 71.; Letters of Rochester to Burnet, March 21. and
April 2. 1691.]

[Footnote 20: Life of James, ii. 443. 450.; Legge Papers in the
Mackintosh Collection.]

[Footnote 21: Burnet, ii. 71; Evelyn's Diary, Jan. 4. and 18. 1690,;
Letter from Turner to Sancroft, Jan. 19. 1690/1; Letter from Sancroft to
Lloyd of Norwich April 2. 1692. These two letters are among the Tanner
MSS. in the Bodleian, and are printed in the Life of Ken by a Layman.
Turner's escape to France is mentioned in Narcissus Luttrell's Diary
for February 1690. See also a Dialogue between the Bishop of Ely and
his Conscience, 16th February 1690/1. The dialogue is interrupted by the