ased it into sense.]

[Footnote 38: In the Life of Penn which is prefixed to his works, we
are told that the warrants were issued on the 16th of January 1690, in
consequence of an accusation backed by the oath of William Fuller, who
is truly designated as a wretch, a cheat and. an impostor; and this
story is repeated by Mr. Clarkson. It is, however, certainly false.
Caermarthen, writing to William on the 3rd of February, says that there
was then only one witness against Penn, and that Preston was that one
witness. It is therefore evident that Fuller was not the informer on
whose oath the warrant against Penn was issued. In fact Fuller
appears from his Life of himself, to have been then at the Hague. When
Nottingham wrote to William on the 26th of June, another witness had
come forward.]

[Footnote 39: Sidney to William, Feb. 27. 1690,. The letter is in
Dalrymple's Appendix, Part II. book vi. Narcissus Luttrell in his Diary
for September 1691, mentions Penn's escape from Shoreham to France. On
the 5th of December 1693 Narcissus made the following entry: "William
Penn the Quaker, having for some time absconded, and having compromised
the matters against him, appears now in public, and, on Friday last,
held forth at the Bull and Month, in Saint Martin's." On December 18/28.
1693 was drawn up at Saint Germains, under Melfort's direction, a paper
containing a passage of which the following is a translation

"Mr. Penn says that Your Majesty has had several occasions, but never
any so favourable, as the present; and he hopes that Your Majesty
will be earnest with the most Christian King not to neglect it: that a
descent with thirty thousand men will not only reestablish Your Majesty,
but according to all appearance break the league." This paper is among
the Nairne MSS., and was translated by Macpherson.]

[Footnote 40: Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, April 11. 1691.]

[Footnote 41: Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, August 1691; Letter from
Vernon to Wharton, Oct. 17. 1691, in the Bodleian.]

[Footnote 42: The opinion of the Jacobites appears from a letter which
is among the archives of the French War Office. It was written in London
on the 25th of June 1691.]

[Footnote 43: Welwood's Mercurius Reformatus, April 11. 24. 1691;
Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, April 1691; L'Hermitage to the States
General, June 19/29 1696; Calamy's Life. The story of Fenwick's rudeness
to Mary is told in different ways. I have followed what seems to me t