第784章 CHAPTER XVI(44)

FN 92 As to this controversy， see Burnet， ii. 7， 8， 9.； Grey's Debates， April 19. and 22. 1689； Commons' Journals of April 20. and 22.； Lords' Journals， April 21.

FN 93 Lords' Journals， March 16. 1689.

FN 94 Burnet， ii. 7， 8.

FN 95 Burnet says (ii. 8.) that the proposition to abolish the sacramental test was rejected by a great majority in both Houses.

But his memory deceived him； for the only division on the subject in the House of Commons was that mentioned in the text. It is remarkable that Gwyn and Rowe， who were tellers for the majority， were two of the strongest Whigs in the House.

FN 96 Lords' Journals， March 21. 1689.

FN 97 Lords' Journals， April 5. 1689； Burnet， ii. 10.

FN 98 Commons' Journals， March 28. April 1. 1689； Paris Gazette， April 23. Part of the passage in the Paris Gazette is worth quoting. "Il y eut， ce jour le (March 28)， une grande contestation dans la Chambre Basse， sur la proposition qui fut faite de remettre les séences apres les fetes de Pasques observees toujours par l'Eglise Anglicane. Les Protestans conformistes furent de cet avis； et les Presbyterians emporterent a la pluralite des voix que les seances recommenceroient le Lundy， seconde feste de Pasques." The Low Churchmen are frequently designated as Presbyterians by the French and Dutch writers of that age. There were not twenty Presbyterians， properly so called， in the House of Commons. See A. Smith and Cutler's plain Dialogue about Whig and Tory， 1690.

FN 99 Accounts of what passed at the Conferences will be found in the Journals of the Houses， and deserve to be read.

FN 100 Journals， March 28. 1689； Grey's Debates.

FN 101 I will quote some expressions which have been preserved in the concise reports of these debates. Those expressions are quite decisive as to the sense in which the oath was understood by the legislators who framed it. Musgrave said， "There is no occasion for this proviso. It cannot be imagined that any bill from hence will ever destroy the legislative power." Pinch said， "The words established by law， hinder not the King from passing any bill for the relief of Dissenters. The proviso makes the scruple， and gives the occasion for it." Sawyer said， "This is the first proviso of this nature that ever was in any bill. It seems to strike at the legislative power." Sir Robert Cotton said， "Though the proviso looks well and Healing， yet it seems to imply a defect. Not able to alter laws as occasion requires！ This， instead of one scruple， raises more， as if you were so bound up to the ecclesiastical government that you cannot make any new laws without such a proviso." Sir Thomas Lee said， "It will， Ifear， creep in that other laws cannot be made without such a proviso therefore I would lay it aside."FN 102 Lady Henrietta whom her uncle Clarendon calls "pretty little Lady Henrietta，" and "the best child in the world" (Diary， Jan. 168-I)， was soon after married to the Earl of Dalkeith， eldest son of the unfortunate Duke of Monmouth.

FN 103 The sermon deserves to be read. See the London Gazette of April 14. 1689； Evelyn's Diary； Narcissus Luttrell's Diary； and the despatch of the Dutch Ambassadors to the States General.

FN 104 A specimen of the prose which the Jacobites wrote on this subject will be found in the Somers Tracts. The Jacobite verses were generally too loathsome to be quoted. I select some of the most decent lines from a very rare lampoon "The eleventh of April has come about， To Westminster went the rabble rout， In order to crown a bundle of clouts， a dainty fine King indeed.

"Descended he is from the Orange tree；But， if I can read his destiny， He'll once more descend from another tree， a dainty fine King indeed.

"He has gotten part of the shape of a man， But more of a monkey， deny it who can；He has the head of a goose， but the legs of a crane， A dainty fine King indeed."A Frenchman named Le Noble， who had been banished from his own country for his crimes， but， by the connivance of the police， lurked in Paris， and earned a precarious livelihood as a bookseller's hack published on this occasion two pasquinades， now extremely scarce， "Le Couronnement de Guillemot et de Guillemette， avec le Sermon du grand Docteur Burnet，" and "Le Festin de Guillemot." In wit， taste and good sense， Le Noble's writings are not inferior to the English poem which I have quoted. He tells us that the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of London had a boxing match in the Abbey； that the champion rode up the Hall on an ass， which turned restive and kicked over the royal table with all the plate； and that the banquet ended in a fight between the peers armed with stools and benches， and the cooks armed with spits. This sort of pleasantry， strange to say， found readers； and the writer's portrait was pompously engraved with the motto "Latrantes ride： to tua fama manet."FN 105 Reresby's Memoirs.

FN 106 For the history of the devastation of the Palatinate， see the Memoirs of La Fare， Dangeau， Madame de la Fayette， Villars， and Saint Simon， and the Monthly Mercuries for March and April， 1689. The pamphlets and broadsides are too numerous to quote. One broadside， entitled "A true Account of the barbarous Cruelties committed by the French in the Palatinate in January and February last，" is perhaps the most remarkable.

FN 107 Memoirs of Saint Simon.

FN 108 I will quote a few lines from Leopold's letter to James：