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The History of England from the Accession of James II.by Thomas Babington Macaulay.Volume 1.CHAPTER I.I PURPOSE to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living. I sh
- 71 [Footnote 580: North's Life of Guildford, 220.; Jeffreys' Elegy; Luttrell's Diary; Oldmixon, 762. Oldmixon was in the crowd, and was, I doubt not, one of the most furious there. He tells the story well. Ellis Correspondence; Barnet, i. 797. and Onslow
- 70 [Footnote 535: Reresby's Memoirs; Clarke's. Life of James, ii. 231.Orig. Mem.][Footnote 536: Cibber's Apology History of the Desertion; Luttrell's Diary; Second Collection of Papers, 1688.][Footnote 537: Whittle's Diary; History of the Desertion; Lut
- 69 [Footnote 490: London Gazette, Oct. 18. 1688.][Footnote 491: "Vento Papista." says Adda Oct 24/Nov 3 1688. The expression Protestant wind seems to have been first applied to the wind which kept Tyrconnel, during some time, from taking possession of the
- 68 [Footnote 442: Luttrell's Diary, Aug. 8. 1688.][Footnote 443: This is told us by three writers who could well remember that time, Kennet, Eachard, and Oldmixon. See also the Caveat against the Whigs.][Footnote 444: Barillon, Aug 24/Sept 1 1688; Sept. 3/1
- 67 [Footnote 395: Ibid.][Footnote 396: Johnstone, July 2. 1688. The editor of Levinz's reports expresses great wonder that, after the Revolution, Levinz was not replaced on the bench. The facts related by Johnstone may perhaps explain the seeming injustice.
- 66 [Footnote 345: Ibid. Feb. 21. 1688.][Footnote 346: Johnstone, Feb. 21. 1688.][Footnote 347: Citters, March 20/30 1688.][Footnote 348: Ibid. May 1/11 1688.][Footnote 349: Citters, May 22/June 1 1688.][Footnote 350: Ibid. May 1/11 1688.][Footnote 351: Ibid.
- 65 [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 ro
- 64 [Footnote 260: "Le Prince d'Orange, qui avoit elude jusqu'alors de faire une reponse positive, dit qu'il ne consentira jamais a la suppression du ces loix qui avoient ete etablies pour le maintien et la surete de la religion Protestante, et que sa con
- 63 [Footnote 214: Sept. 6. 1679.][Footnote 215: See Swift's account of her in the Journal to Stella.][Footnote 216: Henry Sidney's Journal of March 31. 1680, in Mr.Blencowe's interesting collection.][Footnote 217: Speaker Onslow's note on Burnet, i. 596.
- 62 [Footnote 164: Sheridan MS. among the Stuart Papers. I ought to acknowledge the courtesy with which Mr. Glover a.s.sisted me in my search for this valuable ma.n.u.script. James appears, from the instructions which he drew up for his son in 1692, to have r
- 61 Another Roman Catholic treatise, ent.i.tled "The Church of England truly represented," begins by informing us that "the ignis fatuus of reformation, which had grown to a comet by many acts of spoil and rapine, had been ushered into England, purified of
- 60 [Footnote 77: Account of the commissioners, dated March 15. 1688.][Footnote 78: "Le Roi d'Angleterre connait bien que les gens mal intentionnes pour lui sont les plus prompts et les plus disposes a donner considerablement.... Sa Majeste Britannique conn
- 59 And again "They talk of his hectoring and proud carriage; what could be more humble than for a man in his great post to cry and sob?" In the answer to the Panegyric it is said that "his having no command of his tears spoiled him for a hypocrite."][Foo
- 58 Some questions of great moment were still open to dispute. Our const.i.tution had begun to exist in times when statesmen were not much accustomed to frame exact definitions. Anomalies, therefore, inconsistent with its principles and dangerous to its very
- 57 No prelate voted in the majority except Compton and Trelawney. [649]It was near nine in the evening before the House rose. The following day was the thirtieth of January, the anniversary of the death of Charles the First. The great body of the Anglican cl
- 56 [628] His admirers were able to boast, and his enemies seem not to have been able to deny, that the sense of the const.i.tuent bodies was fairly taken. It is true that he risked little. The party which was attached to him was triumphant, enthusiastic, ful
- 55 The resolution of the Lords appeared to be unanimous. But there were in the a.s.sembly those who by no means approved of the decision in which they affected to concur, and who wished to see the King treated with a severity which they did not venture openl
- 54 NORTHUMBERLAND strictly obeyed the injunction which had been laid on him, and did not open the door of the royal apartment till it was broad day. The antechamber was filled with courtiers who came to make their morning bow and with Lords who had been summ
- 53 "I must make examples, Churchill above all; Churchill whom I raised so high. He and he alone has done all this. He has corrupted my army.He has corrupted my child. He would have put me into the hands of the Prince of Orange, but for G.o.d's special prov
- 52 Cornbury was soon kept in countenance by a crowd of deserters superior to him in rank and capacity: but during a few days he stood alone in his shame, and was bitterly reviled by many who afterwards imitated his example and envied his dishonourable preced
- 51 Nevertheless it would, in his judgment, be for his service and for their own honour that they should publicly vindicate themselves. He therefore required them to draw up a paper setting forth their abhorrence of the Prince's design. They remained silent:
- 50 Avaux, in conformity with his instructions, demanded an audience of the States. It was readily granted. The a.s.sembly was unusually large. The general belief was that some overture respecting commerce was about to be made; and the President brought a wri
- 49 The violence and audacity which the apostate Williams had exhibited throughout the trial of the Bishops had made him hateful to the whole nation. [433] He was recompensed with a baronetcy. Holloway and Powell had raised their character by declaring that,
- 48 Actuated by these sentiments our ancestors arrayed themselves against the government in one huge and compact ma.s.s. All ranks, all parties, all Protestant sects, made up that vast phalanx. In the van were the Lords Spiritual and Temporal. Then came the l
- 47 Before the day of trial the agitation had spread to the farthest corners of the island. From Scotland the Bishops received letters a.s.suring them of the sympathy of the Presbyterians of that country, so long and so bitterly hostile to prelacy. [386] The
- 46 Peterborough was induced, by royal mediation, to compromise his action.Sawyer was dismissed. Powis became Attorney General. Williams was made Solicitor, received the honour of knighthood, and was soon a favourite.Though in rank he was only the second law
- 45 The nature of the academical system of England is such that no event which seriously affects the interests and honour of either University can fail to excite a strong feeling throughout the country. Every successive blow, therefore, which fell on Magdalen
- 44 When the appointed day arrived, a great concourse filled the Council chamber. Jeffreys sate at the head of the board. Rochester, since the white staff had been taken from him, was no longer a member. In his stead appeared the Lord Chamberlain, John Sheffi
- 43 The Earl of Bedford had never recovered from the effects of the great calamity which, four years before, had almost broken his heart. From private as well as from public feelings he was adverse to the court: but he was not active in concerting measures ag
- 42 Of the numerous pamphlets in which the cause of the Court and the cause of the Church were at this time eagerly and anxiously pleaded before the Puritan, now, by a strange turn of fortune, the arbiter of the fate of his persecutors, one only is still reme
- 41 The chief object of his care was not our island, not even his native Holland, but the great community of nations threatened with subjugation by one too powerful member. Those who commit the error of considering him as an English statesman must necessarily
- 40 Patrick and Jane said little; nor was it necessary that they should say much; for the Earl himself undertook to defend the doctrine of his Church, and, as was his habit, soon warmed with conflict, lost his temper, and asked with great vehemence whether it
- 39 The answer was so unpleasing to James that he did not suffer it to be printed in the Gazette. Soon he learned that a law, such as he wished to see pa.s.sed, would not even be brought in. The Lords of Articles, whose business was to draw up the acts on whi
- 38 Scarcely less infamous was the conduct of Obadiah Walker. He was an aged priest of the Church of England, and was well known in the University of Oxford as a man of learning. He had in the late reign been suspected of leaning towards Popery, but had outwa
- 37 That at this conjuncture these two great spiritual powers, once, as it seemed, inseparably allied, should have been opposed to each other, is a most important and remarkable circ.u.mstance. During a period of little less than a thousand years the regular
- 36 The History of England from the Accession of James II.by Thomas Babington Macaulay.CHAPTER VI The Power of James at the Height--His Foreign Policy--His Plans of Domestic Government; the Habeas Corpus Act--The Standing Army--Designs in favour of the Roman
- 35 [Footnote 447: This I can attest from my own childish recollections.][Footnote 448: Lord Lonsdale says seven hundred; Burnet six hundred. I have followed the list which the Judges sent to the Treasury, and which may still be seen there in the letter book
- 34 Edward Dummer, Dryden's Hind and Panther, part II. The lines of Dryden are remarkable: "Such were the pleasing triumphs of the sky For James's late nocturnal victory.The fireworks which his angels made above.The pledge of his almighty patron's love, I
- 33 [Footnote 366: London Gazette, June 18, 1685; Wade's Confession, Hardwicke Papers.][Footnote 367: Lords' Journals, June 13,1685.][Footnote 368: Wade's Confession; Ferguson MS.; Axe Papers, Harl. MS.6845, Oldmixon, 701, 702. Oldmixon, who was then a boy
- 32 [Footnote 320: London Gazette, January, 4, 1684-5; Ferguson MS. in Eachard's History, iii. 764; Grey's Narratives; Sprat's True Account, Danvers's Treatise on Baptism; Danvers's Innocency and Truth vindicated; Crosby's History of the English Baptist
- 24 The misery of the exiles fully equalled that of the negroes who are now carried from Congo to Brazil. It appears from the best information which is at present accessible that more than one fifth of those who were s.h.i.+pped were flung to the sharks befor
- 23 Monmouth was obstinate. He had prayed, he said, for the divine direction. His sentiments remained unchanged; and he could not doubt that they were correct. Tenison's exhortations were in milder tone than those of the Bishops. But he, like them, thought t
- 22 While he was thus wavering between projects equally hopeless, the King's forces came in sight. They consisted of about two thousand five hundred regular troops, and of about fifteen hundred of the Wilts.h.i.+re militia.Early on the morning of Sunday, the
- 31 "At Doctor fictus non fictos pertulit ictus A tortore datos haud molli in corpore gratos, Disceret ut vere scelera ob commissa rubere."The anagram of his name, "Testis Ovat," may be found on many prints published in different countries.][Footnote 276:
- 30 [Footnote 233: The chief sources of information concerning Jeffreys are the State Trials and North's Life of Lord Guildford. Some touches of minor importance I owe to contemporary pamphlets in verse and prose.Such are the b.l.o.o.d.y a.s.sizes the life a
- 29 [Footnote 190: Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting, London Gazette, May 31, 1683; North's Life of Guildford.][Footnote 191: The great prices paid to Varelst and Verrio are mentioned in Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting.][Footnote 192: Petty's Political Arit
- 28 [Footnote 145: Loidis and Elmete; Marshall's Rural Economy of England, In 1739 Roderic Random came from Scotland to Newcastle on a packhorse.][Footnote 146: Cotton's Epistle to J. Bradshaw.][Footnote 147: Anthony a Wood's Life of himself.][Footnote 148
- 27 [Footnote 99: Magna Britannia; Grose's Antiquities; New Brighthelmstone Directory.][Footnote 100: Tour in Derbys.h.i.+re, by Thomas Browne, son of Sir Thomas.][Footnote 101: Memoires de Grammont; Hasted's History of Kent; Tunbridge Wells, a Comedy, 1678
- 26 [Footnote 55: Pepys's Diary, Feb. 14, 1668-9.][Footnote 56: See the Report of the Bath and Montague case, which was decided by Lord Keeper Somers, in December, 1693.][Footnote 57: During three quarters of a year, beginning from Christmas, 1689, the reven
- 25 [Footnote 18: I am happy to say, that, since this pa.s.sage was written, the territories both of the Rajah of Nagpore and of the King of Oude have been added to the British dominions. (1857.)][Footnote 19: The most sensible thing said in the House of Comm
- 21 The Court and the Parliament had been greatly moved by the news from the West. At five in the morning of Sat.u.r.day the thirteenth of June, the King had received the letter which the Mayor of Lyme had despatched from Honiton. The Privy Council was instan
- 20 All thought of prosecuting the war was at an end: and it was plain that the chiefs of the expedition would have sufficient difficulty in escaping with their lives. They fled in different directions. Hume reached the Continent in safety. Cochrane was taken
- 19 By the English exiles he was joyfully welcomed, and unanimously acknowledged as their head. But there was another cla.s.s of emigrants who were not disposed to recognise his supremacy. Misgovernment, such as had never been known in the southern part of ou
- 18 Not a cheer was heard. Not a member ventured to second the motion.Indeed, Seymour had said much that no other man could have said with impunity. The proposition fell to the ground, and was not even entered on the journals. But a mighty effect had been pro
- 17 He would have nothing but longwinded cant without book;" and then his Lords.h.i.+p turned up his eyes, clasped his hands, and began to sing through his nose, in imitation of what he supposed to be Baxter's style of praying "Lord, we are thy people, thy
- 16 The turpitude of these transactions is universally acknowledged: but their real nature seems to be often misunderstood: for though the foreign policy of the last two Kings of the House of Stuart has never, since the correspondence of Barillon was exposed
- 15 Barillon hastened to the bedchamber, took the Duke aside, and delivered the message of the mistress. The conscience of James smote him. He started as if roused from sleep, and declared that nothing should prevent him from discharging the sacred duty which
- 14 [182] In a few months experimental science became all the mode. The transfusion of blood, the ponderation of air, the fixation of mercury, succeeded to that place in the public mind which had been lately occupied by the controversies of the Rota. Dreams o
- 13 The chief cause which made the fusion of the different elements of society so imperfect was the extreme difficulty which our ancestors found in pa.s.sing from place to place. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inv
- 12 The most eminent of these towns were indeed known in the seventeenth century as respectable seats of industry. Nay, their rapid progress and their vast opulence were then sometimes described in language which seems ludicrous to a man who has seen their pr
- 11 Such was the ordinary character of those who were then called gentlemen Captains. Mingled with them were to be found, happily for our country, naval commanders of a very different description, men whose whole life had been pa.s.sed on the deep, and who ha
- 10 While the two factions were struggling, G.o.dolphin, cautious, silent, and laborious, observed a neutrality between them. Sunderland, with his usual restless perfidy, intrigued against them both. He had been turned out of office in disgrace for having vot
- 9 Shortly after the prorogation came a dissolution and another general election. The zeal and strength of the opposition were at the height.The cry for the Exclusion Bill was louder than ever, and with this cry was mingled another cry, which fired the blood
- 8 Hitherto the Commons had not declared against the Dutch war. But, when the King had, in return for money cautiously doled out, relinquished his whole plan of domestic policy, they fell impetuously on his foreign policy. They requested him to dismiss Bucki
- 7 Our ancestors naturally looked with serious alarm on the growing power of France. This feeling, in itself perfectly reasonable, was mingled with other feelings less praiseworthy. France was our old enemy. It was against France that the most glorious battl
- 6 With the fear and hatred inspired by such a tyranny contempt was largely mingled. The peculiarities of the Puritan, his look, his dress, his dialect, his strange scruples, had been, ever since the time of Elizabeth, favourite subjects with mockers. But th
- 5 To create a House of Lords was a less easy task. Democracy does not require the support of prescription. Monarchy has often stood without that support. But a patrician order is the work of time. Oliver found already existing a n.o.bility, opulent, highly
- 4 The change which the Houses proposed to make in our inst.i.tutions, though it seems exorbitant, when distinctly set forth and digested into articles of capitulation, really amounts to little more than the change which, in the next generation, was effected
- 3 The ecclesiastical administration was, in the meantime, princ.i.p.ally directed by William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury. Of all the prelates of the Anglican Church, Laud had departed farthest from the principles of the Reformation, and had drawn nearest
- 2 Since these men could not be convinced, it was determined that they should be persecuted. Persecution produced its natural effect on them.It found them a sect: it made them a faction. To their hatred of the Church was now added hatred of the Crown. The tw
- 1 The History of England from the Accession of James II.by Thomas Babington Macaulay.Volume 1.CHAPTER I.I PURPOSE to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living. I sh