The History of England (Vol. 1-5). Томас Бабингтон Маколей

      416. Oldmixon, 704.

      417. Locke's Western Rebellion Stradling's Chilton Priory.

      418. Locke's Western Rebellion Stradling's Chilton Priory; Oldmixon, 704.

      419. Aubrey's Natural History of Wiltshire, 1691.

      420. Account of the manner of taking the late Duke of Monmouth, published by his Majesty's command; Gazette de France, July 18-28, 1688; Eachard, iii. 770; Burnet, i. 664, and Dartmouth's note: Van Citters, July 10-20,1688.

      421. The letter to the King was printed at the time by authority; that to the Queen Dowager will be found in Sir H. Ellis's Original Letters; that to Rochester in the Clarendon Correspondence.

      422. "On trouve," he wrote, "fort a redire icy qu'il ayt fait une chose si peu ordinaire aux Anglois." July 13-23, 1685.

      423. Account of the manner of taking the Duke of Monmouth; Gazette, July 16, 1685; Van Citters, July 14-24,

      424. Barillon was evidently much shocked. "Ill se vient," he says, "de passer icy, une chose bien extraordinaire et fort opposee a l'usage ordinaire des autres nations" 13-23, 1685.

      425. Burnet. i. 644; Evelyn's Diary, July 15; Sir J. Bramston's Memoirs; Reresby's Memoirs; James to the Prince of Orange, July 14, 1685; Barillon, July 16-26; Bucclench MS.

      426. James to the Prince of Orange, July 14, 1685, Dutch Despatch of the same date, Dartmouth's note on Burnet, i. 646; Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, (1848) a copy of this diary, from July 1685 to Sept. 1690, is among the Mackintosh papers. To the rest I was allowed access by the kindness of the Warden of All Souls' College, where the original MS. is deposited. The delegates of the Press of the University of Oxford have since published the whole in six substantial volumes, which will, I am afraid, find little favour with readers who seek only for amusement, but which will always be useful as materials for history. (1857.)

      427. Buccleuch MS; Life of James the Second, ii. 37, Orig. Mem., Van Citters, July 14-24, 1685; Gazette de France, August 1-11.

      428. Buccleuch MS.; Life of James the Second, ii. 37, 38, Orig. Mem., Burnet, i. 645; Tenison's account in Kennet, iii. 432, ed. 1719.

      429. Buccleuch MS.

      430. The name of Ketch was often associated with that of Jeffreys in the lampoons of those days.

      "While Jeffreys on the bench,

       Ketch on the gibbet sits,"

      says one poet. In the year which followed Monmouth's execution Ketch was turned out of his office for insulting one of the Sheriffs, and was succeeded by a butcher named Rose. But in four months Rose himself was hanged at Tyburn, and Ketch was reinstated. Luttrell's Diary, January 20, and May 28, 1686. See a curious note by Dr. Grey, on Hudibras, part iii. canto ii. line 1534.

      431. Account of the execution of Monmouth, signed by the divines who attended him; Buccleuch MS; Burnet, i. 646; Van Citters, July 17-27,1685, Luttrell's Diary; Evelyn's Diary, July 15; Barillon, July 19-29.

      432. I cannot refrain from expressing my disgust at the barbarous stupidity which has transformed this most interesting little church into the likeness of a meetinghouse in a manufacturing town.

      433. Observator, August 1, 1685; Gazette de France, Nov. 2, 1686; Letter from Humphrey Wanley, dated Aug. 25, 1698, in the Aubrey Collection; Voltaire, Dict. Phil. There are, in the Pepysian Collection, several ballads written after Monmouth's death which represent him as living, and predict his speedy return. I will give two specimens.

      "Though this is a dismal story

       Of the fall of my design,

       Yet I'll come again in glory,

       If I live till eighty-nine:

       For I'll have a stronger army

       And of ammunition store."

       Again;

       "Then shall Monmouth in his glories

       Unto his English friends appear,

       And will stifle all such stories

       As are vended everywhere.

       "They'll see I was not so degraded,

       To be taken gathering pease,

       Or in a cock of hay up braided.

       What strange stories now are these!"

      434. London Gazette, August 3, 1685; the Battle of Sedgemoor, a Farce.

      435. Pepys's Diary, kept at Tangier; Historical Records of the Second or Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot.

      436. Bloody Assizes, Burnet, i. 647; Luttrell's Diary, July 15, 1685; Locke's Western Rebellion; Toulmin's History of Taunton, edited by Savage.

      437. Luttrell's Diary, July 15, 1685; Toulmin's Hist. of Taunton.

      438. Oldmixon, 705; Life and Errors of John Dunton, chap. vii.

      439.