[The History of England from the Accession of James II. by Thomas Babington Macaulay]@TWC D-Link book
The History of England from the Accession of James II.

CHAPTER X
334/460

Je ne doute pas que cette affaire ne soit entierement assoupie, et que le regne du Roy sera heureux, Ce que Dieu veuille." July 10/20] [Footnote 223: The treaty will be found in the Recueil des Traites, iv.
No.

209.] [Footnote 224: Burnet, i.

762.] [Footnote 225: Temple's Memoirs.] [Footnote 226: See the poems entitled The Converts and The Delusion.] [Footnote 227: The lines are in the Collection of State Poems.] [Footnote 228: Our information about Wycherly is very scanty; but two things are certain, that in his later years he called himself a Papist, and that he received money from James.

I have very little doubt that he was a hired convert.] [Footnote 229: See the article on him in the Biographia Britannica.] [Footnote 230: See James Quin's account of Haines in Davies's Miscellanies; Tom Brown's Works; Lives of Sharpers; Dryden's Epilogue to the Secular Masque.] [Footnote 231: This fact, which escaped the minute researches of Malone, appears from the Treasury Letter Book of 1685.] [Footnote 232: Leeuwen, Dec 25/Jan 4 1685/6] [Footnote 233: Barillon,--Jan 31/Feb 10 1686/7.

"Je crois que, dans le fond, si on ne pouvoit laisser que la religion Anglicane et la Catholique etablies par les loix, le Roy d'Angleterre en seroit bien plus content."] [Footnote 234: It will be round in Wodrow, Appendix, vol.ii.No.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books