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It is in a newsletter in the Mackintosh Collection.] [Footnote 400: See the proceedings in the Collection of State Trials.
I have taken some touches from Johnstone, and some from Van Citters.] [Footnote 401: Johnstone, July 2.
1688; Letter from Mr.Ince to the Archbishop, dated at six o'clock in the morning; Tanner MS.; Revolution Politics.] [Footnote 402: Johnstone, July 2.
1688.] [Footnote 403: State Trials; Oldmixon, 739.; Clarendon's Diary, June 25, 1688; Johnstone, July 2.; Citters, July 3/13 Adda, July 6/16; Luttrell's Diary; Barillon, July 2/12] [Footnote 404: Citters, July 3/13 The gravity with which he tells the story has a comic effect.
"Den Bisschop van Chester, wie seer de partie van het hof houdt, om te voldoen aan syne gewoone nieusgierigheyt, hem op dien tyt in Westminster Hall mede hebbende laten vinden, in het uytgaan doorgaans was uytgekreten voor een grypende wolf in schaaps kleederen; en by synde een beer van hooge stature en vollyvig, spotsgewyse alomme geroepen was dat men voor hem plaats moeste maken, om te laten passen, gelyck ook geschiede, om dat soo sy uytschreeuwden en hem in het aansigt seyden, by den Paus in syn buyck hadde."] [Footnote 405: Luttrell; Citters, July 3/13.
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