See also the Caveat against the Whigs.] [Footnote 444: Barillon, Aug 24/Sept 1 1688; Sept.

3/13 6/16 8/18] [Footnote 445: Luttrell's Diary, Aug.27.

1688.] [Footnote 446: King's State of the Protestants of Ireland; Secret Consults of the Romish Party in Ireland.] [Footnote 447: Secret Consults of he Romish Party in Ireland.] [Footnote 448: History of the Desertion, 1689; compare the first and second editions; Barillon, Sept.

8/18 1688; Citters of the same date; Clarke's Life of James the Second, ii.168.The compiler of the last mentioned work says that Churchill moved the court to sentence the six officers to death.

This story does not appear to have been taken from the King's papers; I therefore regard it as one of the thousand fictions invented at Saint Germains for the purpose of blackening a character which was black enough without such daubing.