[The History of England from the Accession of James II. by Thomas Babington Macaulay]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of England from the Accession of James II. CHAPTER X 389/460
758.; Lewis paper bears date Aug 27/Sept 6 1688.
It will be found in the Recueil des Traites, vol.iv.no.
219.] [Footnote 453: For the consummate dexterity with which he exhibited two different views of his policy to two different parties he was afterwards bitterly reviled by the Court of Saint Germains.
"Licet Foederatis publicus ille preado haud aliud aperte proponat nisi ut Galici imperii exuberans amputetur potesias, veruntamen sibi et suis ex haeretica faece complicibus, ut pro comperto habemus, longe aliud promittit, nempe ut, exciso vel enervato Francorum regno, ubi Catholicarum partium summum jam robur situm est, haeretica ipsorum pravitas per orbem Christisnum universum praevaleat."-- Letter of James to the Pope; evidently written in 1689.] [Footnote 454: Avaux Neg., Aug.
2/12 10/20 11/21 14/24 16/26 17/27 Aug 23/Sept 2 1688.] [Footnote 455: Ibid., Sept.
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