26; Revolution Politics.] [Footnote 547: Clarke's Life of James, ii.236.Orig.

Mem.; Burnet, i.
794.: Luttrell's Diary; Clarendon's Diary, Nov.27.

1688; Citters, Nov 27/Dec 7 and Nov 30/Dec 10 Citters evidently had his intelligence from one of the Lords who were present.

As the matter is important I will give two short passages from his despatches.

The King said, "Dat het by na voor hem unmogelyck was to pardoneren persoonen wie so hoog in syn reguarde schuldig stonden, vooral seer uytvarende jegens den Lord Churchill, wien hy hadde groot gemaakt, en nogtans meynde de eenigste oorsake van alle dese desertie en van de retraite van hare Coninglycke Hoogheden te wesen." One of the lords, probably Halifax or Nottingham, "seer hadde geurgeert op de securiteyt van de lords die nu met syn Hoogheyt geengageert staan.