Thomas Babington Macaulay - The History of England (Vol. 1-5)

351.Wodrow, III. ix 10; Western Martyrology; Burnet, i. 633; Fox's History, Appendix iv. I can find no way, except that indicated in the text, of reconciling Rumbold's denial that he had ever admitted into his mind the thought of assassination with his confession that he had himself mentioned his own house as a convenient place for an attack on the royal brothers. The distinction which I suppose him to have taken was certainly taken by another Rye House conspirator, who was, like him, an old soldier of the Commonwealth, Captain Walcot. On Walcot's trial, West, the witness for the crown, said, "Captain, you did agree to be one of those that were to fight the Guards." "What, then, was the reason." asked Chief Justice Pemberton, "that he would not kill the King?" "He said," answered West, "that it was a base thing to kill a naked man, and he would not do it."

352.Wodrow, III. ix. 9.

353.Wade's narrative, Harl, MS. 6845; Burnet, i. 634; Van Citters's Despatch of Oct. 30,/Nov. 9, 1685; Luttrell's Diary of the same date.

354.Wodrow, III, ix. 4, and III. ix. 10. Wodrow gives from the Acts of Council the names of all the prisoners who were transported, mutilated or branded.

355.Skelton's letter is dated the 7-17th of May 1686. It will be found, together with a letter of the Schout or High Bailiff of Amsterdam, in a little volume published a few months later, and entitled, "Histoire des Evenemens Tragiques d'Angleterre." The documents inserted in that work are, as far as I have examined them, given exactly from the Dutch archives, except that Skelton's French, which was not the purest, is slightly corrected. See also Grey's Narrative.—— Goodenough, on his examination after the battle of Sedgemoor, said, "The Schout of Amsterdam was a particular friend to this last design." Lansdowne MS. 1152.—— It is not worth while to refute those writers who represent the Prince of Orange as an accomplice in Monmouth's enterprise. The circumstance on which they chiefly rely is that the authorities of Amsterdam took no effectual steps for preventing the expedition from sailing. This circumstance is in truth the strongest proof that the expedition was not favoured by William. No person, not profoundly ignorant of the institutions and politics of Holland, would hold the Stadtholder answerable for the proceedings of the heads of the Loevestein party.

356.Avaux Neg. June 7-17, 8-18, 14-24, 1685, Letter of the Prince of Orange to Lord Rochester, June 9, 1685.

357.Van Citters, June 9-19, June 12-22,1685. The correspondence of Skelton with the States General and with the Admiralty of Amsterdam is in the archives at the Hague. Some pieces will be found in the Evenemens Tragiques d'Angleterre. See also Burnet, i. 640.

358.Wade's Confession in the Hardwicke Papers; Harl. MS. 6845.

359.See Buyse's evidence against Monmouth and Fletcher in the Collection of State Trials.

360.Journals of the House of Commons, June 13, 1685; Harl. MS. 6845; Lansdowne MS. 1152.

361.Burnet, i. 641, Goodenough's confession in the Lansdowne MS. 1152. Copies of the Declaration, as originally printed, are very rare; but there is one in the British Museum.

362.Historical Account of the Life and magnanimous Actions of the most illustrious Protestant Prince James, Duke of Monmouth, 1683.

363.Wade's Confession, Hardwicke Papers; Axe Papers; Harl. MS. 6845.

364.Harl. MS. 6845.

365.Buyse's evidence in the Collection of State Trials; Burnet i 642; Ferguson's MS. quoted by Eachard.

366.London Gazette, June 18, 1685; Wade's Confession, Hardwicke Papers.

367.Lords' Journals, June 13,1685.

368.Wade's Confession; Ferguson MS.; Axe Papers, Harl. MS. 6845, Oldmixon, 701, 702. Oldmixon, who was then a boy, lived very near the scene of these events.

369.London Gazette, June 18, 1685; Lords' and Commons' Journals, June 13 and 15; Dutch Despatch, 16-26.

370.Oldmixon is wrong in saying that Fenwick carried up the bill. It was carried up, as appears from the Journals, by Lord Ancram. See Delamere's Observations on the Attainder of the Late Duke of Monmouth.

371.Commons' Journals of June 17, 18, and 19, 1685; Reresby's Memoirs.

372.Commons' Journals, June 19, 29, 1685; Lord Lonsdale's Memoirs, 8, 9, Burnet, i. 639. The bill, as amended by the committee, will be found in Mr. Fox's historical work. Appendix iii. If Burnet's account be correct, the offences which, by the amended bill, were made punishable only with civil incapacities were, by the original bill, made capital.

373.1 Jac. II. c. 7; Lords' Journals, July 2, 1685.

374.Lords' and Commons' Journals, July 2, 1685.

375.Savage's edition of Toulmin's History of Taunton.

376.Sprat's true Account; Toulmin's History of Taunton.

377.Life and Death of Joseph Alleine, 1672; Nonconformists' Memorial.

378.Harl. MS. 7006; Oldmixon. 702; Eachard, iii. 763.

379.Wade's Confession; Goodenough's Confession, Harl. MS. 1152, Oldmixon, 702. Ferguson's denial is quite undeserving of credit. A copy of the proclamation is in the Harl. MS. 7006.

380.Copies of the last three proclamations are in the British Museum; Harl. MS. 7006. The first I have never seen; but it is mentioned by Wado.

381.Grey's Narrative; Ferguson's MS., Eachard, iii. 754.

382.Persecution Exposed, by John Whiting.

383.Harl. MS. 6845.

384.One of these weapons may still be seen in the tower.

385.Grey's Narrative; Paschall's Narrative in the Appendix to Heywood's Vindication.

386.Oldmixon, 702.

387.North's Life of Guildford, 132. Accounts of Beaufort's progress through Wales and the neighbouring counties are in the London Gazettes of July 1684. Letter of Beaufort to Clarendon, June 19, 1685.

388.Bishop Fell to Clarendon, June 20; Abingdon to Clarendon, June 20, 25, 26, 1685; Lansdowne MS. 846.

389.Avaux, July 5-15, 6-16, 1685.

390.Van Citters, June 30,/July 10, July 3-13, 21-31,1685; Avaux Neg. July 5-15, London Gazette, July 6.

391.Barillon, July 6-16, 1685; Scott's preface to Albion and Albanius.

392.Abingdon to Clarendon, June 29,1685; Life of Philip Henry, by Bates.

393.London Gazette, June 22, and June 25,1685; Wade's Confession; Oldmixon, 703; Harl. MS. 6845.

394.Wade's Confession.

395.Wade's Confession; Oldmixon, 703; Harl. MS. 6845; Charge of Jeffreys to the grand jury of Bristol, Sept. 21, 1685.

396.London Gazette, June 29, 1685; Wade's Confession.

397.Wade's Confession.

398.London Gazette, July 2,1685; Barillon, July 6-16; Wade's Confession.

399.London Gazette, June 29,1685; Van Citters, June 30,/July 10,

400.Harl. MS. 6845; Wade's Confession.

401.Wade's Confession; Eachard, iii. 766.

402.Wade's Confession.

403.London Gazette, July 6, 1685; Van Citters, July 3-13, Oldmixon, 703.

404.Wade's Confession.

405.Matt. West. Flor. Hist., A. D. 788; MS. Chronicle quoted by Mr. Sharon Turner in the History of the Anglo-Saxons, book IV. chap. xix; Drayton's Polyolbion, iii; Leland's Itinerary; Oldmixon, 703. Oldmixon was then at Bridgewater, and probably saw the Duke on the church tower. The dish mentioned in the text is the property of Mr. Stradling, who has taken laudable pain's to preserve the relics and traditions of the Western insurrection.

406.Oldmixon, 703.

407.Churchill to Clarendon, July 4, 1685.

408.Oldmixon, 703; Observator, Aug. 1, 1685.

409.Paschall's Narrative in Heywood's Appendix.

410.Kennet, ed. 1719, iii. 432. I am forced to believe that this lamentable story is true. The Bishop declares that it was communicated to him in the year 1718 by a brave officer of the Blues, who had fought at Sedgemoor, and who had himself seen the poor girl depart in an agony of distress.

411.Narrative of an officer of the Horse Guards in Kennet, ed. 1718, iii. 432; MS. Journal of the Western Rebellion, kept by Mr. Edward Dummer, Dryden's Hind and Panther, part II. The lines of Dryden are remarkable: