[115] Thucyd. v. 16.
[116] Evelyn’s Memoirs.
[117] Roger North, Examen, p. 204.
[118] Queen Elizabeth’s birth–day. These processions were in 1679 and 1680.
[119] Life of Edmund Calamy, vol. i. p. 84.
[120] Burnet, Hist. of his own Times, p. 430. Oates had before only deposed to a plot among the Jesuits to murder the king.
[121] North’s Examen, p. 186. Oates, in addition to his personal peculiarities, which are described in a passage presently to be quoted, was remarkable for a drawling way of speech, which is caricatured above, “I, Titus Oates,” &c.
[122] Howell’s State Trials, vol. vii. p. 56.
[123] State Trials, vol. vii. p. 120.
[124] Burnet, p. 468.