435 ([return])
[ Pepys's Diary, kept at Tangier; Historical Records of the Second or Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot.]
436 ([return])
[ Bloody Assizes, Burnet, i. 647; Luttrell's Diary, July 15, 1685; Locke's Western Rebellion; Toulmin's History of Taunton, edited by Savage.]
437 ([return])
[ Luttrell's Diary, July 15, 1685; Toulmin's Hist. of Taunton.]
438 ([return])
[ Oldmixon, 705; Life and Errors of John Dunton, chap. vii.]
439 ([return])
[ The silence of Whig writers so credulous and so malevolent as Oldmixon and the compilers of the Western Martyrology would alone seem to me to settle the question. It also deserves to be remarked that the story of Rhynsault is told by Steele in the Spectator, No. 491. Surely it is hardly possible to believe that, if a crime exactly resembling that of Rhynsault had been committed within living memory in England by an officer of James the Second, Steele, who was indiscreetly and unseasonably forward to display his Whiggism, would have made no allusion to that fact. For the case of Lebon, see the Moniteur, 4 Messidor, l'an 3.]