756 ([return])
[ The account of the events of this day I have taken from the Commons' Journals; the valuable work entitled Proceedings in Parliament against Sir John Fenwick, Bart. upon a Bill of Attainder for High Treason, 1696; Vernon's Letter to Shrewsbury, November 6. 1696, and Somers's Letter to Shrewsbury, November 7. From both these letters it is plain that the Whig leaders had much difficulty in obtaining the absolution of Godolphin.]
757 ([return])
[ Commons' Journals, Nov. 9. 1696—Vernon to Shrewsbury, Nov. 10. The editor of the State Trials is mistaken in supposing that the quotation from Caesar's speech was made in the debate of the 13th.]
758 ([return])
[ Commons' Journals, Nov. 13. 16, 17.; Proceedings against Sir John Fenwick.]
759 ([return])
[ A Letter to a Friend in Vindication of the Proceedings against Sir John Fenwick, 1697.]
760 ([return])
[ This incident is mentioned by L'Hermitage.]