[33] L.J. xi. 276, 286, 299, 310. Kennet, Register and Chronicle 469, 476, 484, 495. Orleans, History of the Revolutions in England 236. Letter from a Person of Quality to a Peer of the Realm, 1661. Collection of Treatises on the Penal Laws, 1675. Continuation of Clarendon’s Life, by himself, 140, 143.
[34] December 6, 1662. Kennet, Register and Chronicle 848–891. Baxter’s Life ii. 429.
[35] February 27, 1663.
[36] July 25, 1663. C.J. Feb. 27, 28, April 27, May 30. L.J. xi. 478, 482, 486, 491, 558, 578. Clarendon 245–249. James i. 428.
[37] For a general statement of the Catholic case see The Catholique Apology, attributed to the Earl of Castlemain, and on the other side An Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government in England, by Andrew Marvell.
[38] Ranke iv. 323. W. A. Shaw, “The Beginnings of the National Debt,” Owens College, Manchester, Historical Essays. Mr. Shaw’s remarkable essay throws a flood of light on the financial difficulties of the early part of the reign. He considers the year 1667, when the Commons attacked the administration and voted a commission to examine public accounts, to be the point beyond which patriotic action could be expected on the part neither of the Commons nor of the king.
[39] Ruvigny, January 17/27, 1675: “Que les finances du roi ne pouvaient pas mieux être employées qu’à la destruction d’un puissant ennemi, qui soutenait tous les autres.”
[40] As to the date of Charles’ conversion see Ranke iv. 383, 384.
[41] Ranke iv. 384–386. Gentleman’s Magazine, January 1866. Lord Acton, “Secret History of Charles II,” Home and Foreign Review i. 146. Hallam ii. 387.
[42] Acton, op. cit. Gentleman’s Mag. January 1866. Boero, Istoria della Conversione alla Chiesa Cattolica de Carlo II. Welwood, Memoirs 146.