[180] Barillon, January 16/26, 1679. Despatches of Giacomo Ronchi, secret agent of the Duke of Modena in London, January 20, 1679. Campana de Cavelli i. 239. Memoirs of Thomas, Earl of Ailesbury i. 29.
[181] Lansd. MSS. 1235: 76. North, Examen 202, 204, 205. North alone relates the incident of the pulpit. As Ranke observes, he has never been contradicted, so that the story may be accepted. Burnet ii. 165. Ralph i. 392. Echard 950. Oldmixon 620.
[182] Parl. Hist. iv. 1022. L.J. xiii. 299. House of Lords MSS. i.
[183] Longleat MSS. Coventry Papers xi. 232. The information of October 27 is practically the same as that given below from the Lords’ Journals.
[184] Examination of Charles Atkins, Esq. 6 State Trials 1479. L.J. November 12, 1678.
[185] Evidence of C. Atkins before the Lords’ Committee. 6 State Trials 1474.
[186] 6 State Trials 1473–1492.
[187] 6 State Trials 1484, 1491.
[188] There is unfortunately a gap from October 28 to December 11 in the minutes of the committee of inquiry of the House of Lords, so that it is impossible to check Atkins’ statements exactly.
[189] See 6 State Trials 1476, 1481.