[11] Commons’ Journals, October 28. “The Oath of Supremacy was already taken by the Commons, though not by the Lords; and it is a great mistake to imagine that Catholics were legally capable of sitting in the Lower House before the Act of 1679” (1678).—Hallam’s Const. Hist., ii. 121.
[12] Burnet, Hist. of his Own Times, i. 436.
[13] Journals, Nov. 21 and 30; Lingard, xii. 151, 152. Reresby says, (Memoirs, 230), “In April, 1680, I went to London to solicit some business at Court, but the application of all men being to the Duke, who quite engrossed the King to himself, His Highness had but little leisure to give ear to, or assist his friends.”
[14] North’s Lives, i. 340.
[15] Sir Thomas Browne’s Works, i. 241. This relates to a second election for Norwich in the month of May, the first having been set aside. It illustrates both the excitement and the custom of the times. The general election took place in February.
[16] Evelyn’s Diary, ii. 136.
[17] Quoted in D’Oyley’s Life of Sancroft, i. 165–176.
[18] Life of James II., i. 539.
[19] Wilkins, iv. 606.
[20] Ibid., iv. 600.