[31] Sommers’ Tracts i. 97.
[32] Parl. Hist. iv. 1197, et seq.; Rapin, iii. 198, et seq.
[33] Reresby’s Memoirs, 234. He says that the speech of Halifax, “so all confessed, influenced the House, and persuaded them to throw out the Bill.” The debate took place on the 15th of November.
[34] Rogers’ Life of Howe, 181.
[35] Calamy’s Life of Baxter, 354.
[36] Rogers’ Life of Howe, 183.
[37] Ibid., 187.
[38] “Tillotson’s conduct on this occasion places his amiable character in the fairest light. One can hardly regret that he committed a fault for which he so nobly atoned, and which has furnished us with so impressive an example of ingenuousness, candour, and humility.”—Rogers’ Life of Howe, 190.
[39] There were two Bishop Lloyds at the time; one of Norwich, the other of St. Asaph, consecrated October 3, 1680. It was most likely the latter. We shall meet with him as one of the seven Bishops committed to the Tower in 1688.
[40] Life of Howe, 191, 192.