[124] State Papers, 1682, quoted in Smiles’ Huguenots. I have found several other documents on the same subject in the Record Office. The Mayor and Aldermen of Bristol, on the 2nd of January 1682, oddly enough, proposed that fines levied on Dissenters should be applied to the relief of French Protestants.—State Papers, Dom. Charles II.
[125] Life of Tillotson, by Birch, 131.
[126] I find an illustration of the number of refugees who arrived in London, in a curious book I have elsewhere cited, The Happy Future State of England, published in 1688. It is there noticed (p. 122), that they had lately come, and filled 800 of the empty new-built houses of London.
[127] The letter is dated January 2, 1684.—Life of Sancroft, i. 197.
[128] Reresby’s Memoirs, 290.
[129] North’s Lives, ii. 70.
[130] Abridged from North’s Lives, ii. 72.
[131] Palmer’s Nonconformist Memorial, i. 100; Observator, January 29 and 31, 1685; Macaulay, i. 407.
[132] By Ward.
[133] James’ Memoirs, by Clarke, i. 747–9. See Macaulay, ii. 13, for authorities respecting the death of Charles. In the appendix to this volume will be found a copy of the recently discovered MS., which solves a riddle referred to by Macaulay.