[217] Patrick’s Autobiography, 134.
[218] D’Oyley’s Life of Sancroft, i. 265–268.
[219] Evelyn, ii. 285, May 20, 1688.
[220] Mackintosh, 252. He observes, “perhaps the smaller number refers to parochial clergy and the larger to those of every denomination.” We are not aware that other denominations did read it.
[221] Buckden, May 29, 1688, Baker MSS., Cambridge University Library.
[222] In James’s Memoirs, ii. 158, the foolish step of committing the Bishops is attributed to Jeffrey’s influence, and it is added, “When the veil was taken off,” the King “owned it to have been a fatal counsel.”
[223] Reresby’s Memoirs, 347.
“Sir Edward Hales, Lieutenant of the Tower, invited the Bishops to dine on Lord’s Day; but being to receive the sacrament that day, they desired to be excused. He sent them half a buck, and knowing that they would be at church on Lord’s Day, being now sufferers, he, on Saturday night, told Dr. Hawkins he had an express command to deliver to him from the King, to read the Declaration in the Tower Church the next Lord’s Day following. Hawkins, after expressing the most abject kind of loyalty, refused.”—Entring Book, 1688, June 9, Morice MSS.
[224] Entring Book, 1688, June 9, Morice MSS.
[225] Gazette, May 3.