[3] Own Times, i. 691.
[4] Burnet evidently wished to make William appear as much of a Churchman as possible.
[5] These anecdotes are found in a MS. Life of Hooper, by Prouse. See Life of Ken, by a Layman, 101–3.
[6] Hawkins’ Life of Ken, 7. In the Life of Ken, by a Layman, 105, we are told that William was much offended at the marriage of Count Zulestein with a lady whom he had seduced—which marriage is represented as brought about by Ken, to William’s displeasure. Macaulay, who examined William’s correspondence with Bentinck, on the contrary, informs us of his vexation at learning that one of his household, after ruining a girl of good reputation, refused to marry her. Which is right?
[7] Dalrymple’s Memoirs, i. 183.
[8] Clarendon Correspondence, ii. 484.
[9] Calamy’s Hist. Account, i. 147. He describes the prophetic dream of a Quaker respecting the Revolution, i. 148. Sewell, in his Hist. of the Quakers, ii. 353, speaks of a prophetic letter (containing, I presume, an account of that dream), written by a Quaker at London to his friend, as a forgery.
[10] Dalrymple, iii. appen. part i. 228.
[11] Ibid., 238.
[12] See curious correspondence in Dalrymple, iii. appen. i. 240. Throughout the business it was “diamond cut diamond.”