[53] Note in Wilson’s Life of Defoe, i. 110.
[54] Tanner MSS., xxviii. 311. Dec. 29, 1688.
[55] Ken’s Life, by a Layman, 324.
[56] See Gazette, Nov.
[57] Life of James II., ii. 209–212.
[58] Sprat’s History of the Desertion, 62. Macpherson mentions a meeting held the same evening by the friends of the Prince of Orange, at which Compton was present. Hist. of Great Britain, i. 530. Original Papers, i. 281. Reresby is referred to as an authority, but I can find nothing about this circumstance in his Diary.
[59] Farnham Castle, Nov. 25, 1688. Tanner MSS., xxviii.
[60] Ralph, i. 1073.
[61] Gazettes under dates.
[62] Clarendon’s Diary, Dec. 3; ii. 214.