[289] See Macpherson’s Orig. Papers, i. 514, 595.
[290] Burnet, i. 683.
[291] It appears, in the course of Fenwick’s trial, that he had said Shrewsbury came into the office of Secretary to William “by the operation and consent of King James.”—Parl. Hist., v. 1051.
[292] State Papers: Shrewsbury to William III., Whitehall, Sept. 8, 1696.
In Macpherson’s Original Papers, i. 481, Captain Floyd, a Jacobite emissary, tells James that Shrewsbury, according to his mother’s account, accepted the seals of office from the Prince of Orange “only in order to serve your Majesty more effectually hereafter.”
[293] The substance of his discoveries is given in Tindal’s History.
[294] Parl. Hist., v. 1127–1130.
[295] Memoirs of Tenison, 62.
[296] Ibid., 63.
[297] Burnet, ii. 193.