[312] Ralph, ii. 908.

[313] Stanhope’s Queen Anne, 19.

[314] Clarke’s Life of James II., ii. 606.

[315] Clarke’s Life of James II., ii. 590–594.

[316] Life of James II., ii. 598, 599. Memoir of Louis XIV., ii. 184.

The Earl of Middleton is reported to have been converted to Catholicism by this death-bed scene; miracles were absurdly said to be wrought by the dying King’s intercession; and there is reason to believe that, if the Stuart family had been restored, James would have been canonized.—Macpherson’s Original Papers, i. 595–597.

[317] Correspondence of Lord Clarendon, ii. 389.

[318] Life of Calamy, i. 437.

[319] Crosby, iii. 357.

[320] Parl. Hist., v. 1331.