[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.