[205] Hume's History of England, vol. x. chap. 69.
[206] Rapin's History of England, 1731, vol. xiv., p. 333.
[207] Burnet's History of his Own Times.
[208] Burnet's History of his Own Times, 12mo., 1725, vol. ii., p. 260.
[209] Mr. Fox, in his history above-mentioned.
[210] Burnet and Tillotson thought so too, when James II. afterwards forced the church to declare one way or other.
[211] In his Journal, Burnet says that he often sung "within himself," but that the words were not audible. When his companion asked him what he was singing, he said the beginning of the 119th Psalm. It is stated in the Life by his descendant (who has added some original passages from papers at Woburn), that "just as they were entering Lincoln's Inn Fields, he said, 'This has been to me a place of sinning, and God now makes it the place of my punishment.'" He had lived freely in his youth, though he is not the Russell spoken of in the Memoirs of Grammont, as many are led to believe by the engravings of him inserted in that work. The person there mentioned was a cousin.
[212] For complete reports of all the trials connected with the Rye House Plot, and for several pamphlets written pro and con upon Lord Russell's case, see the "State Trials," vol. ix., beginning at p. 357.
[213] We quote the Earl of Bedford's reply from Granger's Biographical History of England, not being able to refer to Orrery, who we believe is the authority for it. Burnet's Journal is to be found at the end of Lord Russell's Life, by his descendants.
[214] Lounger's Common-Place Book, 1805. 8vo. vol. i., p. 301.