Identifier: historyofenglandm05macauoft (find matches)
Title: The history of England, from the accession of James the Second
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859 Firth, C. H. (Charles Harding), 1857-1936
Subjects: Great Britain -- History James II, 1685-1688 Great Britain -- History William and Mary, 1689-1702
Publisher: London : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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emarkable that the Lord President, at the very time at whichhe was insulted as a Williamite at Bath, was considered as a stanchConduct of Jacobite at Saint Germains. How he came to be so con-Caermarthen 3i(jg,.g(^( jg g. most perplexing question. Some writers areof opinion that he, like Shrewsbury, Russell, Godolphin, and Marl-borough, entered into engagements with one king while eating thebread of the other. But this opinion does not rest on sufficient proofs. LHermitage, Sept. y\. 1693; Narcissus Luttrells Diary. ^Observator, Jan. 2. 170J ; Narcissus Luttrells Diary. ^ Narcissus Luttrells Diary. In a pamphlet published at this time, and entitled A Dialoguebetween Whig and Tory, the Whig alludes to the public insolences at the Bath upon the latedefeat in Flanders. The Tory answers, I know not what some hotheaded drunken men mayhave said and done at the Bath or elsewhere. In the folio Colection of State Tracts, thisDialogue is erroneously said to have been printed about November 1692.
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< qo u.Oi a 2376 HISTORY OF ENGLAND chap, xx Ahdiit tlic treasons of Shrew shiny, of Russell, of (iOtlolphin, and ofMariboroui^h, we have a great mass of evidenee, derived from varioussources, and extending over several years. But all the informationw hJL-h we possess about Caermarthens dealings with James is containedin a single short paper written by IMelfort on the sixteenth of October1693. i-rom that paper it is quite clear that some intelligence hadreached the banished King and his Ministers which led them to regardCaermarthen as a friend. But there is no proof that they ever soregarded him, either before that day or after that day. On the whole,the most probable explanation of this mystery seems to be that Caer-marthen had been sounded by some Jacobite emissary much less artfulthan himself, and had, for the purpose of getting at the bottom ofthe new scheme of policy devised by Middleton, pretended to be welldisposed to the cause of the banished King, that an exaggeratedaccoun

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