Persecution Exposed, by John Whiting.
383. Harl. MS. 6845.
384. One of these weapons may still be seen in the tower.
385. Grey's Narrative; Paschall's Narrative in the Appendix to Heywood's Vindication.
386. Oldmixon, 702.
387. North's Life of Guildford, 132. Accounts of Beaufort's progress through Wales and the neighbouring counties are in the London Gazettes of July 1684. Letter of Beaufort to Clarendon, June 19, 1685.
388. Bishop Fell to Clarendon, June 20; Abingdon to Clarendon, June 20, 25, 26, 1685; Lansdowne MS. 846.
389. Avaux, July 5-15, 6-16, 1685.
390. Van Citters, June 30,/July 10, July 3-13, 21-31,1685; Avaux Neg. July 5-15, London Gazette, July 6.
391. Barillon, July 6-16, 1685; Scott's preface to Albion and Albanius.
392. Abingdon to Clarendon, June 29,1685; Life of Philip Henry, by Bates.
393. London Gazette, June 22, and June 25,1685; Wade's Confession; Oldmixon, 703; Harl. MS. 6845.
394. Wade's Confession.
395. Wade's Confession; Oldmixon, 703; Harl. MS. 6845; Charge of Jeffreys to the grand jury of Bristol, Sept. 21, 1685.
396. London Gazette, June 29, 1685; Wade's Confession.
397. Wade's Confession.
398. London Gazette, July 2,1685; Barillon, July 6-16; Wade's Confession.
399. London Gazette, June 29,1685; Van Citters, June 30,/July 10,
400. Harl. MS. 6845; Wade's Confession.
401. Wade's Confession; Eachard, iii. 766.
402. Wade's Confession.
403. London Gazette, July 6, 1685; Van Citters, July 3-13, Oldmixon, 703.
404. Wade's Confession.
405. Matt. West. Flor. Hist., A. D. 788; MS. Chronicle quoted by Mr. Sharon Turner in the History of the Anglo-Saxons, book IV. chap. xix; Drayton's Polyolbion, iii; Leland's Itinerary; Oldmixon, 703. Oldmixon was then at Bridgewater, and probably saw the Duke on the church tower. The dish mentioned in the text is the property of Mr. Stradling, who has taken laudable pain's to preserve the relics and traditions of the Western insurrection.
406. Oldmixon, 703.
407. Churchill to Clarendon, July 4, 1685.
408. Oldmixon, 703; Observator, Aug. 1, 1685.
409. Paschall's Narrative in Heywood's Appendix.
410. Kennet, ed. 1719, iii. 432. I am forced to believe that this lamentable story is true. The Bishop declares that it was communicated to him in the year 1718 by a brave officer of the Blues, who had fought at Sedgemoor, and who had himself seen the poor girl depart in an agony of distress.
411. Narrative of an officer of the Horse Guards in Kennet, ed. 1718, iii. 432; MS. Journal of the Western Rebellion, kept by Mr. Edward Dummer, Dryden's Hind and Panther, part II. The lines of Dryden are remarkable:
"Such were the pleasing triumphs of the sky
For James's late nocturnal victory.
The fireworks which his angels made above.
The pledge of his almighty patron's love,
I saw myself the lambent easy light
Gild the brown horror and dispel the night.
