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oath whatsoever. But in the progress of the debate I 
changed my mind, when I understood that the non- 
swearing bishops did not pray for the king and queen by 
name; but only prayed for the king without naming him, 
which was plainly the praying for King James, and so it 
was generally understood. Now it seemed contrary to 
the rules of government to suffer men to minister in holy 
things, and to be in such eminent stations, who con- 
sidered themselves under another allegiance. Upon this 
I changed my mind. By these things I fell under great 
prejudices; but that which was the greatest of all was, 
that it was generally thought that I could have hindered 
the change of the government of the Church that was 
made in Scotland, and that I went into it too easily. The- 
truth was, the king desired me to let the clergy of Eng- 
Jand understand the necessity he lay under to consent to 
it, since the whole episcopal party, a very few only ex- 
cepted, went into King James’s interest; and, therefore, 
since the presbyterians were the only party that he had 
there, the granting of their desires at that time was un- 
avoidable ; but he assured me he would take care to 
moderate the violence of presbytery. And this was like- 
wise promised very solemnly to me by Melvill, who I 
believe did intend it at first; but he, seeing that those 
who were engaged in a faction against him, built their 
hopes chiefly on their interest in that party, he resolved 
to take the party out of their hands, and that he knew 
could not be done but by proceeding with great rigour 
against all the ministers of the episcopal persuasion; and 
in order to this, he entered into a close correspondence 
with the Earl of Crawford, whom he got to be made pre- 
sident of the parliament. And it being universally un- 
derstood that he had Melvill’s secret, he came to bear 
great sway, though he is a very weak and passionate 
man in his temper, and is become furious by his prin- 
ciples; so he, upon every address, turned out ministers, 
and encouraged the rabble to fall on such as gave no 
occasion of complaint against them. ... . Complaints of 
all these things came to England much aggravated; and 
these gave a new quickening to the hatred that was gene- 
rally borne to the dissenters here; for it was in every 
man’s mouth, that it was both unreasonable and unsafe 
for us to show any favour to a party that acted so severely 
against all those of our persuasion, where they had power. 
And because I had, to a great many of the clergy, ex- 
cused what the king had done in Scotland from the ne- 
cessity of his affairs, and had assured them that the king 
would moderate the fury of presbytery, this gave very 
bad impressions of me to the whole body of the clergy.” 
Disposal of the Vacant Sees. — The printed ac- 
count, in his History of his Own Time, of the dis- 
posal of what he calls the vacant sees gt the Re- 
yolution, differs so materially from his own version 
written at the time, that we have transcribed the 
original from the Harl. MS. (6584., p. 314.) for 
the benefit of the ecclesiastical student. It is a 
curious fact, that the bishop has suppressed, in his 
printed account, all notice of Dr. Beveridge’s re- 
tusal to accept the see of Bath and Wells :— 
«The king named Dr, Tillotson to the see of Canter- 
bury; and the Archbishop of York dying soon after, 
Sharp, now Dean of Canterbury, was promoted to that 
see; so that these two sees were in a month’s time filled 
with two of the greatest prelates, the best preachers, and 
the wisest and worthiest men that perhaps ever sat in 
them. Patrick was translated from Chichester to Ely; 
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made Bishop of Bath and Wells. That see had been 
offered to Beveridge, who is a man of great learning, a 
very practical preacher, and a deyout man, and in the 
monastic way too superstitious and singular. He ac- 
cepted of it, but he leaned much to the other side; and 
when he understood that Ken, who held that see, was 
resolved to continue in possession, he afterwards refused 
it: he is a very weak man, and very rough, but honest 
and sincere. Stillingfleet had been made the year before 
Bishop of Worcester; and Hough, that was president of 
Magdalen College, was made Bishop of Oxford. Iron-~ 
side, that had been Vice-chancellor of the University of 
Oxford, had been made Bishop of Bristol. Chester and 
Bangor had fallen vacant that first year of the reign 
[1689], and Stratford and Humphreys had been pro- 
moted to those sees. Thus, in two years’ time, the king 
had made fifteen bishops; and excepting what has been 
said as to myself, it is visible that they are the worthiest 
and learnedest men, the best preachers, and the men 
of the gentlest and prudentest tempers that could be 
found.” 
Marlborough’s Disgrace. —We will, for the 
present, conclude these extracts with the follow- 
ing, which is Burnet’s account of the disgrace of 
the Duke of Marlborough, as originally written. 
This Macaulay (vol. iv. p. 167.) contrasts, as a 
plain tale told while the facts were recent, with 
the shuffling narrative which Burnet prepared for 
the public eye many years later, when Marl- 
borough was closely united to the Whigs: ‘ 
“ About the end of the session of parliament in Eng- 
land, the king called for Marlborough’s commission, and 
dismissed him out of his service. The king said to my- 
self upon it, that he had very good reason to believe that 
he had made his peace with King James, and was en- 
gaged in a correspondence with France. It is certain he 
was doing all he could to set on a faction in his army and 
the nation against the Dutch, and to lessen the king as - 
well as his wife, who was so absolute a favourite with the 
princess [Anne], that she seemed to be the mistress of 
her whole heart and thoughts, and alienating her botlx 
from the king and queen. 
“The queen had taken all possible methods to gain 
her sister, and had left no means unessayed except the 
purchasing her favourite, which she thought below her 
to do; but that being the strongest passion in the prin- 
cess’s breast, all other ways proved ineffectual: so a 
visible coldness grew between the sisters. Many rude 
things were daily said at that court, and they studied to 
render themselves very popular, though with very ill 
success, For the queen grew to be so universally be- 
loved, that nothing could stand against her in the affece 
tions of the nation. 
“Upon Marlborough’s disgrace, his wife was ordered 
to leave the court. This the princess resented so highly, 
that she left the court likewise; for she said, she would 
not have her servants taken from her. All persons that 
had credit with her, tried what could be done to make 
her submit to the queen; but to no purpose. She has 
since that time lived in a private house; and the dis- 
tanee between the sisters has now risen so high, that the 
visiting the princess is looked on as a neglect of the 
queen’s displeasure: so that she is now as much alone as 
can be imagined. The enemies of the government began 
to make a great court tg her, but they fell off from her 
soon; and she fell under so great a neglect, that if she 
did not please herself in an inflexible stiffness of humour, 
Grove was made Bishop of Chichester; Cumberland wag it would be very uneasy to her, 
