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and as strange a reverse, all the Whigs jo'med in 

 opposing it *. And this is represented by other 

 writers as the most remarkable instance of mere 

 party attachments that either this reign or the 

 former had produced. But let the Archbishop's 

 sense of this matter be represented in his own 

 words. 



Diary.— Wednesday, Oct. 24, 1705. " When 

 I came home to dinner, I found that a messen- 

 ger had been sent by the Queen to order me to 

 wait on her at five o'clock in the evening. Her 

 business was to tell me what she had heard. 

 That a motion would be made in our House to 

 send for the Princess of Hanover over, in pur- 

 suance of what my Lord Rochester had threat- 

 ened in a speech the last Parliament, and to 

 persuade me to use my interest with my friends 

 not to come into that motion ; which I readily 

 promised her, and told her, that I would always 

 oppose it, as looking upon that project to 

 proceed from nothing but a pique to her Ma- 

 jesty." 



Saturday, October 27, 1705. " I then went 

 to make a visit to my Lord Rochester, where I 

 talked with him about his speech the last Par- 

 liament, about calling in the heir of the House 

 of Hanover, which I took occasion to oppose as 



* Burnet's History, vol. II. p. 43(1. 



