76 James Muilenburg 



Macaulay used the important collection of documents and letters of Sir James 

 Mackintosh, but his use of them subjects him to the criticism of partiality and 

 party prejudice. 



9. Mackintosh, Sir James, History of the Revolution in England in 1688, and com- 



pleted to the settlement of the crown, by the Editor, Philadelphia, 1835. 

 Mackintosh had at his disposal the correspondence of the papal nuncio in 

 England, the French ambassador, the Spanish ambassador, and a vast number of 

 the letters of the leaders in England. Besides, there is a large group of documents 

 and miscellaneous letters with which he had thorough acquaintance. The Dutch 

 Archives were open to him, and he uses the extremely interesting Dutch political 

 correspondence to great advantage throughout his work. 



But it is to the Editor of Mackintosh's History that the investigator owes his 

 enthusiastic gratitude. He has taken the sources of Mackintosh and has developed 

 the several episodes of the Revolutionary undertaking with precision. A con- 

 cluding paragraph in the introduction is quite indispensable to an understanding 

 of the use of this work: 



"In the continuation, it will be observed that the glimpses of opinion 

 on the character of the Revolution, and on the characters and motives of 

 the chief persons who figured in it, do not always agree with the views of 

 Sir James Mackintosh. But it should not be forgotten, that Sir James was 

 avowedly and emphatically a Whig of the Revolution, — and that, since the 

 agitation of Religious Liberty and Parliamentary Reform became a national 

 movement, the great transaction of 1688 has been more dispassionately, 

 more correctly, and less highly estimated. The writer of the Continuation 

 believed himself unbiassed by any predilection for either Whigs or Tories, 

 and not only borne out but bound by the facts. He felt in fine that his first 

 duty to the reader and to himself was good faith." 



10. Mazure, F. A. J., Histoire de la Revolution de 1688 en Angleterre, 3 vols., Paris, 



1848. 

 Mazure's account of the Revolution and the steps leading to the Revolution 

 gains consideration from his constant and elaborate use of the records and letters 

 of Barillon, Bonrepaux, and others concerned in the Anglo-French diplomacy of 

 this period. 



11. Miiller, P. L. (Editor), Wilhelm III von Oranien und Georg Friedrich von 



Waldeck, 2 vols., Haag, 1893. 

 The letters of the Prince of Orange and his famous general do not directly 

 concern the period covered in the thesis, but they are very illuminating for an under- 

 standing of William's European politics. The introduction to these letters gives an 

 admirable survey of the period just preceding the Revolution. 



12. Nyevelt, Baron Suzette Van Zuylen van, Court Life in the Dutch Republic, 



1638-1689, London and New York, 1906. 



13. Oldmixon, John, History of England during the Reigtis of the Royal House of 



Stuart, London, 1730. 



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