P. 727. Burnet. I come now to the year 1688, which proved memorable, and produced an extraordinary and unheard-of revolution.—­Swift. The Devil’s in that, sure all Europe heard of it.

P. 730. Burnet,after saying that he had been naturalized in Holland, upon marrying one of the subjects of the States, goes on:—­The King took the matter very ill, and said, it was an affront to him, and a just cause of war.—­Swift. Vain fop.

P. 731. Burnet. I never possessed my own soul in a more perfect calm, and in a clearer cheerfulness of spirit, than I did during all those threatenings, and the apprehensions that others were in concerning me.—­Swift. A modest account of his own magnanimity.

P. 746. Burnet. But after all, though soldiers were bad Englishmen and worse Christians, yet the court [of James II.] found them too good Protestants to trust much to them.—­Swift.  Special doctrine.

P. 748. Burnet, speaking of the Queen’s expectation of a child, says:—­I will give as full and as distinct an account of all that related to that matter, as I could gather up either at that time or afterwards.—­Swift.  All coffee-house chat.

P. 751. Burnet.  Now a resolution was taken for the Queen’s lying in at St. James’s.—­Swift.  Windsor would have been more suspicious.

P. 752. Burnet, doubting of the legitimacy of the Pretender, and describing the Queen’s manner of lying-in, says:—­The Queen lay all the while a-bed:  And, in order to the warming one side of it, a warming-pan was brought.  But it was not opened, that it might be seen that there was fire and nothing else in it.—­Swift.  This, the ladies say, is foolish.

P. 753. Burnet.  Hemings, a very worthy man,... was reading in his parlour late at night, when he heard one coming into the neighbouring parlour, and say with a doleful voice, “The Prince of Wales is dead”; Upon which ... it was plain, they were in a great consternation.—­Swift.  A most foolish story, hardly worthy of a coffee-house.

Ibid. Burnet.  It was said, that the child was strangely revived of a sudden.  Some of the physicians told Lloyd, Bishop of St. Asaph, that it was not possible for them to think it was the same child.  They looked on one another, but durst not speak what they thought.—­Swift.  So here are three children.

P. 762. Burnet.  The Lord Mordaunt was the first of all the English nobility that came over openly to see the Prince of Orange.—­Swift.  Now Earl of Peterborough.

Ibid. Burnet.  The Earl of Shrewsbury ... seemed to be a man of great probity, and to have a high sense of honour.—­Swift.  Quite contrary.

P. 763. Burnet.  Lord Lumley, who was a late convert from Popery, and had stood out very firmly all this reign.—­Swift.  He was a knave and a coward.