P. 801. Burnet, when it was thought prudent for King James to leave London, the Earl of Middleton suggested that he:—­should go to Rochester; for “since the Prince was not pleased with his coming up from Kent, it might be perhaps acceptable to him, if he should go thither again.”  It was very visible, that this was proposed in order to a second escape.—­Swift.  And why not?

P. 802. Burnet.  Some said, he [James] was now a prisoner, and remembered the saying of King Charles the First, that the prisons and the graves of princes lay not far distant from one another:  The person of the King was now struck at, as well as his government:  And this specious undertaking would now appear to be only a disguised and designed usurpation.—­Swift. All this is certainly true.

P. 803. Burnet.  Now that the Prince was come, all the bodies about the town came to welcome him....  Old Serjeant Maynard came with the men of the law.  He was then near ninety, and yet he said the liveliest thing that was heard of on that occasion.  The Prince took notice of his great age, and said, “that he had outlived all the men of the law of his time:”  He answered, “He had like to have outlived the law itself, if his Highness had not come over.”—­Swift.  He was an old rogue for all that.

P. 805. Burnet, speaking of the first effects of the Revolution upon the Presbyterians in Scotland, says:—­They generally broke in upon the Episcopal clergy with great insolence and much cruelty.  They carried them about the parishes in a mock procession:  They tore their gowns, and drove them from their churches and houses.  Nor did they treat those of them, who had appeared very zealously against Popery, with any distinction.—­Swift.  To reward them for which, King William abolished Episcopacy.

Ibid.  Burnet, The Episcopal party in Scotland saw themselves under a great cloud:  So they resolved all to adhere to the Earl of Dundee, who had served some years in Holland, and was both an able officer, and a man of good parts, and of some very valuable virtues.—­Swift.  He was the best man in Scotland.

P. 806. Burnet, speaking of Londonderry and Inniskilling, says:—­Those two small unfurnished and unfortified places, resolved to stand to their own defence, and at all perils to stay till supplies should come to them from England.—­Swift.  He should have mentioned Doctor Walker, who defended Derry.

P. 807. Burnet.  Those, who were employed by Tyrconnell to deceive the Prince, made their applications by Sir William Temple, who had a long and well established credit with him.—­Swift. A lie of a Scot; for Sir William Temple did not know Tyrconnell.

P. 807. Burnet. Others thought, that the leaving Ireland in that dangerous state, might be a mean to bring the convention to a more speedy settlement of England; and that therefore the Prince ought not to make too much haste to relieve Ireland.—­Swift. That is agreed to be the true reason, and it was a wicked one.