FN 3 L’Hermitage, Dec. 3/13 7/17, 1697.

FN 4 Commons’ Journals, Dec. 3. 1697.  L’Hermitage, Dec 7/17.

FN 5 L’Hermitage, Dec. 15/24., Dec. 14/24., Journals.

FN 6 The first act of Farquhar’s Trip to the Jubilee, the passions which about his time agitated society are exhibited with much spirit.  Alderman Smuggler sees Colonel Standard and exclaims, “There’s another plague of the nation a red coat and feather.”  “I’m disbanded,” says the Colonel.  “This very morning, in Hyde Park, my brave regiment, a thousand men that looked like lions yesterday, were scattered and looked as poor and simple as the herd of deer that grazed beside them.”  “Fal al deral!” cries the Alderman:  “I’ll have a bonfire this night, as high as the monument.”  “A bonfire!” answered the soldier; “then dry, withered, ill nature! had not those brave fellows’ swords’ defended you, your house had been a bonfire ere this about your ears.”

FN 7 L’Hermitage, January 11/21

FN 8 That a portion at least of the native population of Ireland looked to the Parliament at Westminster for protection against the tyranny of the Parliament at Dublin appears from a paper entitled The Case of the Roman Catholic Nation of Ireland.  This paper, written in 1711 by one of the oppressed race and religion, is in a Ms. belonging to Lord Fingall.  The Parliament of Ireland is accused of treating the Irish worse than the Turks treat the Christians, worse than the Egyptians treated the Israelites.  “Therefore,” says the writer, “they (the Irish) apply themselves to the present Parliament of Great Britain as a Parliament of nice honour and stanch justice. . .  Their request then is that this great Parliament may make good the Treaty of Limerick in all the Civil Articles.”  In order to propitiate those to whom he makes this appeal, he accuses the Irish Parliament of encroaching on the supreme authority of the English Parliament, and charges the colonists generally with ingratitude to the mother country to which they owe so much.

FN 9 London Gazette, Jan 6. 1697/8; Postman of the same date; Van Cleverskirke, Jan. 7/17; L’Hermitage, Jan. 4/14/, 7/17; Evelyn’s Diary; Ward’s London Spy; William to Heinsius, Jan. 7/17.  “The loss,” the King writes, “is less to me than it would be to another person, for I cannot live there.  Yet it is serious.”  So late as 1758 Johnson described a furious Jacobite as firmly convinced that William burned down Whitehall in order to steal the furniture.  Idler, No. 10.  Pope, in Windsor Forest, a poem which has a stronger tinge of Toryism than anything else that he ever wrote, predicts the speedy restoration of the fallen palace.

“I see, I see, where two fair cities bend their ample bow, a new Whitehall ascend.”

See Ralph’s bitter remarks on the fate of Whitehall.