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told me how glad he was of Wakeman’s being acquitted,[1] “for,” saith he, “it is much better for us Mutineers."[2] He gave me great charge to remember his pills.
21st.Mr. Hide came to me,[3] and carried me
- ↑ Evelyn tells us that he was present at Sir G. Wakeman's trial, and gives an interesting account of it: he adds, "This was a happy day for the Lords in the Tower, who, expecting their trial, had this gone against the prisoners, would all have been in the utmost hazard."—Evelyn's Diary, i., 509.
- ↑ The name given to the most violent of the popular party.
- ↑ This visit of Hide's to Mr. Sidney, just upon the eve ofhis departure. was taken advantage of in aftertimes by Lord Sunderland, to create a jealousy against him when he was Earl of Rochester and high in the favour of King James. "My Lord Sunderland," says Barillon, in one of his dispatches to Louis, dated the 26th November, 1685, "has told me a thing of great consequence, which, if it be true, and the King of England should know it, will diminish greatly the credit of my Lord Rochester—it is that, when Mr. Sidney was going into Holland, my Lord Rochester begged to see him the last, and only a minute before his embarkation with Bentinck. In this interview. my Lord Rochester told Mr. Sidney that he had one piece of advice to give to the Prince of Orange, which was to come to England, whatever it might cost, and even in spite of the King of England, and that it was the sole and only means to set things right, which, if they took a bad course, it would be impossible in the end to remedy. Mr. Sidney acquitted himself of his commission, and said that the Prince of Orange was moved, but did not dare to hazard coming,". . ."I see plainly the motive of my Lord Sunderland, in telling me a thing of this importance, has been to deprive me of all confidence in Lord Rochester, and to make me regard him as
