had had a little advice, he kept it pretty well to himself.[1] The trial was the clearest thing ever was seen.
June 14th.Langhome and some other priests were also condemned.
15th.I dined with Mr. Harbord, and, falling into discourse of the affairs of the parliament and the succession, he said the only thing that could be done for the good of this nation was to declare and make the Prince of Orange protector, in case the succession fell into the hands of a Roman Catholic Prince; and he made a similitude that was good enough, of a man's leaving £6000 to his
- ↑ The King, James says, in 1679, was convinced of the falsehood of the plot. "Whilst the seeming necessity of his affairs made this unfortunate Prince, for so he may well be termed in this conjuncture, think he could not be safe but by consenting every day to the execution of those he knew in his heart to be most innocent; and as for that notion of letting the law take its course, it was such a piece of casuistry as had been fatal to the King his father."—Life of James II. i. 562.
derland's lodgings, that he told me if I would not concur in points which were so necessary for the people's satisfaction, he would tell every body I was a papist; and, upon his affirming that the plot must be handled as if it were true, whether it were so or not, I replied, with some heat, that the plot was a matter long on foot before I came over into England; that, to understand it, one must have been here to observe all the motions of it, which, not having done, I would have nothing to do with it."—Temple's Works, ii. 506.
