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Speaker Onslow's note; Clarendon to
Rochester, May 8, 1686.
463 Burnet, i. 634.
464 Calamy's Memoirs; Commons' Journals, December 26,1690;
Sunderland to Jeffreys, September 14, 1685; Privy Council Book,
February 26, 1685-6.
465 Lansdowne MS. 1152; Harl. MS. 6845; London Gazette, July 20,
1685.
466 Many writers have asserted, without the slightest
foundation, that a pardon was granted to Ferguson by James. Some
have been so absurd as to cite this imaginary pardon, which, if
it were real would prove only that Ferguson was a court spy, in
proof of the magnanimity and benignity of the prince who beheaded
Alice Lisle and burned Elizabeth Gaunt. Ferguson was not only not
specially pardoned, but was excluded by name from the general
pardon published in the following spring. (London Gazette, March
15, 1685-6.) If, as the public suspected and as seems probable,
indulgence was shown to him; it was indulgence of which James
was, not without reason, ashamed, and which was, as far as
possible, kept secret. The reports which were current in London
at the time are mentioned in the Observator, Aug. 1,1685.
Sir John Reresby, who ought to have been well informed,
positively affirms that Ferguson was taken three days after the
battle of Sedgemoor. But Sir John was certainly wrong as to the
date, and may therefore have been wrong as to the whole story.
From the London Gazette, and from Goodenough's confession
(Lansdowne MS. 1152), it is clear that, a fortnight after the
battle, Ferguson had not been caught, and was supposed to be
still lurking in England.
467 Granger's Biographical History.
468 Burnet, i. 648; James to the Prince of Orange, Sept. 10, and
24, 1685; Lord Lonadale's Memoirs; London Gazette, Oct. 1, 1685.
469 Trial of Cornish in the Collection of State Trials, Sir J.
Hawles's Remarks on Mr. Cornish's Trial; Burnet, i. 651; Bloody
Assizes; Stat. 1 Gul. and Mar.
470 Trials of Fernley and Elizabeth Gaunt, in the Collection of
State Trials Burnet, i. 649; Bloody Assizes; Sir J. Bramston's
Memoirs; Luttrell's Diary, Oct. 23, 1685.
471 Bateman's Trial in the Collection of State Trials; Sir John
Hawles's Remarks. It is worth while to compare Thomas Lee's
evidence on this occasion with his confession previously
published by authority.
472 Van Citters, Oct. 13-23, 1685.
473 Neal's History of the Puritans, Calamy's Account of the
ejected Ministers and the Nonconformists' Memorial contain
abundant proofs of the severity of this persecution. Howe's
farewell letter to his flock will be found in the interesting
life of that great man, by Mr. Rogers. Howe complains that he
could not venture to show himself in the streets of London, and
that his health had suffered from want of air and exercise. But
the most vivid picture of the distress of the Nonconformists is
furnished by their deadly enemy, Lestrange, in the Observators of
September and October, 1685.
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Rochester, May 8, 1686.
463 Burnet, i. 634.
464 Calamy's Memoirs; Commons' Journals, December 26,1690;
Sunderland to Jeffreys, September 14, 1685; Privy Council Book,
February 26, 1685-6.
465 Lansdowne MS. 1152; Harl. MS. 6845; London Gazette, July 20,
1685.
466 Many writers have asserted, without the slightest
foundation, that a pardon was granted to Ferguson by James. Some
have been so absurd as to cite this imaginary pardon, which, if
it were real would prove only that Ferguson was a court spy, in
proof of the magnanimity and benignity of the prince who beheaded
Alice Lisle and burned Elizabeth Gaunt. Ferguson was not only not
specially pardoned, but was excluded by name from the general
pardon published in the following spring. (London Gazette, March
15, 1685-6.) If, as the public suspected and as seems probable,
indulgence was shown to him; it was indulgence of which James
was, not without reason, ashamed, and which was, as far as
possible, kept secret. The reports which were current in London
at the time are mentioned in the Observator, Aug. 1,1685.
Sir John Reresby, who ought to have been well informed,
positively affirms that Ferguson was taken three days after the
battle of Sedgemoor. But Sir John was certainly wrong as to the
date, and may therefore have been wrong as to the whole story.
From the London Gazette, and from Goodenough's confession
(Lansdowne MS. 1152), it is clear that, a fortnight after the
battle, Ferguson had not been caught, and was supposed to be
still lurking in England.
467 Granger's Biographical History.
468 Burnet, i. 648; James to the Prince of Orange, Sept. 10, and
24, 1685; Lord Lonadale's Memoirs; London Gazette, Oct. 1, 1685.
469 Trial of Cornish in the Collection of State Trials, Sir J.
Hawles's Remarks on Mr. Cornish's Trial; Burnet, i. 651; Bloody
Assizes; Stat. 1 Gul. and Mar.
470 Trials of Fernley and Elizabeth Gaunt, in the Collection of
State Trials Burnet, i. 649; Bloody Assizes; Sir J. Bramston's
Memoirs; Luttrell's Diary, Oct. 23, 1685.
471 Bateman's Trial in the Collection of State Trials; Sir John
Hawles's Remarks. It is worth while to compare Thomas Lee's
evidence on this occasion with his confession previously
published by authority.
472 Van Citters, Oct. 13-23, 1685.
473 Neal's History of the Puritans, Calamy's Account of the
ejected Ministers and the Nonconformists' Memorial contain
abundant proofs of the severity of this persecution. Howe's
farewell letter to his flock will be found in the interesting
life of that great man, by Mr. Rogers. Howe complains that he
could not venture to show himself in the streets of London, and
that his health had suffered from want of air and exercise. But
the most vivid picture of the distress of the Nonconformists is
furnished by their deadly enemy, Lestrange, in the Observators of
September and October, 1685.
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