Page 253, l. 23. He served under Turenne in four campaigns, 1652-5,
latterly as Lieutenant-General. His own account of these campaigns has
fortunately been preserved. It is a portion of the journal to which
Burnet refers. See _The Life of James the Second King of England,
etc., collected out of memoirs writ of his own hand.... Published from
the original Stuart manuscripts in Carlton-House_, edited by James
Stanier Clarke, 2 vols, 1816.
Page 254, l. 20. After the surrender at Oxford on June 24, 1646, James
was given into the charge of the Earl of Northumberland and confined
at St. James's. See _Life_, ed. J.S. Clarke, vol. i, pp. 30-1, and
Clarendon, vol. iv, pp. 237, and 326-8.
Page 255, l. 3. Richard Stuart (1594-1651), 'the dean of the King's
chapel, whom his majesty had recommended to his son to instruct him in
all matters relating to the Church' (Clarendon, vol. iv, p. 341). See
Wood's _Athenæ Oxonienses_, ed. Bliss, vol. iii, cols. 295-8, and John
Walker's _Sufferings of the Clergy_, Pt. II, p. 48.
ll. 6-8. The autograph reads (fol. 87): 'He said that a Nun had
advised him to pray every day, that if he was not in the right way
that God would set him right, did make a great impression on him.' The
transcript (p. 127) agrees with the print.
ll. 27-9. James definitely joined the Roman church at the beginning of
1669: see _Life_, ed. J.S. Clarke, vol. i, p. 440.
Page 256, l. 3. As High Admiral he defeated the Dutch at Lowestoft,
1665, and Southwold Bay, 1672. Compare Dryden's _Annus Mirabilis_, ll.
73-4:
Victorious _York_ did first, with fam'd success,
To his known valour make the _Dutch_ give place;
also his _Verses to the Duchess_ on the Duke's victory of June 3,
1665. He ceased to be High Admiral on the passing of the Test Act,
1673.
Page 256, l. 6. Sir William Coventry (1628-86), secretary to James,
1660-7. 'He was the man of the finest parts and the best temper that
belonged to the court:' see his character by Burnet, ed. Airy, vol. i,
pp. 478-9.
ll. 13 ff. Compare Pepys's _Diary_, November 20, 1661, June 27 and
July 2, 1662, June 2, 1663, July 21, 1666, &c.
76.