The history of England, from the accession of James the Second . e and country in Christmas week. Mary had died inChristmas week. There could be no doubt that, if the secrets of Provi-dence were disclosed to us, we should find that the turns of the daughterscomplaint in December 1694 bore an exact analogy to the turns ofthe fathers fortune in December 1688. It was at midnight that thefather ran away from Rochester: it was at midnight that the daughter ex-pired. Such was the profundity and such the ingenuity of a writer whomthe Jacobite schismatics justly regarded as one of their ablest chiefs.
The history of England, from the accession of James the Second . e and country in Christmas week. Mary had died inChristmas week. There could be no doubt that, if the secrets of Provi-dence were disclosed to us, we should find that the turns of the daughterscomplaint in December 1694 bore an exact analogy to the turns ofthe fathers fortune in December 1688. It was at midnight that thefather ran away from Rochester: it was at midnight that the daughter ex-pired. Such was the profundity and such the ingenuity of a writer whomthe Jacobite schismatics justly regarded as one of their ablest chiefs.^ ^Evelyns Diary; Narcissus Luttrells Diary; CommonsJournals, Dec. 28. 1694; Shrews-bury to Lexington, of the same date ; Van Citters, of the same date ; LHerniitage, Jan. tV-1695. Among the sermons on Marys death, that of Sherlock, preached in the Temple Church,and those of Howe and Bates, preached to great Presbyterian congregations, deserve notice. ~ Narcissus Luttrells Diary. 3 Remarks on some late Sermons, 1695 ; A Defence of the Archbishops Sermon, o x O tU ? o .S J M ^ •/ rt w M 2 5 t ^ ^ J 3 w X rt H 2474 HISTORY OF ENGLAND chap, xx The Whigs soofi had an (ippoiliinit}- of retaliating. They triumph-antly rehited that a scrivener in the Borough, a stanch friend of hereditaryright, while exulting in the judgment which had overtaken the Queen,had himself fallen down dead in a fit. The funeral was long remembered as the saddest and most augustthat Westminster had ever seen. While the Queens remains lay inFuneral of state at Whitehall, the neighbouring streets were filled every^^?^ day, from sunrise to sunset, by crowds which made all traffic impossible. The two Houses with their maces followed the hearse, theLords robed in scarlet and ermine, the Commons in long black preceding Sovereign had ever been attended to the grave by a Parlia-ment : for, till then, the Parliament had always expired with theSovereign. A paper had indeed been circulated, in which
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