Note 757 — Chapter XII
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Life of James, 592 et post. Compare Dalrymple, p. 265 et post. Barillon was evidently of opinion that the king would finally abandon his brother. Sunderland joined the Duchess of Portsmouth, and was one of the thirty peers who voted for the bill in November 1680. James charges Godolphin also with deserting him. P. 615. But his name does not appear in the protest signed by twenty-five peers; though that of the privy seal, Lord Anglesea, does. The Duchess of Portsmouth sat near the Commons at Stafford's trial, "dispensing her sweetmeats and gracious looks among them."—P. 638.