Note 93 — Chapter XIV · THE REIGN OF JAMES II.
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Journals, Nov. 14. Barillon says that the king answered this humble address, "avec des marques de fierté et de colère sur le visage, qui faisoit assez connôitre ses sentimens." Dalrymple, 172. See too his letter in Fox, 139.
A motion was made to ask the Lords' concurrence in this address, which, according to the journals, was lost by 212 to 138. In the Life of James, ii. 55, it is said that it was carried against the motion by only four voices; and this I find confirmed by a manuscript account of the debates (Sloane MSS. 1470), which gives the numbers 212 to 208. The journal probably is mis-printed, as the court and country parties were very equal. It is said in this manuscript, that those who opposed the address, opposed also the motion for requesting the Lords' concurrence in it; but James represents it otherwise, as a device of the court to quash the proceeding.