Note 105 — Chapter XIV · THE REIGN OF JAMES II.
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Lord Dartmouth wrote to say that Fletcher told him there were good grounds to suspect that the prince, underhand, encouraged the expedition, with design to ruin the Duke of Monmouth; and this Dalrymple believes. P. 136. It is needless to observe, that such subtle and hazardous policy was totally out of William's character; nor is there much more reason to believe what is insinuated by James himself (Macpherson's Extracts, p. 144; Life of James, ii. 34), that Sunderland had been in secret correspondence with Monmouth; unless indeed it were, as seems hinted in the latter work, with the king's knowledge.