Note 166 — Chapter VIII
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Ibid., 209. Mackintosh cites proofs from letters written by the King, the Queen, the Nuncio, and the French Minister.
In the Entring Book, Morice MSS., it is remarked, under date 1686, November 7—“The King told the Archbishop of York he depended upon his vote to take off the Test, and other penal laws from the Papists, for he remembered his lordship was against the making of the Test. The Archbishop answered, he hoped His Majesty would excuse him in that, and leave him to give his vote according to his judgment. It was true he was against the imposing of the Test, but the case was altered; for then the Papists’ interest was so little, that he thought it not (as others did) then necessary, but now the Papists’ interest did so preponderate, that he thought it necessary to keep it on.”