Note 292 — Chapter X
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State Papers: Shrewsbury to William III., Whitehall, Sept. 8, 1696.
In Macpherson’s Original Papers, i. 481, Captain Floyd, a Jacobite emissary, tells James that Shrewsbury, according to his mother’s account, accepted the seals of office from the Prince of Orange “only in order to serve your Majesty more effectually hereafter.”