Note 214 — Chapter LI · THE PARLIAMENT OF 1689

Chief Justice Keating, who tried hard to keep terms with James, and who even excused Tyrconnel, said he was ‘confident and assured that the Government of England will and must at length take place here against all opposition whatsoever,’ letter to Sir John Temple, December 29, 1688, in King’s appendix no. 14. London Gazette. Luttrell’s Diary, June 2: Keating committed suicide in 1691, Cal. of State Papers, Domestic, October 20, 1691, p. 548; James Reilly’s letter from Poitiers, January 3, 1692, in Spicilegium Ossoriense, ii. 309. In troubled times a man who tries to be impartial is likely to find himself without friends. He had been indicted for high treason and his place given to another, see the article on him in Dict. of National Biography and Luttrell, ii. 139. The treason consisted in taking a commission from King James after February 17, 1688-9.