Note 244 — Chapter LIII · JAMES II. AND SCHOMBERG, 1689-1690

Schomberg to William III., September 20-27 and November 14, State Papers, Domestic. Caillemote to Shrewsbury, September 23, ib. Story’s Impartial History, p. 25. Letter in Le Fleming Papers, October 24. Dumont, who had fled from Normandy to Holland to escape the dragonnades, throws light on the sincerity of official conversions in France: he had received absolution from a conscientious priest at Rouen, who told him to take his time and not to go to church till he had reflected, ‘ce que j’ai executé fort religieusement, n’ayant jamais entendu de messe ni participé à leurs mystères.’ Luttrell, i. 613.