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prosperity and independence of his native land, should feel chap.deeply mortified. He was, indeed, so indignant, that hetalked of falling back to Torbay, reembarking his troops, re-turning to Holland, and leaving those who had betrayed himto the fate which they deserved. At length, on Monday, thetwelfth of November, a gentleman named Burrington, whoresided in the neighbourhood of Crediton, joined the Prince’sstandard, and his example was followed by several of hisneighbours.

Men of higher consequence had already set out from t-oveUce.different parts of the country for Exeter. The first of thesewas John Lord Lovelace, distinguished by his taste, by hismagnificence, and by the audacious and intemperate vehe-mence of his Whiggism. He had been five or six times ar-rested for political offences. The last crime laid to his chargewas, that he had contemptuously denied the validity of awarrant, signed by a Roman Catholic Justice of the Peace.

Pie had been brought before the Privy Council and strictlyexamined, but to little purpose. He resolutely refused tocriminate himself; and the evidence against him was insuffi-cient. Pie was dismissed; but, before he retired, Jamesexclaimed in great heat, “My Lord, this is not the first trickthat you have played me.” “Sir,” answered Lovelace, withundaunted spirit, “I never played any trick to your Majesty,or to any other person. Whoever has accused me to yourMajesty of playing tricks is a liar.” Lovelace had subse-quently been admitted into the confidence of those whoplanned the Revolution. * His mansion, built by his ances-tors out of the spoils of Spanish galleons from the Indies, roseon the ruins of a house of Our Lady in that beautiful valleythrough which the Thames, not yet defiled by the precinctsof a great capital, nor rising and falling with the flow and ebbof the sea, rolls under woods of beech round the gentle hillsof Berkshire. Beneath the stately saloon, adorned by Italianpencils, was a subterraneous vault, in which the bones ofancient monks had sometimes been found. In this darkchamber some zealous and daring opponents of the govern-* Johnstone, Feb. 21, 1088; (fitters o( the same date.