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xliv him is that of treachery to James, who distinctly accuses him of having driven him upon those wild and arbitrary measures which caused his ruin, with the intention of ruining him, whilst, through the medium of his wife and his uncle Henry Sidney, he had previously secured the favour of the Prince of Orange.

The Earl of Sunderland, on the other hand, in his letter of justification, published after he fled to Holland, states in vindication of himself that he opposed to the utmost all those measures, and only acquiesced in them when it was hopeless to resist. There can be no credit, however, given to these