[8]These ecclesiastics, led by William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, refused to promulgate from their pulpits the Declaration of Indulgence by which James II would have granted freedom of worship to his subjects. The Seven Bishops argued that he was attempting to exercise a dispensing power that the crown did not possess. They were prosecuted before Parliament, but acquitted (1688). See Clark, _op. cit._, pp. 120-121. [9]Francis Nicholson, a stormy petrel among colonial administrators, was Governor of Virginia at the time of this episode (1704). His intended victim was John Monroe, a clergyman of the Church of England. The information against Monroe is in the _Executive Journals of the Council of Virginia_ (Richmond, 1927), II, 451-452. [10]Laurence Echard, Tory divine and historian, wrote the bitterly anti-Williamite _History of the Revolution of 1688_. See Eugene Lawrence, _Lives of the British Historians_ (New York, 1855), I, 312-315. [11]Paul de Rapin de Thoyras, although a Frenchman, became the foremost authority on English history. His _Histoire d’Angleterre_ appeared in 1723, and long remained the standard work on the subject, influencing a whole generation of British historians including Hume. See Lawrence, _op. cit._, I, 226-229. [12]Marcus Brutus, one of the assassins of Julius Caesar, is most familiar to the English-speaking world as Shakespeare’s “noblest Roman of them all.” Hamilton’s anecdote is based on the laudatory picture of the man drawn in Plutarch’s _Lives_. [13]Lucius Junius Brutus was the Roman patriot who, according to legend, led the revolt that drove out Tarquin the Proud and put an end to the Kings of Rome. The story of his execution of his sons is told repeatedly by the Roman historians, the most familiar source being Livy’s _History of Rome_, bk. I. [14]John Hampden occupies a special niche in British history as the man who refused to pay the Ship Money levied by Charles I for the building of a fleet (1637). His defiance of the crown caught the imagination of later generations as a major step toward the development of parliamentary government in England. See George Macaulay Trevelyan, _England Under the Stuarts_ (19th ed., London, 1947), p. 152. Other Footnotes [1]See Appendix I. [2]Peter Zenger is the ostensible narrator throughout. Suggestions for Further Reading 1. Editions of the Trial. Chandler, Peleg W. _American Criminal Trials_ (New York, 1841). Howell, T. B. _State Trials_ (London, 1816). Mott, Frank Luther. _Oldtime Comments on Journalism_ (Columbia, Mo., 1954). Rutherfurd, Livingston. _John Peter Zenger, His Press, His Trial and a Bibliography of Zenger Imprints_ (New York, 1904). 2. Source Material.