[32] The Partition Treaties arose out of the troublesome question of the Spanish succession. After the Peace of Ryswick William III. and Louis XIV. attempted to settle this question by a partition of the Spanish possessions.
[33] This was Philip of Anjou, second son of the Dauphin.
[34] Sidney Godolphin, one of the greatest financiers among English statesmen. He was Lord High Treasurer under Queen Anne, and an intimate friend, as well as relative by marriage, of Marlborough. He was created an Earl in 1706, but was removed from his office at the fall of the Whig ministry in 1710.
[35] The Archduke Charles, who styled himself Charles III. of Spain.
_Old Song Composed in the time of George I._
The song illustrates the many changes of religion in the later Stuart period.
1. In good King Charles's golden days When loyalty no harm meant, A zealous High-Churchman was I, And so I got preferment. To teach my flock, I never missed, Kings were by God appointed, And damned are those that dare resist Or touch the Lord's anointed.
_Chorus._ And this is law that I'll maintain Until my dying day, sir, That whatsoever King shall reign I'll still be Vicar of Bray, sir.
2. When royal James possessed the Crown And Popery came in fashion The penal laws I hooted down And signed the Declaration. The Church of Rome I found would fit Full well my constitution, And I had been a Jesuit But for the Revolution.
3. When William was our King declared To ease the nation's grievance, With this new wind about I steered And swore to him allegiance. Old principles I did revoke, Set conscience at a distance; Passive obedience was a joke, A jest was non-resistance.
4. When royal Anne became our Queen, --The Church of England's glory,-- Another face of this was seen And I became a Tory. Occasional Conformists base I blamed their moderation, And thought the Church in danger was By such prevarication.
5. When George in Pudding-time came o'er, And moderate men looked big, sir, My principles I changed once more, And thus became a Whig, sir. And so preferment I secured From our new faith's defender, And almost every day abjured The Pope and the Pretender.
6. The illustrious House of Hanover And Protestant Succession, To them I do allegiance swear-- Whilst they can keep possession. For in my faith and loyalty I never more shall falter, And George my lawful King shall be-- Until the times do alter.