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Correspondence of the Family of Hatton

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page 1 note a Bryan Haynes, one of the principal witnesses against both College and Shaftesbury.

page 1 note b This is a mistake. John Rouse was himself proceeded against, but the grand jury threw out the bill. He was afterwards executed for his part in the Eye House plot.

page 1 note c Edward Turberville and John Macnamara.

page 2 note a Oliver Plunket, titular primate of Ireland, the last victim of the Popish plot.

page 2 note b Edward Fitzharris, the author of the Libel.

page 2 note c Stephen College, the Protestant Joiner.

page 2 note d John Smith, commonly called Narrative Smith, being the author of a Narrative of the Popish plot. He was sometime rector of St. Mary's, Colchester.

page 3 note a Lord Howard of Escrick had been committed to the Tower for contriving Fitzharris's libel.

page 3 note b Edward Whitaker.

page 3 note c Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset.

page 3 note d Thomas Thynne.

page 3 note e Richard Bret.

page 3 note f The Huguenots who had escaped from persecution in France.

page 4 note a Edward Seymour.

page 6 note a Elizabeth, daughter of John Mallet, of Enmore, co. Somerset, and widow of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.

page 7 note a Edward, Earl of Conway. His third wife was Ursula, daughter of Colonel Stowel.

page 7 note b Sir Francis Pemberton, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, was removed to the Common Pleas, in 1683, and immediately afterwards dismissed.

page 8 note a See Christie's Life of Shaftesbyry, ii. 419.

page 9 note a Ruth, widow of Sir John Trevor, sometime Secretary of State. Reresby received an affidavit in this matter on the 2nd January, 1682, as he tells us in his Memoirs.

page 10 note a The cudgelling which Dryden had got in December, 1679, was still fresh in people's memory. Rochester had been roughly handled in the “Essay on Satire,” the joint production of Dryden and Mulgrave, and took his revenge in this way.

page 10 note b Lord Howard of Escrick, John Wilmore, and Edward Whitaker.

page 11 note a The Duke of Richmond.

page 11 note b Theophilus Oglethorpe and Charles Adderley were commissioners for the office of Master of the Horse, during the Duke of Richmond's minority. Oglethorpe was also a lieutenant-colonel in the Duke of York's troop of the Guards. Sir Thomas Armstrong had held the same commission in the King's troop of the same regiment.

page 12 note a Henry Fitz-Roy, natural son of Charles the Second, by the Duchess of Cleveland.

page 12 note b The First Foot Guards.

page 12 note c Baptist May, keeper of the privy purse.

page 12 note d Anne, daughter of George Digby, Earl of Bristol, and wife of Robert Spencer, Earl of Sunderland.

page 12 note e Monmouth's mistress.

page 12 note f George Legge, afterwards Earl of Dartmouth, Master of the Ordnance.

page 13 note a For Edinburgh.

page 13 note b Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyle. It will be remembered that he was at this time condemned to death, but escaped into Holland. Halifax's words, as quoted by Lord Macaulay, will recur to the memory : “ I know nothing of Scotch law, but this I know, that we should not hang a dog here on the grounds on which my Lord Argyle has been sentenced.”

page 13 note c Richard Graham, Viscount Preston, Secretary of State under James II.

page 13 note d See Evelyn's account of the audience, in his Diary, 11 Jan. 1682.

page 14 note a Charles John, Count Conmgsmark, accused of the murder of Thomas Thyune.

page 14 note b Their names, as given in the State Trials, were Christopher Vratz, John Stern, and George Borosky alias Boratzi. See Keresby's account of his capture of Vratz, in his Memoirs, 12 Feb. 1682.

page 15 note a Son of Sir Edward Baynton, of Bromham-Baynton, co. Wilts, by Stuart, sister of Thomas Thynne.

page 16 note a “He went to death like an undaunted hero,” and he “told a friend of mine that he did not value dying of a rush, and hop'd and believ'd God would deale with him like a gentleman “ are Evelyn's remarks. Rereaby tells us that he had led a forlorn hope at Mons.

page 16 note b Lucy, daughter of Sir Robert Carr, and wife of Francis, 2nd Lord Holies.

page 16 note c The Lord Mayor was Sir John Moore. The dispute was about the election of sheriffs, the Lord Mayor favouring the Court candidates.

page 17 note a Evelyn saw them, 19th June, at Lord Berkeley's, and has handed down a minute account of their appearance as they sat before him, “cross-legg'd like Turks, and something in the posture of apes and monkeys.”

page 17 note b Arthur Annesley, Earl of Anglesey, had been called upon to surrender the privy seal on the 8th of the month. His MS. diary, which is preserved in the British Museum, Additional MS. 18730, contains this entry: “9 Aug. In the evening delivred the privy seale, upon the King's warrant of ye 8th under the signet, to Sir Leolin Jenkins. … The Lord be praised, I am now delivred from Court snares,” He was succeeded by Halifax.

page 18 note a Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield.

page 18 note b Colonel Roger Whitley, of Peele, co. Chester.

page 18 note c Henry Booth, son of Lord Delamere, who succeeded to the title and was one of the leaders of the northern rising at the Revolution.

page 18 note d William Leveson Gower.

page 18 note e The buildings, begun by Charles, are now the barracks.

page 19 note a William Douglas, Earl of Selkirk, who, on his marriage with Anne, Duchess of Hamilton, was made Duke of Hamilton. He received the Garter.

page 19 note b The Eleotress Sophia, whose husband, Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover, was also Duke-Bishop of Osnaburg.

page 19 note c Wriothesley Baptist Noel, son of Edward, Viscount Campden, afterwards Earl of Gainsborough.

page 19 note d Francis Aungier, Viscount Longford.

page 20 note a Henry Savile succeeded Sir George Carteret as Vice-Chamberlain.

page 20 note 4 Sir George Booth, who had been created Lord Delamere. Died in 1684.

page 21 note a William, Earl of Craven.

page 21 note b Lord Arlington.

page 21 note c John Granville, Earl of Bath, Groom of the Stole ; died in 1701.

page 21 note d James Douglas, son of the Duke of Hamilton, and a gentleman of the bedchamber.

page 22 note a Duke of Ormond.

page 22 note b He died on the 21st January, 1683.

page 22 note c John, 4th Lord Coventry.

page 22 note d Lord Windsor, lately made Earl of Plymouth.

page 22 note e Shaftesbury married Margaret, one of the daughters of Lord Keeper Coventry ; Halifax was the son of Anne, another daughter; and Lord Plymouth married Halifax's sister.

page 22 note f Josiah Keeling.

page 23 note a Colonel John Rumsey, or Romsey, an old parliamentary officer. He turned King's evidence.

page 23 note b Perhaps a slip of the pen for Colonel James Halsal or Halshall, Scout-Master General. There was also Thomas Halsey. M.P. for Hertfordshire.

page 24 note a Robert West, turned King's evidence.

page 24 note b Henry Dereham.

page 24 note c Robert Ferguson, the busiest of “fanatical knaves.” “Violent, malignant, regardless of truth, insensible to shame, insatiable of notoriety, delighting in intrigue, in tumult, in mischief for its own sake, he toiled during many years in the darkest mines of faction.” Pilloried thus by Macaulay, and branded as Judas in “Absalom and Achitophel,” he is in a fair way of being notorious for ever. He escaped to Holland, to be at the bottom of any mischief that was brewing.

page 25 note a Charles Umfreville, arrested and examined before the Council for unlawful possession of arms.

page 25 note b John Trenchard of Taunton, made Secretary of State in 1693.

page 26 note a Which occasioned Charles's unexpected return from Newmarket, and was said to have disconcerted the plans of the conspirators.

page 26 note b Charles Gerard, Lord Gerard of Brandon, eldest son of Lord Maccleafield. He was put on his trial, in 1685, and was found guilty, but was allowed to redeem himself.

page 27 note a John Hampden, grandson of the patriot. He pleaded guilty, when brought to trial in 1685, and made abject submission ; and escaped with his life on paying a heavy bribe to Jeffreys. He committed suicide in 1695.

page 28 note a Thomas Wharton, afterwards Marquess of Wharton.

page 28 note b Octavian Pulleyn, Lord Grey's tutor.

page 28 note c Charles Montagu, 4th Earl, afterwards Duke, of Manchester.

page 28 note d To Spain.

page 29 note a William Hone, John Rouse, and William Blague. The last was acquitted.

page 30 note a Thomas Shepard.

page 30 note b Henry Booth, son of Lord Delamere.

page 30 note c James Cecil, 4th Earl of Salisbury, married Frances, daughter of Simon Bennet, of Beechampton, co. Bucks.

page 30 note d Catherine, daughter of James, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, married George, son of Sir George Downing, who succeeded to the baronetcy.

page 30 note e Baronet, of Sunninghill, co. Berks.

page 30 note f James, son of Thomas Earl of Ossory ; afterwards Duke of Ormond.

page 31 note a Elizabeth, daughter of Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland.

page 31 note b Frances, daughter of Sir James Bridgman, of Castle-Bromwich, co. Warwick.

page 31 note c Colonel Thomas Walcott.

page 31 note d Brother of Sir Charles Lyttelton and a captain in his regiment.

page 32 note a John Tillotson, at this time Dean, afterwards Archbishop, of Canterbury.

page 33 note a Brother-in-law.

page 33 note b Francis Charlton.

page 34 note c Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk.

page 34 note a Anthony Grey, 11th Earl of Kent.

page 34 note b See above, p. 7, note a.

page 34 note c Afterwards Sir William Trumball, Secretary of State.

page 34 note d William Carstairs.

page 35 note a Hugh Westlake.

page 36 note a Sir Thomas Jones.

page 36 note b Roger North ?

page 36 note c Sir Edward Herbert, son of the Lord Keeper, was made Chief Justice of Chester.

page 36 note d Neuhäusel, in Hungary.

page 37 note a Robert Brudenell, 2nd Earl of Cardigan.

page 37 note b i.e., Lord Grey of Ruthyn.

page 37 note c “A Discourse concerning the Beauty of Holiness.” London, 1679. 8vo.

page 38 note a “The Ladies Calling” and other works by the author of “The Whole Duty of Man” were published in 1684, with an introduction by Fell, in which he mentions the imitations referred to above.

page 39 note a Daughter of Robert, third Earl of Manchester. She married Sir James Montagu, Lord Chief Baron.

page 39 note b A sister of Lord Hatton.

page 39 note c Elizabeth Holles, daughter of John, 2nd Earl of Clare, and wife of Wentworth Fitz-Gerald, 17th Earl of Kildare.

page 39 note d Mary, daughter of Charles Berkeley, Earl of Falmouth, and wife of Sir Gilbert Cosins Gerard, of Fiskerton, co. Line., Bart. She was divorced in 1684.

page 42 note a Donough Macarthy, Earl of Clancarty, was at this time only fifteen ; the bridle, Elizabeth Spencer, only eleven. They were separated after the ceremony, and did not meet again till 1698. Their romantic story is well known through Macaulay's History. See also Burnet's History of Ms own Time, i. 601.

page 43 note a He died in 1685. He was a cousin of his namesake the Duke of Marlborough.

page 44 note a Arthur Herbert, who took such a distinguished part in the Revolution ; afterwards Earl of Torrington.

page 45 note a Thomas Chudleigh, English minister at the Hague.

page 47 note a Burnet also mentions this, that Charles alleged that he refused mercy to Armstrong for this reason. The story was, that he had been sent by Cromwell to assassinate Charles. He left papers with the sheriffs to refute the charge.

page 47 note b Cardinal César d'Estrées.

page 47 note c Francis Brudenell, son of the Earl of Cardigan.

page 47 note d He means Master of the Ordnance.

page 48 note a The physician who was present when Charles the Second was seized with the fit which preceded his death. King bled him and restored him to consciousness, a service for which a thousand pounds was awarded to him. It appears, however, from the Bishop of Oxford's letter of the 7th February, 1686, that the reward was never paid, but that King received knighthood instead, which, as the Bishop observes, was equivalent to fining him a hundred pounds. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society.

page 48 note b Lady Hatton had died in May.

page 49 note a Ford, Lord Grey of Werke.

page 50 note a He was made Baron of the Exchequer.

page 50 note b Sir Hugh “Wyndham, of the Common Pleas, died on the 27th July, 1684.

page 50 note c Of a plot supposed to be connected with the Eye House plot in England.

page 50 note d Margaret, daughter of Sir Robert Sawyer, sometime Attorney General, lately married to Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke.

page 50 note e John Browne.

page 50 note f Dr. George Morley.

page 50 note g Henry Coventry died at the end of 1686.

page 50 note h Henry Guy, afterwards Secretary to the Treasury.

page 50 note i This seems to be a pamphlet with the title of “Hue and Cry after the Earl of Essex's Murder.”

page 51 note a The physician.

page 51 note b Groom of the Bedchamber.

page 52 note a William, second Lord Alington.

page 54 note a Abel Tasien d'Allonne.

page 54 note b Henry van Nassau, Heer van Ouwerkerk, made Master of the Horse by William III.

page 54 note c See Burnet's account of this, i. 29.

page 54 note a Guy Aldonce de Durfort, Due de Lorges-Quintin, Marshal of France, envoy to congratulate James on his accession.

page 54 note b Queen Sophia Amalia, consort of Frederic III.

page 54 note c His first wife, Anne Hadley. The reader will be reminded of Macaulay's account of the conversation between James and Herbert on conscience.

page 54 note d James, son of the Duke of Monmouth who was also Earl of Doncaster.

page 54 note e At Oxford. Fell was very energetic in raising volunteers in the University.

page 55 note a He was proclaimed at Taunton on the 20th June.

page 60 note a The exact number of rebels whom Jeffreys hanged, as stated by Lord Macaulay, was three hundred and twenty. The condemnatory remarks of Lyttelton are of peculiar significance in the mouth of a courtier. Macaulay has not overcoloured his vivid picture of the Bloody Assizes.

page 61 note a Daniel Finch, Earl of Nottingham, afterwards Secretary of State. His first wife was Lady Essex Rich, daughter of Robert, Earl of Warwick. His marriage with Anne Hatton, referred to in this letter, took place on the 29th December, 1685. He was born in 1647, and was therefore twenty-one years older than his bride.

page 61 note b As Lord-Lieuteuant of Ireland.

page 61 note c The match did not come off. Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury, afterwards third Earl of Clarendon, married Catherine, daughter of Henry, Lord O'Brien, eldest son of the Earl of Thomond.

page 61 note d “Several of the officers, military and civill, that appeared in the house of commons in this present parliament against the king's interest are (tis said) dismis'd their several places and commands; as, Sir Stephen Fox, lord Manchester, capt. Cook, capt. Browne and others.” Luttrell, under date of 13 Dec. 1685.

page 62 note a He refers to the Duke of Grafton's duel, mentioned by Luttrell under date of 2nd February :- “The same day also the Duke of Grafton fought a duel with one Mr. Talbott, brother of the Earl of Shrewsbury, and killed him ; and Mr. Wharton, one of the lord Wharton's sons, killed an Irish man the same day.”

page 62 note b He died on the 10th July.

page 63 note a Charles Knollys, self-styled Earl of Banbury.

page 63 note b Lieutenant of Charles Hatton's company.

page 63 note c Major Jenkins Morgan, of the Queen Dowager's Regiment of Horse.

page 63 note d Hugh, son of Henry Hare, second Lord Coleraine, married Lydia, daughter of Matthew Carlton, of Edmonton.

page 63 note e ? Francis Browne, fourth Viscount Montague.

page 64 note a Anne Sophia, daughter of the Princess Anne, born 12 May, 1686, died 2 Feb. 1687.

page 64 note b Edward Stillingfleet; Bishop of Worcester in 1689.

page 64 note c Elizabeth, daughter of Dudley, Lord North, and wife of Sir Robert Wyseman, Dean of the Arches,.

page 64 note d Catherine, daughter of William, Lord Grey of Werke, and wife of Charles, 5th Lord North and Grey.

page 64 note e Mary, eldest daughter of the Princess Anne. She died a few days after this, on the 8th February.

page 66 note a John Sharp, Dean of Norwich, afterwards Archbishop of York. Lately suspended for his sermon against Popery at St. Giles's. Luttrell records that “Dr. Sharp, Dean of Norwich, preached at the chapel at Whitehall before the princesse of Denmark.”

page 66 note b Probably Nathaniel, Lord Crew, Bishop of Durham.

page 66 note c John Leyburn, Bishop of Adrumetum and Vicar Apostolic in England.

page 66 note d She died on the 14th November of this year.

page 66 note a Henry Cornwall, colonel of one of the regiments of Foot.

page 66 note b Sir William Forester, of Dothill, co. Salop, married Mary Cecil, daughter of James, third Earl of Salisbury.

page 66 note c “Some Letters containing an Account of what seemed most remarkable in Switzerland, Italy,” &c. Amsterdam, 1686, 8vo.

page 66 note d Christopher Monk, the second Duke.

page 66 note e The admiral.

page 68 note a Of Clare College, Cambridge ; B.A. 1664, M.A. 1668, S.T.P. 1685. Rector of St. Paul's, Covent Garden; and afterwards Dean of Peterborough, in 1691. Died 14th Oct., 1707.

page 68 note b Ferdinando, Conte d'Adda.

page 68 note c Charles Seymour, sixth Duke.

page 68 note d Thomas Cartwright, lately Dean of Ripon. Died 1689.

page 68 note e One Popham. The firmness of the Duke of Ormond, who was one of the trustees, frustrated the design. See Macaulay's account of the affair.

page 69 note a Anthony Farmer, the King's nominee for the presidency of Magdalen College.

page 69 note b Sir John Reresby. See his Memoirs for a long account of his negotiations for the match between the Earl of Feversham and Lady Margaret Cavendish, daughter of Henry, Duke of Newcastle ; which ended in nothing but a quarrel between the Duke and the Duchess.

page 70 note a George Douglas, Earl of Dumbarton, Commander of the Forces in Scotland.

page 70 note b Edward Noel, fourth Viscount Camden, created Earl of Gainsborough. Died in 1689.

page 70 note c Peter Mew, Bishop of Winchester.

page 70 note d William Blathwayt, Secretary at War.

page 71 note a Henry Aldrich, Dean of Christ Church in 1689.

page 71 note b Samuel Parker. Died in 1688.

page 72 note a “A Letter to a Dissenter upon occasion of his Majesties late gracious Declaration of Indulgence.” London, 1687, 4to.

page 73 note a Sir Thomas Jenner, Baron of the Exchequer.

page 73 note b John Hough, afterwards Bishop, successively, of Oxford, 1690, of Lichfield and Coventry, 1699, and of Worcester, 1717. Died in 1743.

page 74 note a Robert Charnock. Executed, in 1696, for sharing in the Assassination plot.

page 75 note a Henry Fairfax, afterwards Dean of Norwich.

page 77 note a William Joyner, or Lyde ; a Demy in 1636, and afterwards Fellow. He renounced his fellowship and went over to Rome in 1644. For some years he was in the service of Edward, Earl of Glamorgan ; and led a retired life. He was now brought out of his seclusion to be restored to his fellowship, which, however, he held but one year, and then, as Wood says, he “retired to his former recess, where his apparel, which was formerly gay, was then very rustical.”

page 79 note a Thomas Sadler, miniature and portrait painter ; a pupil of Sir Peter Lely. He was brought up to the law.

page 79 note 4 James Fitz-James, natural son of James II. by Anne Churchill.

page 80 note a Evelyn visited Lyttelton at Shene, and tells us how he came by his house there : “24, Mar. 1688. I went with Sir Charles Littleton to Sheene, an house and estate given to him by Lord Brouncker ; one who was ever noted for a hard, covetous, vicious man, but for his worldly craft and skill in gaming few exceeded him. Coming to die, he bequeath'd all his land, house, furniture, &c. to Sir Charles, to whom he had no manner of relation, but an ancient friendship contracted at the famous siege of Colchester, 40 yeares before. It is a pretty place, with fine gardens, and well planted, and given to one worthy of them, Sir Charles being an honest gentleman and soldier … He is married to one Mrs Temple, who was formerly maide of honour to the late Queene, a beautiful lady, and he has many fine children, so that none envy his good fortune.”

page 80 note b Sir Roger Strickland.

page 81 note a John Lovelace, third Baron.

page 82 note a Phineas Fowke.

page 82 note b “Museum Italicum ; seu collectio veterum scriptorum ex Bibliothecis Italicis eruta, a Joh. Mabillon et M. Germain.” Two vols. Paris, 1687-89, 4to.

page 82 note c De Mensuris et Ponderibus,” by Dr. Edward Bernard, Savilian Professor of Astronomy. The first edition was published in 1685 ; the second in 1688.

page 82 note d “Version of the Psalms of David, together with all the Church Hymns, into Metre.” By Simon Ford, D.D. London, 1688, 8vO.

page 82 note e Jacob Bobart, son of a father of the same name, whom he succeeded as keeper of the Botanical Gardens at Oxford.

page 83 note a The third volume of Robert Morison's “Plantarum Historia Universalis Oxoniensis” did not appear until 1699. The second volume was published in 1680.

page 83 note b John Mill, D.D., of Queen's College, Principal of St. Edmund's Hall.

page 83 note c Henry Dodwell, of Dublin, Camden Professor of History at Oxford.

page 83 note d Henry Aldrich and John Hammond, Canons of Christ Church.

page 83 note e Dr. William Lloyd.

page 83 note f The work was left imperfect. His son made use of it for his “Series Chronologica Olympiadum,” &c, Oxon. 1700 ; and his Chaplain, Benjamin Marshall, composed from it his Chronological Tables, Oxon. 1712-13.

page 84 note a “Histoire du Divorce de Henry VIII, et de Catherine d'Arragon ; avec la Defense de Sandérus, la Refutation des deux premiers Livres de I'Histoire de la Réformation de Burnet, et les Preuves,” by Joachim Le Grand. Three vols. Paris, 1688, 12mo.

page 84 note b He here confounds Joachim with Anthony Le Grand.

page 84 note c “Lectiones variantes et Annotationes in quinque priores libros Antiquitatum Judaicarum.” Oxford, 1686. Wood adds : “His notes upon those Books were too large and therefore disliked by Dr. John Fell, and the author, being weary of the work, did goe no farther than his Notes on the first five Books, which caused an old Theologist and Pretender to poetry [Clement Barksdale] to sing in his doggerel rhimes- 'Savilian Bernard's a right learned man ; Josephus he will finish when he can.' “

page 85 note a Aldrich's edition of the first and part of the second book of the Bellum Judaicum was published with Bernard's annotations on the Antiquities in 1687.

page 85 note b This appears to be the “Chronicon omnis Ævi,” left in MS., as noticed by Wood.

page 85 note a “Orbis eruditi Literatura, a charactere Samaritico deducta :” a copperplate engraving.

page 85 note b “Sir Hugh Cholmeley, of Whitby, Bart.

page 88 note a Theophilus Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon.

page 88 note b Edward Cobbe, Vicar of Wollaston.

page 89 note a Thomas Lamplugh, Bishop of Exeter, who, it will be remembered, hurried up to Court with the news of the Prince of Orange's advance on his city, was then translated to York.

page 89 note b John Arderne, who died in 1691.

page 89 note c Timothy Hall, who read the Declaration in St. Matthew's, Friday Street. He was consecrated Bishop of Oxford on the 7th October.

page 89 note d James Butler, grandson of the old Duke.

page 90 note a i.e., Secretary Blathwayt.

page 91 note a Edmund Plowden.

page 92 note a Clarendon notices this in Ms Diary. The King received the Bishops graciously, but spoke only in general terms. “As the Bishops came from the King, several people in the rooms, as they passed, asked them how things went ? The Bishop of Winton (poor man !) answered 'Omnia bene.' “

page 93 note a Sir Edward Hales.

page 95 note a “Goodwin Wharton, esq., the son to the lord Wharton, is accused for viewing the fortifications at Dartmouth and sent to the Tower."-Luttrell's Diary, 7 Oct. 1688.

page 97 note a Lord Hatton'a secretary.

page 98 note a Obadiah Walker. He was deprived in 1689.

page 98 note b John Massey, the Dean.

page 99 note a The shortened word “mob” did not make its way very readily. Burnet uses it in his History, i. 378, and provokes a sneer from Swift: “A word of dignity for an historian!”

page 100 note a Robert Werden.

page 100 note b Poor Harry went off to the Prince of Orange. Nash in his History of Worcestershire, i. 501, prints the following interesting letter from Lyttelton to his wife :-

“I had yours last night. I told the king I could not see his majestie without some confusion that so much of my Wood had forfeited his duty in my son's defection, which he was pleased very graciously to return : ' he could not wonder that my son had done so since his own children were so disobedient.' But I should have told you that I said withall as he went without my leave, so he should never have my blessing till he had returned to his duty: and the king was pleased to say, he was satisfied : I was not, he knew, in fault, and told Sir John Talbot to that purpose afterwards. I was with the king last night at his eonchee, and he told us my lord Churchill waited four hours after he came to the prince of Orange's quarters before he was admitted to see him, and then had no quarters assigned him, so was faine to go five or six miles off to get any. Indeed they say there is very little regard to those that are gone, and the prince pays nobody a penny but those he brought with him, and those have been raised by his commission, so that I believe our spark will grow quickly weary of his adventure. Till the trumpet comes back we can tell nothing what to think of the treaty the lords were gone upon : the trumpet went to demand their passe. Here is come an addresse last night from the fleet, brought by lord Berkley and captain Leighton, signed by lord Dartmouth and every captain, to thank the king for calling a parliament, as the only expedient to preserve his majesty, the peace of the kingdom, and the protestant religion, which they resolve to defend I think with their blood. Sir Roger Strickland's hand is to it. The poor king is mightily broken. A great heart can't so easily bend. I don't know yet if I shall be commanded to stay here or goe back. I hope tomorrow though to come and dine with you. I have not time to say more, and the room is full of officers ; so, dear, good morrow. “CHARLES LYTTELTON.”

page 101 note a Nottingham's letters at this crisis will be read with interest; and particularly those portions of them which refer to his own action. He is very cautious in the means he takes to prevent identification in case his letters should fall into wrong hands. Besides to some extent disguising his hand and omitting his signature, he uses a common seal and false addresses. The present letter is directed to “Mr, Francis Greene, at Uppingham.”

page 102 note a Colonel Thomas Langston.

page 102 note b Major Robert Clifford.

page 102 note c Major Walter Lyttelton.

page 103 note a John, Lord Lovelace; made prisoner at Cirencester in an attempt to force his way to join the Prince of Orange.

page 103 note b William Cavendish, Earl of Devonshire, was engaged in aiding the northern insurrection at Derby.

page 103 note c James Bertie, Earl of Abingdon, the first peer who joined the Prince of Orange's camp.

page 104 note a Thomas Thynne, Viscount Weymouth.

page 104 note b William Lloyd and Thomas White.

page 105 note a Macaulay has taken his account of this petition from Clarendon's Diary, from which it appears that nineteen signatures were procured. The present letter is valuable as giving Halifax's view of the matter, for Nottingham evidently only repeats Halifax's reasoning.

page 105 note b Addressed to “Mis Alice Hatton, at Kerby.”

page 106 note a Of Bryanstone, M.P. for Taunton.

page 106 note b Francis Luttrell and Nathaniel Palmer, the Members for Minehead.

page 106 note c He sat for Totnes.

page 106 note d Grandson of Henry, 9th Earl of Norfolk.

page 108 note a Colonel Thomas Strangways, M.P. for Dorsetshire.

page 109 note a John Granville, first Earl of Bath.

page 110 note a The skirmish at Wincanton. It will be remembered that the result was the other way.

page 110 note a i. e. Fowell.

page 111 note a The admiral; distinguished himself at La Hogue.

page 112 note a Colonel Charles Trelawney, a brother of the Bishop, who, like Kirke, commanded one of the Tangier regiments.

page 113 note a James Douglas, Earl of Dramlanrig, eldest son of William, Duke of Queensberry.

page 113 note b Probably Mrs. Barbara Berkeley, who had been governess to the Princess's children.

page 115 note a Although before the age of “boets and bainters,” Lady Nottingham occasionally confounds the b and p.

page 115 note b Lord Grey of Ruthyn.

page 116 note a Edward Montague, of Horton, the father of George, second Earl of Halifax.

page 117 note a Edward Griffin, created Baron Griffin of Braybroke CaBtle, co. Northampton.

page 118 note a A Commissioner of the Customs and a Privy Councillor.

page 119 note a Sir Charles Shuckborough, Bart.

page 119 note b Charles Cockayne, third Viscount Cullen.

page 120 note a Sir Scrope Howe, Viscount Howe in 1701.

page 120 note b John Coke, M.P. for Derby.

page 121 note a Poor prince!

page 121 note b Sir Edward Herbert.

page 122 note a William O'Brien, second Earl of Inchiqnin.

page 122 note b George Gordon, fourth Marquess of Huntly and first Duke of Gordon.

page 124 note a Ralph Sheldon, one of the Equerries.

page 124 note b Sir Thomas Jenner, junior Baron of the Exchequer.

page 125 note a Anne, daughter of Charles Howard, first Earl of Carlisle, and wife of Richard Graham, Viscount Preston.

page 125 note b Penelope, daughter of Barnabas, Earl of Thomond, and wife of Henry Mordaunt, second Earl of Peterborough.

page 125 note c Jeffreys.

page 127 note a William Henry de Nassau, Lord of Zuleistein, created Earl of Eochford in 1695.

page 129 note a This retort of the witty Catherine Sidley has more point in it when we remember that Mary had shocked observers, and Evelyn among the number, by her levity of conduct on taking possession of her father's palace. Her lightheartedness, whether real or feigned, was no doubt at this moment the talk of the town.

page 130 note a Sir George Hewett was made Viscount Hewett on the 9th April, and died on the 2nd December, 1689.

page 130 note b Admiral Arthur Herbert, Earl of Torrington.

page 130 note c Anthony Caiy, fourth Viscount Falkland, was succeeded as Treasurer of the Navy by Admiral Edward Russell, afterwards Earl of Orford.

page 130 note d Chiesly of Dairy.

page 131 note a The appointments were: in the King's Bench, Sir John Holt, Chief Justice, Sir William Dolben, Sir Giles Eyre, and Sir William Gregory ; in the Common Pleas, Sir Henry Pollexfen, Chief Justice, Sir John Powell, Sir Thomas Eokeby, and Sir Peyton Ventris ; in the Exchequer, Sir Robert Atkins, Chief Baron, Sir Edward Neville, Sir Nicholas Lechmere, and Sir John Turton.

page 131 note b Sir William Montagu, Chief Baron, had been removed in April, 1686.

page 132 note a John, son of Sir William Temple and Secretary-at-War, the story of whose unhappy death is so well known through Macaulay's History.

page 133 note a Thomas Nugent, Chief Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland ; removed in 1690.

page 133 note b Richard Hamilton, the brother of the author of Grammont's Memoirs.

page 134 note a John Hay, 2nd Earl of Tweedale ; created Marquess in 1694.

page 134 note b The Laird of Blair.

page 135 note a Captain Vaughan and Captain Mold, Jacobite agents, who were arrested for distributing James's declaration.

page 135 note b See Macaulay's interesting account of the debates in his 14th chapter.

page 135 note c This is a mistake. Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Monmouth, led the attack on Halifax.

page 136 note a Richard Coote, Lord Coote of Coloony, who was created Earl of Bellamont this year ; M.P. for Droitwich, and Treasurer to the Queen.

page 136 note b Dundee was already slain at Killiecrankie, on the 27th July.

page 137 note a The siege was raised on the 1st August.

page 138 note a John Birch, who began life as a carter, became a colonel under Cromwell, and sat many years in Parliament.

page 138 note b Charles, Lord Grey and North.

page 138 note c Peter Mew.

page 139 note a Daughter of James Howard, Earl of Suffolk, and wife of Edward, Lord Griffin.

page 140 note a William, 11th Lord Forbes.

page 140 note b Thomas Chblmondeley, of Vale Boyal, co. Chester.

page 140 note c Lieutenant of the Tower.

page 142 note a John, 3rd Lord Lovelace.

page 143 note a William Jane, Dean of Hereford.

page 143 note b William Beveridge, afterwards Bishop of St. Asaph.

page 144 note a Henry Aldrich, Dean of Christ Church.

page 144 note b “Brief Notes on the Creed of St. Athanasius.” It was answered by Sherlock, Dean of St. Paul's.

page 144 note c Anthony Horneck, Preacher at the Savoy, famous for his pathetic sermons.

page 144 note d Johann Tauler, the mystic.

page 145 note a In the entrenched camp at Dundalk.

page 145 note b Schoniberg.

page 145 note c Henry Shales, who had also been Commissary General to the camp at Hounslow, and was continned in his office as the only person of any experience in that department.

page 147 note a Charles Paulett, Marquess of Winchester, created Duke of Bolton in 1689.

page 149 note a Caermarthen.

page 149 note b John Granville, second son of John Earl of Bath, created Lord Granville of Potheridge in 1702.

page 150 note a Matthew Crone, the Jacobite emissary. He saved his life by giving information of the designed invasion.

page 151 note a The infidels were right.

page 151 note b Luttrell, under date of 22d June, has the entry: “Captain Hatton, brother to the lord Hatton, is committed to the Tower for handing to the presse a treasonable paper against the government.”

page 152 note a Charles Livingston, second Earl of Newburgh.

page 152 note b On the charge of inviting a French invasion.

page 152 note c Wife of Charles Hatton, and daughter of Sir William Scroggs. Her letters are illiterate, even for that age, for one in her position.

page 154 note a The battle of Beachy Head was fought on the 30th June.

page 155 note a William Cavendish, Earl, afterwards Duke, of Devonshire.

page 155 note b Thomas Herbert, eighth Earl of Pembroke, First Lord of the Admiralty.

page 156 note c It will be remembered that the battle of the Boyne was fought on the 1st July.

page 158 note a William remained in Ireland till September.

page 159 note a The siege of Limerick was already raised on the 29th August.

page 162 note a Her son Daniel.

page 162 note b They were William and, probably, George Cecil, younger sons of James, third Earl of Salisbury.

page 163 note a Sir Edward Villiers, created Baron Villiers of Hoo and Viscount Villiers of Dartford, 20 March, 1691.

page 164 note a Tillotson, who superseded Sancroft on the 23rd April.

page 164 note b On the 7th June.

page 165 note a Isabella, daughter of Sir William Fairfax of Steeton, and sister of Lyttelton's first wife. She was married to Nathaniel Bladen, of Hemsworth, barrister.

page 165 note b Sir George Treby.

page 165 note c Emerio Tekeli, the Hungarian chief.

page 166 note a The famous Robert Boyle.

page 166 note b Dr. William Stokeham.

page 166 note c Catherine, daughter of Richard, Earl of Cork, and wife of Arthur, Viscount Ranelagh.

page 167 note a Dr. Andrew Clenche, for whose murder Henry Harrison was tried and hanged.

page 169 note a Henry, seventh Dnke of Norfolk, married Mary, daughter of Henry Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough. He did not obtain a divorce till the year 1700. She afterwards married Sir John Germain, Bart.

page 171 note a Parry Walton, keeper of the pictures to James II.

page 173 note a Robert Crawford, M.P. for Queenborongh.

page 175 note a Bernardin Gigault, Marquis de Bellefonds.

page 175 note b Thomas Savage, Viscount Colchester, SOB of Thomas, Earl Rivers.

page 176 note a Robert Leke, third Earl of Scarsdale.

page 176 note b Edward Henry Lee, Earl of Lichfield.

page 176 note c A slip of the pen for Griffin.

page 177 note a Thomas Sprat.

page 177 note b Thomas Kenn, the deprired Bishop.

page 178 note a Thomas Tufton, sixth Earl of Thanet; and John Holies, Earl of Clare, afterwards Duke of Newcastle.

page 179 note a In the battle of La Hogne, on the 19th and 23rd of May.

page 179 note b The town surrendered after an eight days' siege; but the citadel held out for three weeks longer.

page 179 note c The Amsterdam edition.

page 179 note d Madame Dacier translated the Plutus and the Clouds in 1684, but nothing else of Aristophanes.

page 179 note e “Bibliothèque Universelle et Historique,” in 25 vols. Amsterdam, 1686–1693.

page 179 note f The Journal des Sçavans.

page 180 note a John Vaughan, thrd Earl of Carberry.

page 180 note b John Murray, first Earl of Dumrmore.

page 180 note c Sir William Fermor, created Lord Lempster in April of this year.

page 181 note a Count Solmes commanded the British troops.

page 181 note b Five regiments were cut to pieces.

page 182 note a The loss on each side at Steinkirk was about 7,000 men.

page 183 note a The expedition was fitted out for a descent on the French coast and actually put to sea; but the project was given up at a final council of war.

page 185 note a Russell was dismissed early in the following year.

page 185 note b Frances, daughter of Francis, Lord Brudenell, son of Robert, Earl of Cardigan.

page 186 note a Admiral Sir John Ashby, who was present at La Hogue.

page 187 note a Charles, fifth, and fortunately last, Lord Mohun.

page 187 note b John, son of John Kennedy, seventh Earl of Cassilis. He died before his father.

page 187 note c Captain Richard Hill, who absconded.

page 187 note d William Mountford.

page 187 note e The tract entitled “King William and Queen Mary Conquerors” was written by Charles Blount. Burnet's Pastoral Letter contained a paragraph, the language of which bore Eome resemblance to that of the pamphlet. See Macanlay's account of the affair.

page 187 note f “A Discourse of God's Ways of disposing of Kingdoms.” London, 1691. Sm. 4to.

page 188 note a Thomas Coningsby, late Lord Justice of Ireland, afterwards Earl of Coningsby.

page 188 note b Richard Jones, third Viscount Ranelagh.

page 188 note c Admirals Henry Killegrew and Sir Ealph Delayal.

page 188 note d Charles, third Lord Cornwallis.

page 189 note a He was acquitted by sixty-nine votes to fourteen.

page 189 note b James Whitney, who had tried to obtain a reprieve by undertaking to raise a troop of highwaymen-cavalry to serve in Flanders.

page 189 note c Robert Young, who tried to follow Oates's steps as false accuser, and whose career has been sketched by Macaulay. He was tried for perjury, subornation of perjury, and forgery. He came to his end at Tyburn in 1700.

page 190 note a “A Specimen of some Errors and Defects in the History of the Reformation of the Church of England wrote by Gilbert Bnrnet D.D., now Lord Bishop of Sarum.” By Anthony Harmer [i.e. Henry Wharton]. London, 1693. Small 8vo.

page 191 note a This was : “An Answer to a Scurrilous Pamphlet lately printed, intituled a Letter from Monsieur de Cros to the Lord––.” London, 1693. 8vo. The scurrilous pamphlet was : “Lettre de Monsieur Du Cros à Mylord ––, afin de seryir de réponse aux impostures de Monsieur le Chevalier Temple, cy-devant Ambassadeur de l'Angleterre à la Haye et à, Nimegue,” printed at Cologne this year, an English version of which appeared at the same time in London. S. Du Cros was envoy from the Duke of Holstein-Glottorp.

page 191 note b Caermarthen.

page 191 note c See above, p. 190, notea.

page 192 note a “A Letter writ by the Lord Bishop of Salisbury to the Lord Bishop of Cov. and Litchfield concerning a Book lately published, called A Specimen,” etc. London, 1693. Sin. 4to.

page 192 note b Charles Granville, eldest son of the Earl of Bath.

page 192 note c White, Marquis d'Albeville.

page 194 note a The battle of Landen or Neerwinden was fought on the 19th July.

page 194 note b He was taken prisoner, and exchanged for the Duke of Berwick.

page 196 note a In Stratton-street, in Piccadilly.

page 197 note a Macaulay's account is misleading, as he makes Nottingham's resignation to follow, instead of precede, the early debates in parliament.

page 197 note b Shrewsbury at length accepted the seals in April, 1694.

page 198 note a Charles Berkeley, Viscount Dursley, eldest son of George, Earl of Berkeley.

page 198 note b Richard Sutton, second Lord Lexinton.

page 198 note c Somers.

page 199 note a He died on the 23rd November.

page 200 note a Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Monmonth.

page 200 note b Princess Anne's birthday.

page 200 note c William, Duke of Gloucester.

page 200 note d Luttrell has the following : “This day being the princesse of Denmark's birthday, the Duke of Glocester will head his company in Hide park; the officers have hatts and feathers and the soldiers all red caps, and four little drakes for cannon.”

page 200 note a The date of William and Mary's accession.

page 203 note a Luttrell has this account under the 10th April : ” A duel was yesterday fought between one Mr. Lawes and Mr. Wilson in Bloomsbury Square ; the latter was killed upon the spott, and the other is sent to Newgate ; 'tis that Mr. Wilson who for some years past hath made a great figure, living at rate of 4000l. per ann., without any visible estate ; and the several gentlemen who kept him company and endeavoured to find out his way of living could never effect it.”

page 203 note b See above, p. 185, note b.

page 203 note c Dean Aldrich.

page 203 note d Dr. Arthur Charlet, sometime Fellow of Trinity College.

page 203 note e The Hatton MSS. are described in the "Catalogi Librorum Manuscriptoru m Anglia; et Hiberniso in unum collecti,” which was published at Oxford in 1697.

page 204 note a The third volume of Morison's ” Plantarum Historia Uniyersalis Oxoniensis” appeared in 1699.

page 204 note b “A Discourse of Government,” &c., published this year with a preface by Dr. Thomas Smith.

page 205 note a Smith's "Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecse Cottonianse,” to which was prefixed a Life of Sir Robert Cotton, was published at Oxford in 1696.

page 206 note a Ralph Montagu, now Earl of Montagu.

page 207 note a Caryll, third Viscount Molyneux.

page 207 note b Sir Kowland, not Sir Thomas, Stanley. Sir Thomas was one of the commissioners at the trial. See ” The Trials at Manchester in 1694,” edited by Dr. Goss, for the Chetham Society, in 1864.

page 207 note c Peter Legh, of Lyme, co. Chester.

page 208 note a The History of the Trouble s and Tryal of the Most Reverend Eather in God, and Blessed Martyr, William Laud, Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, wrote by himself during his imprisonment in the Tower.” With a preface by Henry Wharton. The entire volume was published in 1695, but portions of it appeared previously.

page 208 note b Dr. John Hall.

page 208 note c This promotion did not take place. James Gardiner succeeded Tenison at Lincoln.

page 209 note a Mary died on the 28th December.

page 210 note a Her eldest daughter.

page 210 note b The second volume of Laud's ” Troubles and Tryall” did not follow until 1700.

page 210 note c The words which are referred to are : ” a mild and gracious Prince, who knew not how to he, or to be made, great.”

page 211 note a One of her children who died young.

page 213 note a “Notes on the Phoenix edition of the Pastoral Letter of Bishop Gilbert Burnet,” by Samuel Johnson, who got his nickname from his book ” Julian the Apostate.”

page 214 note a a Margaret, daughter of James, Earl of Salisbury, and widow of John, Lord Stawel, took for her second husband Kicbard, Earl of Ranelagh.

page 214 note b It is worth noticing, as an instance of what in the present day would be thought restraint between parent and child, that Lady Nottingham first began the subscription to this letter with the word ” affectionate,” which, however, she erased in favour of the formal ” obedient, duttyfull.”

page 215 note a William Savile, Lord Eland. He was summoned to his father's deathbed from his own wedding. He married Lady Mary Finch, Nottingham's daughter; and died i n 1700.

page 215 note b Dr. Peter Birch, Prebendary of Westminster, and, this year, Vicar of St. Bride's.

page 217 note a John Scott, Rector of St. Giles-in-the-Fields and Canon of Windsor.

page 217 note b Henry Jiove, Vicar of St. Bride's.

page 217 note c John Kottlewell, Vicar of Coleshill, co. Warwick.

page 217 note d Henry Wharton, Rector of Chartham, co. Kent.

page 217 note e No new edition of the ” De Antiqnitate Britannicse Ecclesiae” appeared before 1729.

page 217 note f By William Turner, Vicar of Walberton.

page 218 note a R M.P. for Leicestershire.

page 218 note b Sir Joh n Trevor.

page 218 note c Sir Edward Ward.

page 218 note d Charles Bates, an agent. See Macaulay's account of the affair.

page 219 note a The letter is injured.

page 220 note a Henry Sidney, Earl of Eomney.

page 220 note a One of the conspirators, who turned evidence.

page 221 note a Richard Savage, fourth Earl.

page 222 note a Burnet.

page 224 note a Stillingfleet's ” Discourse in Vindication of the Trinity” was answered by Locke's ” Letter to Bishop Stillingfleet concerning some passages relating to his Essay,” &c. ; and the war was carried on for some time.

page 224 note b In his ” Animadversions” upon Sherlock's "Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity;” and in his ” Tritheism charged upon Dr. Sherlock's new notion of the Trinity.”

page 224 note c “ Nouveaux Memoires sur l'Etat présente de la Chine,” by Louis Le Comte. Two vols. Amst. 1687, 12mo.

page 225 note a “ A New Voyage round the World,” by William Dampier. London, 1697, 8vo. Two additional volumes followed later.

page 226 note a “ Bncaniers of America : or a True Account of the most Remarkable Assaults committed of late years upon the Coasts of the West Indies by the Bucaniers of Jamaica and Tortuga, both English and French. Wherein are contained more especially the unparallel'd exploits of Sir Henry Morgan, our Jamaica Hero.…Printed for William Crooke.” London, 1684, 4to. The second volume contains ” The Dangerous Voyage and Bold Attempts of Captain Bartholomew Sharp and others” from the journal of Basil Ringrose ; 1685.

page 226 note b Alexander Olivier Exquemelin. ” Histoire des Avanturiers qui se sont signalez dansleslndes,” &c. Paris, 1686, 8vo.

page 226 note c “ An Account of several late Voyages and Discoveries to the South and North.” London, 1694, 8vo.

page 226 note d Frederick Marten. Observations on his voyage to Spitzbergen and Greenland were printed with Narborough's Voyages.

page 227 note a William Wake, Dean of Exeter ; afterwards Bishop of Lincoln, and Archbishop of Canterbury.

page 228 note a Henry Jermyn, Earl of Dover.

page 228 note b “ Numisma ; a Discourse of Medals, ancient and modern.” London, 1697, folio.

page 230 note a To celebrate the peace secured by the Treaty of Ryswick.

page 233 note a Sir John Holt, Chief Justice of the King's Bench. Charles Knollys, self-styled Earl of Banbury, had pleaded his peerage to an indictment charging him with the murder of his brother-in-law, which the judges had allowed.

page 234 note a “ The Annals and History of Cornelius Tacitus, by several hands ; with Political Reflections and Historical Notes by Mons. Amelot and Sir Henry Savile.”

page 235 note a Nicholas Amelot de la Houssaye.

page 235 note b Isabella, daughter of Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, and widow of Henry Fitz-Eoy, Pak e of Grafton, married Thomas Hamner, afterwards Bart., of Milden-hall, co. Suffolk.

page 236 note a “ Dialogues Posthumes dn Sieur de l a Bruyere snr le Quietisme.”

page 237 note a “ L. A. Mori rerum Eomanarum Epitome. Interpretation et notis illustravit Anna Tanaqnilli Fabri filia.” Paris, 1674, 4to.

page 238 note a a Richard Newton.

page 238 note b Simon Harcourt, M.P. for Abingdon.

page 240 note a a Daughter of Lord Hatton by his second marriage.

page 241 note a Rachel, daughter of Lord William Russell, married to William Cavendish, Lord Hartington, afterwards second Duke of Devonshire.

page 241 note b Daughter of the first Duke of Devonshire.

page 241 note c Mary, daughter of William, Earl of Portland, married to Algernon, second Earl of Essex.

page 241 note d Randal MacDonnell, fourth Earl of Antrim.

page 241 note e James Annesley, third Earl of Anglesey.

page 241 note f Margaret, daughter of Edward Lister, of Barwell, co. Leicester, married to Charles Knollys, sell-styled Earl of Banbury.

page 242 note a This is in anticipation. Leopold William Finch, CD., fifth son of Heneage, Earl of Winchelsea, died 14 Nov. 1702.

page 242 note b Anne, second daughter of the Dnke of Marlborough, married Charles Spencer, afterwards 3rd Earl of Sunderland, on the 14th September, 1699.

page 242 note c Penelope, daughter of Sir William Haslewood, of Maidwell, and wife of Sir Henry Seymour Portman. She was sister of Lord Hatton's third wife.

page 242 note d The confusion of b and p seems to have been a family failing.

page 242 note e “ Acetaria ; or a discourse of Sallets.” London, 1699, 8vo.

page 243 note a Robert Shirley, Lord Ferrers of Chartley, married secondly Selina, daughter of George Finch.

page 243 note b Thomas Herbert, the eight Earl.

page 243 note c The ” Hortus Indicus Malabaricus,” published at Amsterdam, in tvrelve volumes, folio, 1678-1703.

page 244 note a Lord Pembroke was made President of the Council this year.

page 244 note b Sir Francis Compton had several wives, all of whose names are not recorded.

page 245 note a Barbara, daughter of John Talbot, of Lacock, co. Wilts, and wife of Henry Yelverton, Viscount Longueville.

page 245 note b Margaret, daughter of Thomas Spencer, of Upton, co. Warwick, and wife of Thomas, fourth Lord Arundell of Wardour.

page 245 note c Jane, Dowager Lady Berkeley, daughter of Sir John Temple, Bart., married secondly William Earl of Portland.

page 245 note d Hester, daughter of Sir Basil Firebrace, and wife of Basil, fourt h Earl of Denbigh.

page 245 note e Thomas Sydney, fourth son of Robert, fourth Earl of Leicester, married Mary, daughter of Sir Robert Reeve, of Thwaite, Bart. ; his eldest brother Philip, Viscount L'Isle, married Anne Reeve. f Henry Sydney, son of Robert, second Earl of Leicester ; created Earl of Romney in 1G94.

page 246 note a Charles Mordannt, who became Earl of Peterborough in 1697.

page 246 note b “An Enquiry into the Causes of the Miscarriage of the Scots Colony at Darien.” Glasgow, 1700, 12mo.

page 246 note c Charles Montagu.

page 247 note a “A n Historical Eelation of the Island of Ceylon in the East Indies,” by B. Knox. London, 1681, fol.

page 247 note b An edition of Cæsar with engravings was published by Tonson in 1712.

page 247 note c “ A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America,” by Lionel Wafer. London, 1699, 8vo.

page 248 note a a Trances, daughter of Simon Bennet, of Beechampton, co. Bucks, and widow of James, fourth Earl of Salisbury.

page 248 note b Nathaniel, third Lor d Crew. He did not marry the lady mentioned so discourteously above.

page 248 note c William Grahme, Dean of Carlisle from 1686 to 1704.

page 248 note d Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Eichard Blake, and widow of Robert Berkley, of Spetchley. She was the author of ” A Method of Devotion,” which was published after her death.

page 249 note a The Grand Alliance between England, the Emperor, and Holland, against France.

John Methnen, Ambassador at Lisbon.

page 250 note a Frances Jennings, sister of the Duchess of Marlborough.

page 250 note b Hatton appears in the list printed at the end of Pepys's Diary as recipient of a twenty-shilling ring and mourning.

page 251 note a a The anniversary of the death of King William.