^{page vi note a} One effect of the spectacle the battle afforded to the people of the Hague was to put an end to a singular children's riot, in which De Witt played a somewhat Bony part.

^{page vi note b} Many of Hyde's answers are printed in the Clarendon State Papers. There are none here.

^{page vii note a} From his own account in Egerton MS. 2556, f. 40, drawn out month by month, the sum total being 790 guilders, 12 stivers.

^{page ix note a} See ihe King's mshuctiens for the Euke on his leaving Paris, dat. 10 July, in Cal. Clarendon State Papen, ii. p. 382.

^{page ix note b} His movements can he traced by the daily record he kept of his letters (now Egerton MS. 2556), beginning at; Jersey, 24 Jan., 1650, new style. Thus he was at the Hague, 16 Get, 1651–80 July, 1654 ; at Breda, 3–13 Aug.; at Antwerp, 16–18 Aug.; at Aix, 25 Aug.-8 Oct. ; and at Cologne by 10 Oct. The record breaks off, while he was still there, at 31 Dec, 1655, but begins again on 17 Jan., 1660, and continues down to 22 Mar., 1668.

^{page x note a} Calendar of State Papers, 1654, p. 237; Cobbett's State Trials, v. col. 622.

^{page xi note a} A number of Nicholas's answers have found their way into the Record Office (Calendar of State Papers, 1654, 1655).

^{page xii note a} Quarterly Review for April, 1886, p. 414 ; English Historical Review, articles by Mr. C. H. Firth, 1888, p. 323, and 1889, pp. 313, 525, by Mr. E. Palgrave, 1888, pp. 521, 722, and 1889, p. 110.

^{page xiv note a} See Mr. Firth's note in Eng. Hist. Rev., 1889, p. 316.

^{page xiv note b} Hist. of Rebellion, ed. 1849, v. p. 405, sqq.