^{page 3 note a} Chistopher Hatton, son of the writer of the preceding letter, made a knight of the Bath at the coronation of Charles I., and raised to the peerage as Baron Hatton, of Kirby, co. Northampton, 29 July, 1643. He died 4 July, 1670. This letter is addressed to him at Jesus College, Cambridge. He did not take a degree.

^{page 4 note a} William Le Neve became Mowbray Herald in 1624, knighted in 1634, and Clarenceux in 1635. He was present with Charles at the battle of Edgehill, previous to which he officially summoned the Parliamentary army to surrender, but “did it with great marks of fear, having a feeling sense of danger.” In 1658 he lost his reason, which he never recovered. He died in 1661.—Noble, History of the Coallege of Arms, p. 279.

^{page 4 note b} Norroy King of Arms, became Garter in 1644.

^{page 4 note c} Edward, second Viscount Conway, died in 1655.

^{page 5 note a} Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Stafford.

^{page 5 note b} Obadiah Sedgwick, one of the Westminster Assembly of Divines.

^{page 5 note c} The Royalist officer who commanded at York when taken by the Parliament in 1644, and subsequently at Oxford.

^{page 5 note d} Sir Abraham Dawes, Knt., of Putney, one of the farmers of the Customs.

^{page 5 note e} This is apparently Thomas Ripplingham, an officer of the Wardrobe, who had the reversion of the clerkship of the Wardrobe, and whose death is conjectured, in the Calendar of State Papers (Domest. 1637–8, p. 49), to have occurred in 1637.

^{page 6 note a} Sir William Acton, Bart, was Lord Mayor of London in 1641.

^{page 6 note b} John, second son of John Digby, Earl of Bristol.

^{page 7 note a} A lawyer, and London agent to the family.

^{page 7 note a} Elizabeth, wife of Christopher, first Lord Hatton, and daughter of Sir Charles Montagu, brother of Henry, first Earl of Manchester. This lady was killed by the explosion at Cornet Castle, Guernsey, 29–30 December 1672.

^{page 7 note a} On the previons day, 20th April.

^{page 7 note a} Francis Allen, member for Cockermouth. He had the courage to speak out, as appears from Ludlow's narrative, printed in Cobbett's Parliamentary History, vol. Hi. p. 1385, in which is the following: “Then Cromwell applied himself to the members of the House, who were in number between eighty and a hundred, and said to them, ‘It is you that hare forced me to this, for I haye sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work.’ Hereupon Alderman Allen told him, ‘That it was not yet gone so far but all things might be restored again, and that, if the soldiers were commanded out of the House and the mace returned, the public affairs might go on in their former course.’ But Cromwell, having now passed the Bubicon, not only rejected his advice, but charged him with an account of some hundred thousand pounds for which he threatened to question him, having been long Treasurer for the Army; and in a rage committed him to the custody of one of the musketeers. Alderman Allen told him, ‘That it was well known that it had not been his fault that his account was not made up long since, that he had often tendered it to the House, and that he asked no favour from any man in that matter.’” At the end of the same volume of the Parliamentary History is reprinted a tract entitled “The Mystery of the Good Old Cause,” wherein the Alderman is thus described: “Francis Allen, a goldsmith at St. Dunstan's in Fleet Street, was made Customer of London, esides other offices and gifts, and hath purchased at low rate the Bishop of Chester's house at Winchester and Waltham, was one of his Sovereign's Judges, and a constant Eumper.”

^{page 8 note a} Sir Gilbert Pickering, of Tichmersh, co, Northampton, a Nova Scotia baronet.

^{page 9 note a} Monk and Penn's victory, on the last days of July, over Van Tromp, who was killed in the action.

^{page 10 note a} The peace was concluded in April.

^{page 11 note a} Lieut. General Charles Fleetwood, Lord Deputy, succeeded by Henry Cromwell in 1655.

^{page 11 note b} Arise, or Rice, Evans, or, according to Anthony Wood, John Evans, a Welsh astrologer. His personal appearance is worthy of remembrance: “He was the most perfect saturnine person that ever was beheld. He was of a middle stature, broad forehead, beetle-brow'd, thick-shouldered, flat-nos'd, full lips, down-look'd, of black curling stiff hair, and splay-footed.”—Wood, Athen. Oxon. ii. 552.

^{page 11 note c} Charles Lyttelton, a lineal descendant of the famous Judge Lyttelton, was a younger son of Sir Thomas Lyttelton, of Hagley, co. Worcester, Bart., who fought and suffered as a Royalist. He waa born about 1630; and, while still a boy, took arms and was in Colchester during the siege. After its surrender he escaped to France; but returned in 1659, and took part in Sir George Booth's rising, when he was made prisoner. Being set at liberty, he joined Charles in Holland, and was employed in the secret negotiations with the King's friends in England. After the Restoration he was appointed, in 1661, Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica, under Lord Windsor, whom he accompanied to that island, and was about the same time knighted. Lord Windsor retiring almost immediately, Lyttelton succeeded him as Governor, and during his tenure of office was engaged in settling the island. The town of Port Royal was built in his time. He did not improve his fortunes in Jamaica; his wife and child died; and he returned to England in 1664. He soon afterwards obtained a commission in the Duke of York's (or Admiral's) regiment, which was employed, when occasion required, on board the fleet; and appears to have been appointed colonel almost immediately. He was also governor of Harwich and Landguard Fort, and afterwards of Sheerness; and held the office of cupbearer in the royal household. He finally rose to the rank of a brigadiergeneral under James II.; and sat in the parliament of 1685 for Bewdley.

After the Revolution he refused the oaths, and, resigning his appointments, retired to a country life at Hagley. In 1693, on the death of his brother Henry, he succeeded to the baronetcy, and died at an advanced age in 1716.

He was twice married. His first wife was Catherine, daughter of Sir William Fairfax, of Steeton, co. Tork, who had previously been married to Sir Martin Lister, son of Sir William Lister, of Thornton, co. York. She and her child died in Jamaica. Lyttelton chose for his second wife Anne, daughter of Thomas Temple, of Frankton, co. Warwick, and maid of honour to the Duchess of York. By her he had a large family. She is one of the characters in Grammont's Memoirs, wherein she figures as a dupe in a silly intrigue with Rochester. Lyttelton also appears in the same pages with the epithet of “sérieux.” Seriousness was not exactly a weakness of those times, least of all in Charles's court; and Lyttelton, in spite of the sneer, does not sink in our estimation under the charge. Those who read his many letters in these volumes will probably be of Evelyn's mind, who calls him “an honest gentleman and souldier.” His friendship with Hatton, begun in youth, was only ended by death. He was a most diligent correspondent; his letters fill three thick volumes.

^{page 13 note a} Sir James Livingston, of Kinnaird, Bart, created Viscount of Newburgh in 1647, and Earl of Newburgh and Viscount of Kinnaird in 1660. He died in 1670.

^{page 13 note b} Afterwards Groom of the Bedchamber to Charles II. I believe him to have been the son of Sir Richard Lane, Lord Keeper in 1645.

^{page 14 note a} The elder Sir Harry Vane. He was sent to Carisbrook.

^{page 14 note b} Third son of Francis, fourth Earl of Bedford, a royalist officer, and, after the Restoration, colonel of the 1st Foot Guards.

^{page 14 note c} Nicholas Tufton, Earl of Thanet in 1664. lie was kept in prison for two years.

^{page 15 note a} Thomas Windsor-Hickman, seventh Lord Windsor. He distinguished himself in the Royalist cause, especially at the battle of Naseby, and was created Earl of Plymouth in 1682. He was appointed Governor of Jamaica soon after the Restoration. Died 1687.

^{page 15 note b} Cromwell died on the 3rd Sept. and was buried on the 22nd October, 1658.

^{page 16 note a} Perhaps Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Saville, of Methley, Bart., who married: first, Sir William Cholmley, of Whitby, Bart., ob. 1663; and secondly, Sir Nicholas Strode, Bart.

^{page 16 note b} Perhaps he refers to Robert Rich, third Earl of Warwick, who died in the following year.

^{page 17 note a} The letters which I have assigned to this lady are without signature; but I have no doubt that she was the writer. She was, in all probability, one of the Bodviles of Carnarvonshire, perhaps a sister or near relative of Sarah, daughter of John Bodvile, who married Robert Robartes, Viscount Bodmin, son of the Earl of Radnor.

^{page 17 note b} A Colonel Hawley is mentioned in other letters.

^{page 17 note c} One of the Manchester family.

^{page 17 note d} Philip Stanhope, second Earl of Chesterfield, was brought up in Holland and rendered much service in forwarding the Restoration.

^{page 17 note e} Lionel Cranfleld, third Earl of Middlesex. Died 1674.

^{page 18 note a} Charles Stuart, Earl of Lichfield, became Duke of Richmond and Lenox in 1660; died 1672. His third wife was La Belle Stuart.

^{page 18 note b} Robert Rich became Earl of Warwick in 1658. He made his “civil retreat” very soon, in 1659.

^{page 18 note c} Frances, daughter of David Murray, Esq., Charles Lyttelton's flame, who jilted him for Sir Thomas Rouse, as appears below.

^{page 18 note d} Richard, son of Thomas Savage, Earl of Rivers, married Alice Trafford. His sister Mary married Henry Killigrew.

^{page 18 note e} Sir Thomas Rouse, of Rouse Lench, co. Worcester, Bart. His second wife was the lady above referred to, Frances, daughter of David Murray. He died in 1676.

^{page 19 note a} Horace, Epist. I. vii. 18.

^{page 20 note a} Samuel Tuke, of Crossing-Temple, co. Essex, made a baronet after the Restoration. The “King's Character,” which is here ascribed to him, is probably the pamphlet entitled, “The Faithful yet Imperfect Character of a Glorious King, King Charles I., His Country's and Religion's Martyr. Written by a Person of Quality.” London, 1660, 12mo.

^{page 21 note a} Sir William's Dayenant's Opera at the Duke's Theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields. Pepys, on the 2nd July, 1661, “went to Sir William Davenant's Opera; this being the fourth day that it hath begun.”

^{page 21 note b} Hender Bobartes, M.P. for Bodmin, second son of Lord Robartes.

^{page 21 note c} He lived to 1701.

^{page 21 note d} Elizabeth, daughter of John Holies, Earl of Clare, married to Wentworth Eitz-Gerald, Earl of Kildare.

^{page 21 note e} George, first Earl of Berkeley, married Elizabeth, daughter of John Massingberd, of co. Lincoln.

^{page 22 note a} John, second Lord Robartes, Lord Privy Seal 1661; Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 17 June, 1669; created Earl of Radnor 1679.

^{page 22 note b} One of the principal characters in Ben Jonson's play, “Epicoene or the Silent Woman.” See Pepys's Diary, 30 July, 1667, for another application of the play.

^{page 22 note c} George Lyttelton, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Browne, of Norwich. He afterwards had a company in his brother's regiment. Died in 1717.

^{page 23 note a} Sir Henry Lyttelton.

^{page 23 note b} Lord Windsor.

^{page 23 note c} Anne Savile, sister of George Savile, Marquess of Halifax, the Trimmer, and wife of Lord Windsor. His second wife was Ursula, daughter of Sir Thomas Widdrington, of Sherburne Grange, co. Northumberland.

^{page 23 note d} Sir Ralph Clare, of Caldwell, co. Worcester, a most active Royalist, was taken prisoner at the battle of Worcester. He is best known as a determined opponent of Richard Baxter at Kidderminster. Nash in his History of Wercestershire, ii. 45, engraves their portraits together. Sir Ralph died in 1670, aged 83.

^{page 24 note a} A scheme to render the Salwarp navigable, for the benefit of the salt trade of Droitwich, by means of locks. Lord Windsor persevered some time, but finally had to abandon the undertaking.—Nash's Worcestershire, ii. 306.

^{page 24 note b} Philadelphia, daughter of Thomas Carey, second son of Eobert, Earl of Monmouth, and wife of Sir Henry Lyttelton. Died in 1663.

^{page 25 note a} He sailed early in 1662 for Jamaica.

^{page 25 note b} William, a younger son of Lord Keeper Coventry, secretary to the Duke York. He became a Privy Councillor, and was knighted in 1665, and was a commissioner of the Treasury in 1667.

^{page 25 note c} Catherine, daughter of Sir William Fairfax, of Steeton, co. York, and widow of Sir Martin Lister, son of Sir William Lister, of Thornton, co. York. She died, with her little son, in Jamaica, 26 Jan. 1663.

^{page 26 note a} Born in 1613. Bishop of Down and Connor in 1660, and appointed to administer the see of Dromore in 1662. He died in 1667. Let not the reader smile at the obsequiousness of the letter. In the seventeenth century a peer was a personage to be approached only in one way; and even the author of “Holy Living” and “Holy Dying” was not in advance of his time.

^{page 27 note a} That is, I presume, Tractatus Doctorum and Salmeron.

^{page 27 note b} James Butler, Duke of Ormond.

^{page 27 note c} The Bishop's affectionate regard even extends to the address of the letter, which is “To the Right Hon^ble and my Dearest Lord,” &c.

^{page 27 note d} Catherine, wife of Sir Charles Lyttelton. See aboye, p. 12, note.

^{page 28 note a} Spanish Town.

^{page 29 note a} Lyttelton was knighted before leaving England.

^{page 30 note a} In the latter part of 1662, Lord Windsor equipped an expedition against Cuba, which effected a landing and destroyed the town of St. Jago. It appears by this letter that Lord Windsor had already left Jamaica, leaving Lyttelton in command. There appears to be no record of the despatch of the fleet above referred to; at all events, it did nothing.

^{page 30 note b} Sir Edward Nicholas, Secretery of State.

^{page 30 note c} Lyttelton was Chancellor of the Island under Lord Windsor's government.

^{page 31 note a} Point Cagua or Cagway, the end of the long spit of land, part of which forms the ill-omened Palisades, at the entrance to Port Royal Harbour. On this point stood the first town of Port Royal, begun in 1657 and in course of construction at the period of this letter. It was destroyed by the terrible earthquake of 7 June, 1692. The name of Cagua is said to be a corruption of caragua or coratoe, the Indian name of the great aloe, which flourished in the neighbourhood. In the early maps Port Royal is called Cagway Harbour.—See History of Jamaica, 1774, vol. ii. 139.

^{page 31 note b} Lady Lyttelton died on the 26th January.

^{page 33 note a} This appears to be Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Newport, Viscount Newport, who became the second wife of Sir Henry Lyttelton.

^{page 34 note a} War was formally declared in March 1665.

^{page 34 note b} Reasoning justified by the event, for Clarendon retained the great seal and kept his enemies at bay till August, 1667.

^{page 34 note c} Charles Berkeley, Viscount Fitzhardinge, afterwards Earl of Falmouth. He was killed in the sea-fight with the Dutch, 3 June, 1665.

^{page 34 note d} Sir Henry Bennett, Secretary of State, afterwards Earl of Arlington.

^{page 35 note a} The parliamentary general John Lambert, kept prisoner in Guernsey, where he died.

^{page 36 note a} Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton.

^{page 36 note b} Admiral Sir John Lawson, distinguished himself in the service of the Parliament. Joined Monk in aiding in the Restoration. Died of a wound received in the action of 3 June, 1665.

^{page 36 note c} Sir William Berkeley, Vice-Admiral of the White; killed in action 1 June, 1666.

^{page 37 note a} Afterwards Admiral Sir Robert Holmes.

^{page 37 note b} George, Lord Berkeley, made an Earl in 1679.

^{page 37 note c} Henry Howard, brother -of George, fourth Earl of Suffolk, whom he succeeded.

^{page 37 note d} Edward Montagu, Earl of Sandwich, killed at the battle of Southwold Bay, 28 May, 1672.

^{page 38 note a} Second son of Sir William Fairfax of Steeton, and so Lyttelton's brother-in-law. He served in Jamaica, and afterwards became Colonel of the 4th Foot, Brigadier-General, and Governor of Limerick in 169G. He died in 1712.

^{page 39 note a} So Pepys, 14 June, 1667: “Mr. Hater tells me at noon that some rude people have been, as lie hears, at my Lord Chancellor's, where they haye cut down the trees before his house and broke his windows; and a gibbet either set up before or painted upon his gate, and these three words writ: ‘Three sights to be seen, Dunkirke, Tangier, and a barren Queene.’” Clarendon House was in St. James's Street.

^{page 39 note b} James, son of the Duke of York, created Duke of Cambridge, 23 Aug. 1664; died 1667.

^{page 40 note a} Catherine, second wife and widow of Edward Barrett, Lord Barrett of Newburgh, commonly styled Lord Newburgh. She was daughter of Hugh Penn, of Waltonunder-Edge, co. Gloucester.

^{page 40 note b} Younger son of Robert, second Earl of Warwick. His two elder brothers succeeded to the title.

^{page 40 note a} Charles Rich, fourth Earl of Warwick; died 24 Aug. 1673.

^{page 41 note a} The Due de Beaufort's expedition to Gigeri, or Djidjelli, in Algeria, to chastise the Algerine corsairs.

^{page 42 note a} Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel Hervey Bagot.

^{page 42 note b} Daniel O'Neil, husband of Catherine, Countess of Chesterfield.

^{page 42 note c} James Hamilton, eldest son of Sir George Hamilton, of the Abercorn family. He lost a leg in action against the Dutch, and died in 1673.

^{page 42 note d} Sir William Blakiston, of Gibside, Bart.

^{page 42 note e} Francis, Lord Hawley, died in 1684.

^{page 42 note f} Mary, daughter of George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham, married 1, Charles, Lord Herbert, son of Philip, Earl of Pembroke ; 2, James Stuart, Duke of Eichmond and Lenox ; and 3, Thomas Howard, brother of the Earl of Carlisle. She had no issue by this last marriage.

^{page 42 note g} ? £40,000.

^{page 42 note h} Mary, daughter of the Duke of Richmond and the aboye Mary Villiers, and thus niece of George, second Duke of Buckingham, married to Richard, Earl of Arran, son of the Duke of Ormond.

^{page 43 note a} Captain William Sheldon, of Broadway, co. Worcester; died in Guernsey in 1680.

^{page 45 note a} He lired till 1682.

^{page 47 note a} The Duke and Duchess of York went down to York in this, the year of the plague, on the 5th August, and stayed till the 23rd Sept. See Reresby's Memoirs.

^{page 47 note b} Margaret Lucas, sister of Lord Lucas, second wife of William Cavendish, first Duke of Newcastle.

^{page 48 note a} This should be a daughter of William Fairfax, of Steeton, Lyttelton's brotherin-law. According to Foster's Yorkshire Pedigrees, however, his daughter Isabella was born later.

^{page 48 note b} Perhaps a mistake for William Denton, the physician.

^{page 49 note a} Queen Louisa, widow of John IV., died 28 Feb. 1666. The news seems to have reached England only at the end of March.— See Pepys's Diary, 28 Mar. 1666.

^{page 49 note b} Henry Jermyn, Earl of St. Alban's.

^{page 49 note c} Valentine Greatrakes, an Irishman. He entered the service of the Parliament; but, on the Restoration, being thrown on his own resources, he found himself inspired from Heaven to effect cures. He first began with the king's evil, which he pretended to cure by prayer and touching; but soon advanced to all other infirmities, and seems really to have done something by “stroaking” or rubbing. At all events many trustworthy persons attested his success.

^{page 49 note d} Dr. Herbert Croft.

^{page 49 note e} “The Miraculous Conformist, or An Account of severall Marvailous Cures performed by the stroaking of the Hands of Mr. Valentine Greatarick; with a Physicall Discourse thereupon, in a letter to the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq. By Henry Stubbe, Physician at Stratford-upon-Avon, in the county of Warwick.” Oxford, 1666, sm. 4to.

^{page 50 note a} Margaret, daughter of Eichard Sackyille, third Earl of Dorset, married John Tufton, seeond Earl of Thanet, who died in 1664. Her daughter Cecilia married Christopher Hatton in 1667.

^{page 50 note b} This lady after signs herself “the afflicted.” One might imagine that her affliction was a morose husband; it seems, however, to have been loss of children.

^{page 52 note a} Frances Theresa, daughter of Sir Walter Stewart, third son of Walter, Lord Blantyre, the famous beauty, who had just now become the wife of Charles, Duke of Richmond and Lenox.

^{page 53 note a} Four days after this the Dutch were at Chatham.

^{page 53 note b} Aubrey de Vere, twentieth and last Earl of Oxford, He was the colonel of the Royal Regiment of Horse, or Oxford Blues.

^{page 53 note c} George, Lord Berkeley.

^{page 54 note a} James Howard, Earl of Suffolk; died 1689.

^{page 54 note b} Elizabeth, daughter of Francis, Viscount Newport, second wife of Sir Henry Lyttelton. She married, secondly, Edward Harvey, of Combe, co. Surrey.

^{page 54 note c} Cecilia, daughter of John Tufton, Earl of Thanet, lately married to Christopher Hatton. She was killed in the explosion at Cornet Castle, Guernsey, 29–30 December, 1672.

^{page 55 note a} Christopher Hatton succeeded his father as second Lord Hatton, 4 July, 1670.

^{page 55 note b} William Craven, Earl Craven, died 1697.

^{page 55 note c} Audley-End near Waltham, co. Essex, purchased of the Suffolk family by Charles II., to be used as a palace. It was reconveyed to the family after the Revolution.

^{page 56 note a} Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Carey, son of Robert, Earl of Monmouth, and wife of John Mordaunt, second son of John, Earl of Peterborough, created Viscount Mordaunt in 1659.

^{page 56 note b} Sir Thomas Lynch succeeded Sir Thomas Modyford as Governor of Jamaica in 1671.

^{page 56 note c} As governor of the island.

^{page 57 note a} Afterwards Governor of Barbados.

^{page 58 note a} Sir John Morton, of Melbourne St. Andrew, co. Nott., Bart.; died in 1698.

^{page 58 note b} Henry Brouncker, Groom of the Bed-chamber to the Duke of York, and cofferer to Charles II., who succeeded, in 1684, his brother William, 2nd Lord Brouncker, the President of the Royal Society. Pepys's character of Mm is not flattering: “a pestilent rogue, an atheist, that would have sold his king and country for sixpence almost, so corrupt and wicked a rogue he is by all men's report.”—Diary, 20 Oct. 1667. Evelyn says little better.

^{page 58 note c} Major John Creed, of Oundle, co. Northampton.

^{page 58 note d} Master of the Ordnance.

^{page 58 note e} William Legge, brother of George, afterwards 1st Earl of Dartmouth, Groom of the Bedchamber, and a captain in the Earl of Oxford's regiment of horse. He here seems to have held some office in the Ordnance, of which his brother George was at this time Lieutenant-General. Afterwards Lt.-Col. of the Queen's Horse (1st Dragoon Guards).

^{page 59 note a} Sir J. Atkins.

^{page 59 note b} He landed soon after. Evelyn saw him on the 4th November: “Saw the Prince of Orange newly come to see the King his uncle; he has a manly, courageous, wise countenance, resembling his mother and the Duke of Gloncester, both deceased.”

^{page 60 note a} Lord Hatton's brother. He was sometime Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey and commanded a company in that island. Later he was a captain in Lord Huntingdon's regiment, now the 13th Foot. He married a widowed daughter of Chief Justice Scroggs, Elizabeth Gilby. A large number of the letters in these volumes are his; in which, in addition to mere gossip, he now and then displays the taste for arboriculture which he had in common with his brother, and in other places shows that he was well read and had more than ordinary learning. His connection with Scroggs adds importance to the letters in which he alludes to the doings of that worthy.

^{page 60 note b} William Scroggs, according to Dugdale, the son of “a one-eyed butcher near Smithfleld Bars, and his mother a big fat woman with a red face like an ale-wife,” was, at all events, a man of education, having entered Oxford in 1639, at the age of 16, where he took a degree. He was called to the Bar in 1653, and, being endowed with “a bold front, handsome person, easy elocution, and ready wit,” he made rapid progress; was knighted about 1662; became Serjeant in 1669, judge of the Common Pleas in 1676, and Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench in 1678. Scroggs's dissolute character and evil conduct is notorious, and the scandal of raising such a man to the Bench was too great even for those days. His ratting in the trials on the Popish plot, from the attacking to the attacked side, is said to have been caused by a sudden discovery that Shaf tesbury had no influence at Court. At any rate, he made enemies of Oates and Bedlow, and, though he beat them with their own weapons, he was impeached in Parliament, and only escaped by the prorogation. It was, therefore, thought prudent to remove him in 1681, on a pension of £1,500. He died in 1683. —Eoss, Judges of England, vii. 164.

^{page 62 note a} John, Lord Berkeley of Stratton, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1670 and 1671.

^{page 62 note b} Richard Jones, third Viscount, afterwards Earl of, Ranelagh, Vice-Treasurer of Ireland, Died in 1711.

^{page 63 note a} Lord Berkeley of Stratton.

^{page 63 note b} Edward Watson, second Lord Rockingham. He married Anne Wentworth, daughter of Strafford. Died in 1691.

^{page 63 note c} Perhaps Sir Koger Norwich, of Brampton, co. Northampton, M.P. for the county.

^{page 63 note d} Lord Howard, of Castle Rising, afterwards, in 1677, sixth Duke of Norfolk.

^{page 63 note e} Sir Philip Honywood, Lientenant-Governor of Portsmouth.

^{page 64 note a} Perhaps Lady Mary Hay, daughter of George, Earl of Kinnoul, and wife of George Keith, eighth Earl Marischal.

^{page 64 note b} A French lady, whose name is unknown, wife of Charles, Lord Gerard of Brandon, afterwards Earl of Macclesfield.

^{page 64 note c} Mary, daughter of Thomas, Lord Fairfax, and wife of George Villiers, second Duke of Buckingham.

^{page 64 note d} This story is too indecent to print. The only interest that it has is, that it was probably the source of the anecdote of Lady Chesterfield's stockings in Grammont's Mémoires.

^{page 64 note e} Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel Hervey Bagot, widow of Charles Berkeley, Earl of Ealmouth.

^{page 64 note f} Mary, at this time a child, afterwards married to Gilbert Coryn Gerrard.

^{page 64 note g} John Berkeley, second son of John, Lord Berkeley of Stratton, who afterwards succeeded to the title, in 1682.

^{page 64 note h} Richard Nicholla, a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to the Duke of York. He served as a volunteer and was killed in the battle of Southwold Bay, 28 May, 1672.

^{page 65 note a} Baptist May, Keeper of the Privy Purse.

^{page 66 note a} John Churchill, afterwards Duke of Marlborough.

^{page 66 note b} Perhaps Captain Henry Herbert, afterwards, in 1678, Lord Herbert of Cher-bury.

^{page 66 note c} Anthony Crow.

^{page 66 note d} Dorothy, daughter of Sir Peter Osborne, and wife of Sir William Temple, who had been lately recalled from his embassy to Holland.

^{page 67 note a} Evelyn tells us that when, at Charles's request, he had undertaken to write a History of the Dutch War, and had submitted his plan, “in the afternoone his Majesty tooke me aside into the balconie over the terrace, extreamly pleas'd with what had been told him I had begun in order to his commands, and enjoyning me to proceed vigorously in it. He told me he had ordered the Secretaries of State to give me all necessary assistance of papers and particulars relating to it, and enjoining me to make it a little keene, for that the Hollanders had very unhandsomely abus'd him in their pictures and libells.”—Diary, 28 Aug. 1670.

^{page 68 note a} William Garraway, member for Chichester.

^{page 68 note b} Francis Millington.

^{page 68 note c} John Upton.

^{page 68 note d} Son of Sir William Savile, and brother of the Marquess of Halifax. Vice-Chamberlain to Charles II., and M.P. for Newark.

^{page 68 note e} A grandson of Francis, fourth Earl of Bedford, and standard-bearer to the King.

^{page 68 note f} Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, widow of Joceline Percy, eleventh Earl of Northumberland.

^{page 68 note g} Margaret, daughter of William, Lord Spencer of Wormleighton, and third wife of Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Ashley, afterwards Earl of Shaftesbury.

^{page 69 note a} Robert Spencer, Earl of Sunderland.

^{page 69 note b} See Evelyn's account of Euston. Diary, 16 Oct. 1671.

^{page 69 note c} Afterwards Earl of Danby.

^{page 69 note d} Sir Thomas Lyttelton of Stoke Milburgh, co. Salop, Bart., the statesman. Speaker of the House of Commons in William III.'s reign. He was of a younger branch of the Lytteltons, being descended from Thomas Lyttelton of Spechley, second son of Judge Lyttelton, while Charles Lyttelton claimed the elder son, William, as hia ancestor. Sir Thomas had been joined with Sir Thomas Osborne in the office of Treasurer of the Navy, but was now ousted. He afterwards held the office, in 1699.

^{page 69 note e} Ferdinando, one of Sir Charles's younger brothers.

^{page 69 note f} Colonel Sir Harry Jones, killed at the assault on Maastricht.

^{page 70 note a} Of East Hatley, co. Cambridge, Bart. He had been ambassador to Holland under Cromwell, and was very unpopular with the Dutch. On his sudden return from Holland early in 1672, his conduct there was thought so unsatisfactory that he was sent to the Tower.

^{page 70 note b} Peace was made with the Algerines at the end of this year.

^{page 70 note c} Sir Samuel Barnavdiston, of Brightwell-Hall, co. Suffolk, Bart. He sat for the county in Charles's third parliament in 1679.

^{page 71 note a} Of Mildenhall, co. Suffolk, Bart, member for the county.

^{page 71 note b} Sir Harbottle Grimston, who held this office through Charles II.'s reign. The announcement of his peerage is incorrect; though the title was actually conferred on a descendant in 1790. Sir Harbottle married, for his second wife, Annie, daughter of Sir Nathaniel Bacon, and niece of Lord Bacon.

^{page 71 note c} These promotions did not take place, the Speaker, Sir Edward Tumour, Bart, had become Lord Chief Baron in May; and Sir Robert Atkyns was made a judge of the Common Pleas in 1672, and Lord Chief Baron in 1689.

^{page 72 note a} John, first Lord Belasyse.

^{page 72 note b} Cosimo III. Grand Duke of Tuscany.

^{page 72 note c} Sir Richard Beach, commanding the “Hampshire” frigate.

^{page 72 note d} i. e. Three millions of liores, the sum stipulated by the secret treaty of Dover.

^{page 73 note a} William Russell, fifth Earl, and afterwards, in 1694, Duke of Bedford, father of Lord William Russell.

^{page 73 note b} Francis, Lord Newport, afterwards Earl of Bradford.

^{page 73 note c} See above, p. 50, note^a.

^{page 73 note d} Nicholas Tufton, third Earl, who died in 1679.

^{page 73 note e} Elizabeth, daughter of William, Lord Howard of Effingham, and widow of John Mordaunt, first Earl of Peterborough. Her two sons, mentioned above, were Henry second Earl of Peterborough in 1642, who died in 1697, and Charles, created Viscount Mordaunt in 1659, who died in 1675.

^{page 74 note a} The closing of the Exchequer took place on 2nd January.

^{page 74 note b} Paymaster-General.

^{page 74 note c} Anne Tufton, Lady Thanet's youngest daughter, who married Samuel, son of Sir Harbottle Grimston.

^{page 74 note d} I suspect that this is the Major Norwood, who had been Governor of Dunkirk: “Then over the Parke (where I first in my life, it being a great frost, did see people sliding with their skeates, which is a very pretty art), to Mr. Coventry's chamber to St. James's, where we all met to a venison pasty, Major Norwood being with us, whom they did play upon for his surrendering of JDunkirke.” —Pepys, Diary, 1 Dec. 1662. He appears to have held a post at Court under the Master of the Horse.

^{page 74 note e} At this time ambassador at Paris. Lord Montagu in 1683, and Duke in 1705. He is best remembered as “the faithless and shameless man” who took part against Danby; and less, as the builder of the Montague House, which became the British Musenm.

^{page 75 note a} Baronet, elder brother of Sidney Godolphin. He was ambassador to Spain.

^{page 75 note b} Vice-Admiral commmanding in the Mediterranean; drowned in the action with the Dutch, 11 Aug. 1673. With regard to his mission to the Algerines, see his instructions printed in Memoirs on the English Affairs, 1660–1673, by James, Duke of York. London, 1729. 8vo.

^{page 75 note c} Anne, daughter of Sir Philip Carey, of Stanwell, co. Middlesex, and wife of William, sixth Lord Willoughby.

^{page 75 note d} Heneage Mnch, second Earl of Winchelsea.

^{page 75 note e} Henry, Lord Howard of Castle Rising.

^{page 75 note f} See above, p. 37, note ^d.

^{page 75 note g} Admiral Sir George Ayscue, or Askew; distinguished himself in the sea fight of 1st June, 1666, where he was taken prisoner.

^{page 75 note h} Clerk of the Council; John Evelyn's father-in-law. See Evelyn's Diary, 23 Jan. 1672: “To London, in order to Sir Eichard Browne, my father-in-law, resigning his place of Clerke of the Council to Joseph Williamson, Esq. who was admitted and was knighted.”

^{page 76 note a} Arthur Capel, first Earl of Essex.

^{page 76 note b} Richard Vaughan, second Earl of Carbery.

^{page 76 note c} Anne, daughter of Sir George Savile, afterwards Marquess of JIaliiax, married to John Vaughan, afterwards third Earl of Carbery.

^{page 76 note d} Richard Power, Lord Le Poer, Earl of Tyrone in 1673.

^{page 76 note e} Sir Nicholas Armorer; at this time held a post in the household.

^{page 76 note f} An old cavalier officer. Lieut.-Col. of the regiment of Irish Guards.

^{page 76 note g} Sir Thomas, afterwards Lord, Clifford.

^{page 76 note h} Louise Renée de Querouaille, afterwards Duchess of Portsmouth. This is a new spelling of the name, which usually appears as Carwell.

^{page 77 note a} Evelyn thought otherwise (Diary, 4 NOT. 1670): “I now also saw that famous beauty, but in my opinion of a childish, simple, and baby face, Mademoiselle de Queronaille.”

^{page 77 note b} William, son of Sir William Walter, of Saresden, co. Oxon., Bart., married Mary, daughter of John, second Earl of Thanet.

^{page 77 note c} John Cosin, Bishop of Durham, died 15 Jan. 1672.

^{page 77 note d} John Dolben, translated to York in 1683.

^{page 77 note e} John Wilkins, died on the 19th November of this year.

^{page 78 note a} John Cecil, fourth Earl of Exeter, died in 1678.

^{page 78 note b} Colonel Mervyn Touchet, afterwards fourth Earl of Castlehaven.

^{page 79 note a} Elizabeth, daughter of Lionel Cranfield, Earl of Middlesex, and widow of Edmund Sheffield, second Earl of Mulgrave.

^{page 79 note b} Timothy Clarke, physician.

^{page 79 note c} Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

^{page 79 note d} Mary, second daughter of Sir John Lewis, of Ledstone, Bart.; married to Robert Leke, Lord Deincourt, son of Nicholas, Earl of Scarsdale.

^{page 79 note e} Theophilus Hastings, seventh Earl of Huntingdon, married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir J. Lewis.

^{page 79 note f} Sarah, daughter of Sir Thomas Foot, Lord Mayor of London. Her second husband was Denzil Onslow.

^{page 79 note g} Colonel (?) Edward Vernon, one of the Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber.

^{page 79 note h} Colonel Fitz-Gerald, formerly Deputy-Governor of Tangier.

^{page 80 note a} Richard Beauvoir, of Guernsey, sometime adjutant in Lyttelton's regiment.

^{page 80 note b} Duchy of Lancaster.

^{page 81 note a} A slip of the pen for Bristol, which see Dr. Guy Carleton held. Kobert Creighton was Bishop of Bath.

^{page 81 note b} Ormier, or oreille de mer, a shell-fish so called from its shape. Scroggs (see below, p. 115) refers to them as “those lympitts y' were never seene in England.”

^{page 81 note c} The two declarations appeared on the 16th and 17th March.

^{page 81 note d} Thomas Butler, the gallant Earl.

^{page 82 note a} Sir Fretcheville Hollis. Both he and Captain Elliot were killed at Southwold Bay, 28 May, 1672.

^{page 82 note b} Afterwards Earl of Dartmouth.

^{page 82 note c} M.P. for Knaresborough. He was second to the Earl of Shrewsbury in his fatal duel with Buckingham. See Pepys, Diary, 17 Jan. 1668.

^{page 82 note d} Edmund Andross.

^{page 83 note a} Louis Duras, Marquis de Blanquefort, created Lord Duras in 1673; succeeded his father-in-law as Earl of Feversham in 1677.

^{page 83 note b} Lyttelton's eldest son by his second marriage, who entered the army, and, much to his father's displeasure, went over to the Prince of Orange at the Revolution. He died unmarried.

^{page 84 note a} A native of Guernsey, afterwards a captain in Lyttelton's regiment.

^{page 86 note a} Sir Charles Harbord, serving as a volunteer, was killed.

^{page 86 note b} Afterwards Sir Richard Haddock; the only officer of the “Royal James” who escaped.

^{page 86 note c} Two of the captains in Lyttelton's (the Admiral's) regiment.

^{page 86 note d} Besides Bromley and Bennett, Captains Burgh and Barry were killed. By a whimsical accident the letter B. was unfortunate in the regiment on this day.

^{page 87 note a} A native of Guernsey; an agent for Lord Hatton in England.

^{page 87 note b} Sir John Cox, of the “Prince.”

^{page 87 note c} In the “Cambridge.”

^{page 88 note a} Francis Digby, second son of George, second Earl of Bristol, in command of the “Henry.”

^{page 88 note b} Sir John Chichely. His ship, the “Royal Catharine,” was captured, but was retaken by the crew, who overpowered the prize crew.

^{page 88 note c} He probably means Elzevir.

^{page 88 note d} The letter is torn here.

^{page 88 note e} Isaac White, a sea captain.

^{page 89 note a} “A true Relation of the Engagement of His Majesties Fleet under the command of His Royal Highness with the Dutch Fleet, May 28, 1672. In a letter from Henry Savile, Esq., on board His Royal Highness, to the Earl of Arlington, Principal Secretary of State. Published by Authority.” Lond. 1672. sm. fol.

^{page 89 note b} Matthew Wren, eldest son of Matthew Wren, Bishop of Norwich. He was first secretary to the Earl of Clarendon, and afterwards admiral's secretary. He died at this time. Sir Christopher Wren was his cousin. Savile did not get his place, as appears by the next letter.

^{page 89 note c} Anne, daughter of Thomas, Lord Coventry, and sister of Henry Coventry, was the mother of Henry Savile.

^{page 89 note d} To Sweden.

^{page 89 note e} Samuel Tatham, the regimental surgeon.

^{page 90 note a} i. e. his son-in-law, Sir Philip Carteret.

^{page 91 note n} Johan Boreel, Heer van Westhoven, Dutch ambassador in England. He died in 1673.

^{page 91 note b} Sir Gabriel Sylvius.

^{page 91 note c} One of Lord Aston's family ?

^{page 91 note d} Halifax, Buckingham, and Arlington were sent soon after this on a mission to Holland, but returned on the 21st July without effecting anything.

^{page 92 note a} Richard Bagot, who was major in the regiment in 1687.

^{page 92 note b} George Lyttelton appears in the list of the regiment as captain still in 1687. (Harl. MS. 4847: “List of officers of His Ma^to army. Nov. 1687.”) In this list it is a curious fact that in one company George Lyttelton is captain and Francis Izard his lieutenant, and that the next is commanded by Captain Francis Izod with George Littleton for lieutenant. Whether by this transparent diversity of spelling they succeeded in holding two companies and drew double pay cannot now be settled. But they had two veritable ensigns, so that the two companies may be presumed to have existed.

^{page 92 note c} Humphrey Cornwall.

^{page 92 note d} Afterwards Duke of Marlborough.

^{page 94 note a} “he” in orig.

^{page 94 note b} JohD, son of Robert Werden, of Leyland, co. Lane. He was created a baronet this year.

^{page 95 note a} In the Duke of York's household.

^{page 95 note b} Earl of Essex.

^{page 96 note a} Sir Philip Carteret, son of Sir George Carteret. He married Jemima, daughter of the Earl of Sandwich, and was killed with his father-in-law at Southwold Bay.

^{page 96 note b} Lyttelton was not so pleased to find out afterwards that Izod had served under Cromwell.

^{page 96 note c} Claudia Felicita, daughter of Frederic Charles, Archduke of Tyrol-Innsbruck, one of the princesses for whom negotiations were entered into for marriage with the Duke of York. Another was Eleanor Magdalen, daughter of Philip William, Elector of Neuberg. Both these princesses were married in succession to the Emperor Leopold, in 1673 and 1676.

^{page 96 note d} Henry Eelton.

^{page 96 note e} Charles Fitz-Charles, natural son of Charles II. by Catharine Peg, wife of Sir Edward Green, Bart. He was created Earl of Plymouth; married Bridget Osborne, daughter of Lord Danby; and died at Tangier in 1679.

^{page 97 note a} Elizabeth, daughter of William Cecil, Earl of Exeter, and widow of Thomas Howard, first Earl of Berkshire.

^{page 98 note a} Lord Le Poer. See above, p. 76.

^{page 98 note b} At this time Sir Walter Vane commanded the famous Holland regiment, now the 3rd Buffs. At the end of 1673 he was appointed to command the newly raised regiment, now the 6th Ifoot.

^{page 98 note c} See above, p. 83.

^{page 99 note a} John Sheffield, third Earl of Mulgraye, afterwards Duke of Buckinghamshire. He showed same qualities as a naval officer; and was present at Southwold Bay on hoard Lord Ossory's ship, the “Victory.” His solicitations for a command were long disregarded by the Duke of York, who preferred old sailors to young courtiers as his captains; but he at last had the “Koyal Catharine” given to him.—See his Memoirs.

^{page 99 note b} He was appointed soon after, but not immediately.

^{page 99 note c} Edward Montagu, second Earl of Sandwich.

^{page 100 note a} Thomas, second Viscount Fanshawe.

^{page 100 note b} Sir Daniel was not dead, and served again at Constantinople.

^{page 101 note a} Sir Orlando Bridgman. The immediate cause of his removal was, according to Burnet (Hist, of Own Time, i. 307), his refusal to affix the great seal to the Declaration of Indulgence.

^{page 101 note b} Edward Bokewell, ruined by the shutting up of the Exchequer.

^{page 102 note a} Dr. John Wilkins.

^{page 102 note b} Gertrude, daughter of William Pierrepont of Thoresby, second wife of Georgo Savile, Lord Halifax.

^{page 103 note a} The death of his mother and wife, caused by a powder explosion at Cornet Castle, Guernsey, 30–29 Dec. 1673.

^{page 103 note b} They were buried in Westminster Abbey, 11 Jan. 167⅔.—Chester, Westminster Abbey Registers, 1876.

^{page 105 note a} Afterwards Admiral Sir John Narborough ?

^{page 106 note a} Best remembered by his not altogether unsuspicious transactions in the West Indies.

^{page 107 note a} i. e. by the side of.

^{page 107 note b} William, sixth Lord Willoughby, of Parham. Sir J. Atkyns succeeded him.

^{page 107 note c} See Evelyn's interesting account of Clifford's retirement and death.—Diary, 25 July, 18 Aug. 1673.

^{page 108 note a} John Granville, Earl of Bath; died, 1701.

^{page 108 note b} In consequence of the Test Act.

^{page 109 note a} This passage, “who are very strong … … landmen” is in cipher.

^{page 109 note b} Marshal Frederic de Schomberg, afterwards, in 1691, Duke of Schomberg; killed at the Boyne. See below, p. 111, note ^a.

^{page 109 note c} “D. Munmouth” and “disbanded; if not” in cipher.

^{page 110 note a} See above, p. 96, note ^c.

^{page 110 note b} From “to delay” to “confusion” in cipher.

^{page 111 note a} Burnet (Own Time, i. 345), gives Schomberg a high character, but says that, owing to his having been in the French service, he was looked upon with suspicion by the English nation “as one sent over from France to bring our army under a French discipline, and so he was hated by the nation and not much loved by the Court. …… The Duke of Buckingham hated him, for he hoped to have commanded the army. And as an army is a very unacceptable thing to the English nation, so it came to be the more odious when commanded by a general sent over from France.” After the action of the 11th August, Burnet adds (i. 352) that Schomberg, seeing the difficulties of his position increased by the conduct of the French fleet, “made haste to get out of England, to prevent an address to send him away: and he was by that time as weary of the court as the court was of him.” Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire, in his Memoirs gives us the story of Prince Eupert firing upon Schomberg's ship, the “Greyhound,” in which Sheffield himself was sailing, beca,use he had hoisted a regimental flag. According to him also, the Duke of York used his influence in Monmouth's favour against Schomberg.

^{page 111 note b} Williamsom became Principal Secretary of State in September, 1674; and Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, succeeded Henry Jermyn, Earl of St. Albans, in the office of Lord Chamberlain of the Household, in the same year.

^{page 112 note a} See above, p. 60, note ^b.

^{page 113 note a} Charlotte, daughter of Charles Stanley, Earl of Derby, and wife of Thomas Savage, Lord Colchester, eldest son of Thomas, third Earl Rivers.

^{page 113 note b} Between Prince Rupert and the Dutch, 11 Aug. 1073.

^{page 114 note a} “None of the French shipa engaged, except one, who charged their admiral for his ill conduct: but, instead of reward, he was clapt in the Bastille on his return to France."—Burnet, Own Time, i. 352.

^{page 115 note a} William Paston, son of Robert, Viscount, afterwards Earl, of Yarmouth, married Charlotte Jemima Maria, natural daughter of Charles II. and Elizabeth Killigrew, wife of Francis Boyle, Viscount Shannon. He succeeded to the title.

^{page 116 note a} Scroggs must have been drinking his Lordship's health pretty freely before he began the letter, to judge from the drunken appearance of the handwriting.

^{page 117 note a} Ormiers. Sco above, p. 81, note ^b.

^{page 118 note a} John Ayloffe, a lawyer, connected, not only with the Hattons, as appears by this letter, but also with the Hydes, and, through them, with James, Duke of York. He was concerned in the Rye House plot; but his name will always be remembered in connection with Monmouth's rebellion, as told in the pages of Macaulay. His answer to James, just before his execution, will outliTe his name : “You had better be frank with me, Mr. Ayloffe,” said the King, “you know that it is in my power to pardon you.” “It may be in your power; but it is not in your nature,” was the reply.

^{page 119 note a} Mary of Modena arrived in England at the beginning of December, having been delayed at Paris by a slight illness.

^{page 119 note b} Justin Macarty, distinguished as a Jacobite general in the war in Ireland, and created Viscount Mountcashel by James II., in 1689. He was a son of Donogh, Earl of Clanearty.

^{page 199 note c} Charles, afterwards second Earl of Macclesfield.

^{page 120 note a} Sir Robert Viner, Bart.

^{page 120 note b} Sir John Robinson, Bart., formerly Lord Mayor, now an alderman.

^{page 121 note a} Colonel Sir Thomas Armstrong, concerned in the Rye House plot. He fled to Holland; but was given up by the magistrates of Lcyden, brought back to England, and executed in 1684. He was one of the Duke of Monmouth's party. Reresby calls him the debaucher of the Duke.

^{page 122 note a} Admiral Sir John Narborough.

^{page 122 note b} Francis Seymour, fifth Duke of Somerset. He was murdered at Genoa in 1678.

^{page 122 note c} Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

^{page 122 note d} Sir William Jones; succeeded, in 1679, by Sir Cresswell Levinz.

^{page 122 note e} Hortense Mancini, niece of the Cardinal. She died in 1699, and, according to Evelyn, “is reported to have hasten'd her death by intemperate drinking strong spirits.” See Lord Macaulay's description of her in chapter iv. of his History.

^{page 123 note a} Robert Bertie, Earl of Lindsey.

^{page 123 note b} Henry, Lord Howard, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal.

^{page 123 note c} William, second Lord Maynard.

^{page 123 note d} Richard, 1st Lord Arundel of Trerice.

^{page 123 note e} Heneage Finch, Earl of Nottingham.

^{page 123 note f} Afterwards a commissioner of the Treasury.

^{page 123 note g} A vacancy had occurred, in 1675, in the representation of Dorsetshire by the death of Colonel Strangways. Lord Digby came forward as a candidate, and was at first supported by Shaftesbury. The latter, however, changed his mind and put forward a Mr. Moore in opposition. This irritated Lord Digby so much that, when he next met Shaftesbury, he accused him in violent language of sedition, and threatened to have his head next parliament. Shaftesbury brought an action, and recovered £1,000.---Christie, Life of Shaftesbury, ii. 214.

^{page 123 note h} John, Lord Digby, who succeeded, at this time, as third Earl of Bristol.

^{page 124 note a} George Strode, Serjeant-at-Law.

^{page 124 note b} Henry Pierrepont, second Earl of Kingston, created Marquess of Dorchester.

^{page 124 note c} Charles, fourth Lord Mohun, father of the notorious duellist, who himself was not undistinguished in the same way.

^{page 124 note d} William, fourth Lord Petre.

^{page 124 note e} Horatio, Lord, afterwards Viscount, Townsend.

^{page 125 note a} Only son of Sir Thomas Longueville, of Bradwell Abbey, co. Bucks., Kt. He was of the Inner Temple, and an eminent counsellor at law; and was, moreover, the patron and literary executor of the author of Hudibras. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Peyton, of Knowlton, Bart., and died 21 March, 1721, at the age of 82. He was buried in Westminster Abbey.—Chester, Westm. Abbey Registers, p. 303.

^{page 125 note b} See the next letter.

^{page 126 note a} The year is accidentally written 1667.

^{page 126 note b} Scroggs.

^{page 126 note c} Sir William Ellis, one of the judges of the Common Pleas, was dismissed soon after this to make room for Scroggs, as foretold in this letter.

^{page 127 note a} “Naked Truth, or the True State of the Primitive Church,” was published by Herbert Croft, Bishop of Hereford, in 1675. It drew an answer from Dr. Francis Turner, Master of St. John's College, Cambridge, and afterwards Bishop of Ely, viz. the “Animadversions” referred to above. Andrew Marvell'a rejoinder, which appeared in 1676, bore the title: “Mr. Smirke, or the Divine in mode, being Certain Annotations upon the Animadversions on the Naked Truth. . . . . By Andreas liivetus, junior, anagr. Res Nuda Veritas.”

^{page 127 note b} Dr. Henry Compton.

^{page 127 note c} Samuel Parker, afterwards Bishop of Oxford.

^{page 127 note d} Charles, third Lord Cornwallis.

^{page 128 note a} He should have said Sir Fopling Flutter. Etherege's comedy, “The Man of Mode, or Sir Fopling Flutter,” had lately appeared, and was very popular.

^{page 129 note a} It will be remembered that Burnet stood high in James's favour at this time.

^{page 130 note a} i. e. Chiffinch.

^{page 132 note a} Sir Robert Atkins, Judge of the Common Pleas.

^{page 133 note a} The sheriffs were John Peake and Thomas Stampe.

^{page 133 note b} John Wilmot.

^{page 133 note c} George Etherege, the dissolute wit and dramatist. He was knighted about the year 1683. The few plays that his idle nature would allow him to write brought him into notice and obtained for him some diplomatic appointments. He died resident at Ratisbon.

^{page 134 note a} Charles Talbot, 12th Earl, afterwards Duke, of Shrewsbury. He married an Italian lady.

^{page 134 note b} Christian Ludwig, Duke of Mecklenburg, married Isabelle Angelique de Montmorency-Bouteville, widow of Caspar Coligny de Chatillon.

^{page 135 note a} Sir John Maynard, King's Serjeant-at-law.

^{page 135 note b} Sir William Jones.

^{page 135 note c} Sir Francis Winnington.

^{page 135 note d} Arthur Annesley, Earl of Anglesey.

^{page 136 note a} Philip, Lord Wharton, who had served in the parliamentary army.

^{page 137 note a} Edward Reynolds; died on the 28th July. He was succeeded by Anthony Sparrow, translated from Exeter.

^{page 137 note b} There was no dean of this name in the Church at this time. Herbert Asteley was Dean of Norwich.

^{page 137 note c} Hon. John North, Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge, and Prebendary pf Westminster, and, in 1677, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He died in 1683.

^{page 137 note d} Francesco de Mello, Conde da Ponte.

^{page 138 note a} To the Queen.

^{page 138 note b} Edward Coleman, secretary to the Duchess of York; one of the victims of the Popish plot.

^{page 139 note a} Prince Rupert.

^{page 139 note b} Edward Sackville, fourth Earl of Dorset.

^{page 139 note c} John Gaspars Baptist, a native of Antwerp; settled in England and was much employed by General Lambert. After the Restoration he was engaged chiefly as a drapery painter, particularly by Lely. He died in 1691.

^{page 139 note d} I have not been able to identify these pictures among the lists of Vandyck's works. They must have passed into other hands; and the number of replicas of Vandyck's paintings is so large as to make a search almost Tain. Vertue engraved a portrait of the Earl of Dorset after a Vandyck in the possession of the Duke of Dorset.

^{page 140 note a} Peter Lely.

^{page 140 note b} Daughter of John Tufton, Earl of Thauct, and wife of Sir Samuel Grimstone, Bart.

^{page 141 note c} Near the junction of Drnry Lane and Wych Street.

^{page 141 note d} William, Earl of Craven, the stout old colonel of the Coldstream Guards who was so distinguished in early life in the German wars, and was so ready to fight William's Dutch Guards when they occupied Whitehall, in 1688. He shewed great zeal in the prevention of fires in London, and was so famous for his constant attendance at them, that it was a common saying that his horse scented a fire as soon as it broke out.—Collins, Peerage, v. 453.

^{page 141 note d} A saddler at Northampton who received letters and parcels for the Hatton family.

^{page 142 note a} John Cecil, 4th Earl of Exeter.

^{page 142 note b} Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden.

^{page 142 note c} Anna Maria, daughter of Robert Brudenel, 2nd Earl of Cardigan; the paramour of Buckingham, who killed her husband Francis, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury. Her sister Dorothy married Charles Fane, 3rd Earl of Westmoreland.

^{page 142 note d} William, Lord Cavendish, afterwards Duke of Devonshire

^{page 143 note a} Lord Mohun partially recovered, though he appears to have died from the effects of his wound about Michaelmas of this year. See Prideauœ's Letters (Camd. Soc), p. 57.

^{page 143 note b} Elizabeth, daughter of Baptist Noel, Viscount Campden, married to Charles Berkeley, created Lord Berkeley in 1689, who succeeded his father as Earl of Berkeley in 1698.

^{page 143 note c} Frances, daughter of Sir Henry Yelverton, of Easton Mauduit, co. Northampton, Bart., second wife of Christopher, Lord Hatton. She died in 1684.

^{page 143 note d} Alethea Coinpton, daughter of James, 3rd Earl of Northampton, married to Edward Hungerford (afterwards a baronet), son of the “spendthrift,” Sir Edward Hungerford, K.B. She died in 1678.

^{page 144 note a} Mary, daughter of Baptist, Viscount Campden, second wife of the Earl of Northampton.

^{page 144 note b} The celebrated antiquary. He became Garter and was knighted in April, 1677. Died 1686.

^{page 144 note c} He died on the 20th February.

^{page 145 note a} Charles Yelyerton, 14th Lord Grey of Ruthyn, son of Sir Henry Yelverton, by Susan Grey, Baroness in her own right, daughter of Charles Longueville, 12th Baron, by Susan, daughter of Charles Grey, 10th Baron. It will be remembered that Lord Grey was brother of Lady Hatton.

^{page 145 note b} Anthony Grey, 12th Earl of Kent.

^{page 147 note a} The parliament of 1677 having met after a prorogation of fifteen months, it was maintained by the country party that such prorogation, extending over a year, had in effect dissolved the parliament. In the House of Lords, Buckingham made a speech in favour of this view, and was supported by the Earls of Shaftesbury and Salisbury and Lord Wharton. All four lords were sent to the Tower. Buckingham, Salisbury, and Wharton, on making their submission, were released. Shaftesbury would not yield, and remained in custody more than a year. Echard (History of England, iii. 416) tells the anecdote that Shaftesbury had made some remarks about Buckingham's giddiness, which had reached the latter's ears. Shaftesbury, looking out of his window as Buckingham was stepping into his coach to leave the Tower, called out: “What, my Lord, are you going to leave us?” “Aye, my Lord,” was the reply, “such giddy fellows as I can never stay long in a place.”

^{page 147 note a} See above, p. 143, note °.

^{page 148 note a} Anne, daughter of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, and wife of Edward Watson, 2nd Lord Rockingham.

^{page 148 note b} Francis, Lord Brudenell, eldest son of Robert, 2nd Earl of Cardigan.

^{page 148 note c} Robert Montagu, 3rd Earl of Manchester.

^{page 148 note d} Referring to transactions with the Bishop of Ely touching the Hatton Garden property.

^{page 149 note a} Referring to a claim set up against the Crown by the Earl Marshal to the right of nominating Garter. In the present instance Dugdale was agreeable to both sides.

^{page 150 note a} Henry Cavendish, who succeeded to the title in 1676.

^{page 150 note b} Thomas Lee, Chester Herald, who declined the promotion on account of bad health.

^{page 150 note c} Sir William Hayward, of the Privy Chamber.

^{page 151 note a} Sir Richard Rainsford, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, who was turned out, in 1678, to make room for Scroggs.

^{page 152 note a} Gilbert Sheldon, died on the 9th November. He was succeeded by William Sancroft, Dean of St. Paul's, who was consecrated 27 Jan. 1678.

^{page 152 note b} Foran account of Danby's action, see Burnet, Own Time, i. 408–411.

^{page 152 note c} Ralph Montague, the ambassador to France.

^{page 152 note d} Sixth son of Thomas, first Earl of Berkshire. He was Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer. Died 1698.

^{page 154 note a} Charles, who died on the 12th December following.

^{page 154 note b} That is, the two younger daughters of the Duke of York; Princess Anne, after-wards Queen; and Isabella, a child born in 1676, who died in 1680.

^{page 155 note a} Of Shottisham, co. Norfolk, Baronet.

^{page 155 note b} Sir Gabriel Sylvius married 1st, a daughter of Charles Peliott, Baron de la Garde; and 2nd, Anne, daughter of William Howard, a son of Thomas, first Earl of Berkshire. This second marriage took place on the 13th November. The bridegroom was double the age of the bride; a difficulty in the way of the match which was smoothed by Evelyn: “I was all this week composing matters betweene old Mrs. Howard and Sir Gabriel Sylvius, upon his long and earnest addresses to Mrs. Ann her second daughter, mayd of honour to the Queene. My friend Mrs. Godolphin (who exceedingly lov'd the young lady) was most industrious in it, out of pitty to the languishing knight; so as, tho' there were greate differences in their yeares, it was at last effected.”—Diary, 11 Nov. 1677.

^{page 155 note c} Francis, son of John Roper, 3rd Lord Teynham.

^{page 155 note a} Anne, daughter of William Walker, of Bringwood, co. Hereford.

^{page 156 note a} i. e. Colonel William Ashburnham, Cofferer of the Household.

^{page 156 note b} Sancroft, who was appointed next year.

^{page 156 note c} Prideaux (Letters to Ellis, p. 54) notices the rumour that Jenkins was to go into orders for this purpose.

^{page 156 note a} Henry Compton.

^{page 157 note a} See above, p. 137, note °.

^{page 157 note b} William Owtrara, of Christ's College, Cambridge, the celebrated divine; he was a prebendary of Westminster.

^{page 157 note c} John Dolben, Bishop of Rochester, was also Dean of Westminster.

^{page 157 note a} Richard Langhorne, the lawyer, one of the unfortunate victims of the Popish plot.

^{page 158 note a} John Murray, Marquess of Atholl, Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland.

^{page 158 note b} The festival of the Sons of the Clergy, held at St. Paul's, was first instituted about 1655.

^{page 158 note c} Philip, 7th Earl of Pembroke; died in 1683.

^{page 159 note a} Anne, daughter of Henry Pierrepont, Marquess of Dorchester, and wife of John Manners, Lord Ross, afterwards 9th Earl of Rutland. She was divorced in 1668. The case was brought in the House of Lords, to give Lord Ross power to marry again, and so to form a precedent for the King's divorce from the Queen and subsequent marriage with Miss Stewart. Charles had the good sense to abandon the project.

^{page 159 note b} Richard Jones, 3rd Viscount, and 1st Earl of Ranelagh.

^{page 159 note c} Frances Howard, daughter of Theophilus, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, and wife of Sir Edward Villiers, knight marshal of the household.

^{page 159 note d} Henrietta, daughter of Laurence Hyde, afterwards Earl of Rochester.

^{page 160 note a} Edward Seymour, of Berry Pomeroy Castle. See Macaulay's character of him in the fourth chapter of his History.

^{page 161 note a} Charles, 2nd Earl of Middleton, Secretary of State under James II.

^{page 162 note a} It will be remembered that at this time the treaty of Nimeguen was in course of negotiation. The I french made difficulties about evacuating the towns which they held, when Charles, with unexpected vigour, suddenly took active measures, sent troops to Holland, and entered into a league with the Dutch. This brought matters to a crisis, and the peace was signed in August.

^{page 162 note b} Sir W. Scroggs' daughter.

^{page 163 note a} Qui s'excuse, s'accuse. He married her, the hoys notwithstanding.

^{page 164 note a} Sir Thomas Twisden and Sir William Wilde, Judges of the King's Bench.

^{page 166 note a} Sir Robert Markham sat for Newark; Sir William Ellis for Grantham.

^{page 166 note b} Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey.

^{page 166 note c} Edward Howard, Lord Morpeth, afterwards 2nd Earl of Carlisle.

^{page 167 note a} Anne, married to Thomas Lennaud, Earl of Sussex.

^{page 167 note b} Charles Fitz-Charles. See above, p. 96, note ^e. He married Bridget Osborne, but did not become a duke.

^{page 167 note c} Sister of Lord Hatton. She resided in France; and belonged to the Sisterhood of the Riles St. Thomas.

^{page 168 note a} Mary, daughter of Charles Bennet, afterwards 2nd Lord Ossulston, and wife of Ford Grey, Lord Grey of Werke. It will be remembered that this is the Lord Grey who made such a sorry figure in Monmouth's rebellion.

^{page 168 note b} Alexis Henry, Marquis de Chatillon.

^{page 168 note c} Two of the Duchess's letters to Charles II., relating to her unseemly quarrel with Montague, are in the British Museum (Harl. MS. 7,006, f. 171; Add. MS. 21,505, f. 32), and are printed by G. S. Steinman in his Memoir of Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland.

^{page 170 note a} William Ireland, a Jesuit priest, and John Grove and Thomas Pickering servants in tho Queen's Chapel, victims of the Popish plot.

^{page 170 note b} Walter, 3rd Lord Aston. Dugdale, the informer, had been his bailiff.

^{page 171 note a} See Evelyn's letter to Pepys, 12 Aug. 1689, wherein he mentions Elias Ashmole's collection of “all the antient and modern Coins of this kingdome, which were very rare, together with seyerall Medalls of our British, Saxon, and other Kings.”

^{page 171 note b} Louis de Duras, lately succeeded to his father-in-law as Earl of Feyersham.

^{page 173 note a} He sat for Northampton.

^{page 173 note b} William Bedloe, the informer.

^{page 173 note c} Edward Villiers, son of George, 4th Viscount Grandison, married Catherine, daughter of John FitzGerald, of Dromana, co. Waterford.

^{page 174 note a} He was elected for Lichfield.

^{page 174 note b} Lucy, daughter of Dr. Osbourne, and wife of Sir John Werden, Bart., of Leyland, co. Lane, secretary to the Duke of York.

^{page 174 note c} Sir N. Carew, M.P. for Gatton.

^{page 174 note d} Samuel Pepys.

^{page 174 note e} Anne, wife of Robert Montague, 3rd Earl of Manchester, and, after his death in 1682, of Charles, Earl of Halifax. She was the daughter of Sir Christopher Yelverton, Bart., of Easton Mauduit, co. Northampton, and was thus the aunt of Lady Hatton

^{page 175 note a} Robert Green, Henry Berry, and Lawrence Hill, condemned for the murder of Sir Edmond Bury Godfrey, on the evidence of Miles Prance, who, to save his own life, took to the trade of informer.

^{page 175 note b} A French lady, whose name is unknown, wife of Charles, Lord Gerard, afterwards 1st Earl of Macclesfield. She did not show the presence of mind which Nell Gwyn is said to have displayed on a like occasion in assertion of her Protestantism.

^{page 175 note c} Sir Philip Lloyd (who is more than once in these letters called Floyd), one of the Clerks of the Council.

^{page 176 note a} Edward Griffin (as he is called by Chamberlayne in the State of England) and Thomas Fortrey, Grooms of the Bedchamber of the Duke of York; and Colonel Robert Werden, his Comptroller.

^{page 178 note a} Charles Yelverton, 14th Baron, died in May.

^{page 178 note b} Henry Powle, M.P. for Cirencester, Speaker in the Convention Parliament of 1689, and afterwards Master of the Rolls.

^{page 179 note a} Colonel John Birch, M.P. for Weobly.

^{page 179 note b} Members for Ailesbury.

^{page 181 note n} Lords Powis, Stafford, Petre, Arundel of Wardour, and Belasyse, imprisoned for the Popish plot.

^{page 182 note a} Serjeant William Gregory, appointed Speaker

^{page 182 note b} John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater.

^{page 183 note a} Joseph Henshaw, died 9th March, 1679.

^{page 183 note b} The design to create him Marquess of Caermarthen was entertained at this time, but was abandoned. He obtained the title under William, in 1689.

^{page 183 note c} Essex, not Arlington.

^{page 187 note a} They were accused of supplying information to the French respecting the English navy. Moreover, Pepys was suspected of popery. See his correspondence of this period.

^{page 188 note a} Thomas White or Whitebread, Provincial of the Jesuits in England; lately executed.

^{page 188 note b} Langhorne was respited for a short time that he might make a return of the Jesuits' property in England. His information was not so full as had been expected; he was therefore executed.

^{page 188 note c} Francis Aungier, Earl of Longford.

^{page 190 note a} Perhaps on a visit to Shene Abbey, Henry Brouncker's house, which afterwards became his own, as Evelyn tells us, in his Diary,.24 March, 1688: “I went with Sir Charles Littleton to Sheene, an house and estate given 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 souldier.”

^{page 191 note a} Sir Allen Apsley, an old Cavalier. Falconer to the king, and almoner to the Duke of York.

^{page 191 note b} Arthur Annesley, Earl of Anglesey.

^{page 192 note a} Chief Justice Scroggs. His favour at Court at this moment was due to his conduct in the trial of Sir George Wakeman, the Queen's physician, which took place in July.

^{page 192 note b} Edmund Dickenson, John Micklethwaite, Sir Caspar Needham, Richard Lower, and Henry Yerbury.

^{page 193 note a} Christian Leslie, second daughter of John, Duke of Rothes, and wife of James Graham, third Marquis of Montrose. Her sister was Margaret, Countess of Rothes, who married Charles Hamilton, fifth Earl of Haddington.

^{page 194 note a} Sir George Jeffreys, afterwards the Lord Chancellor of infamous memory.

^{page 194 note b} Chamberlain of the city, a violent Exclusionist.

^{page 194 note c} Sir James Edwards.

^{page 196 note a} Scroggs.

^{page 196 note b} He no doubt means the Duchess of Portsmouth; and by the “Master of the Horse” he refers to the Duke of Richmond, her son, then a child of only seven years, for whom that office was held in commission, after the disgrace of Monmouth.

^{page 197 note a} He was deprived on the 15th October of his place as President of the Council.

^{page 197 note b} No doubt he refers to the birth of a girl to Lord Hatton, who seems to hare received repeated blessings of daughters when he hoped for sons. A letter from one of his sisters, on another occasion, announces the birth of “a very lusty garle,, which she [the mother] is very sorry for, but hopes you will forgive her!”

^{page 198 note a} William, 3rd Lord Howard of Escrick.

^{page 198 note b} To Scotland.

^{page 198 note c} Jeffreys.

^{page 199 note a} Captain Cheeke, Lieutenant Governor of the Tower.

^{page 199 note b} i. e. Thomas Dangerfield.

^{page 200 note a} Colonel James Hallshall, one of the King's cupbearers.

^{page 200 note b} Roderick Mansel. He published a Narrative of the Meal Tub plot, in 1680.

^{page 200 note c} Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Somerset, Marquess of Worcester, and wife of William Herbert, Earl of Powis.

^{page 201 note a} Sir Caspar, or Jasper, Needham.

^{page 201 note b} M. P. for Middlesex. He was mixed up in the Meal Tuh plot; and, from being a violent opponent of the Court, was accused of making overtures to the Duke of York. He was, in consequence, expelled the House in December, 1680.

^{page 202 note a} Erroneously dated '78.

^{page 202 note b} Elizabeth Cellier.

^{page 203 note a} The Earl of Radnor.

^{page 203 note b} One of the Middlesex magistrates who had to investigate the Meal Tub plot.

^{page 203 note c} 17th November.

^{page 203 note d} The King's Head tavern, at the bottom of Chancery Lane, the head-quarters of the King's Head Clnb, afterwards called the Green Ribbon Club, from the colour of its badge.-See North's Examen, 572.

^{page 204 note a} Thomas Belasyse, Viscount Falconberg.

^{page 206 note a} Lord Gerard had been lately advanced to the title of Macclesfield.

^{page 207 note a} Nicholas Tufton, the third Earl.

^{page 207 note b} Jane Seymour, daughter of William, 2nd Duke of Somerset, and wife of Charles Boyle, Lord Clifford, eldest son of Bichard, 2nd Earl of Cork, and 1st Earl of Burlington. She died on the 23rd November, and was buried in “Westminster Abbey.-Chester, Westminster Abbey Registers, 198.

^{page 207 note c} John Hervey of Ickworth, ancestor of tlie Bristol family.

^{page 207 note d} Sir Robert Clayton.

^{page 207 note e} Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon.

^{page 207 note f} Gilbert Holies, 3rd Earl of Clare.

^{page 207 note g} Ford, Lord Grey of Werke.

^{page 207 note h} Henry, 4th Lord Herbert of Chirbury.

Charles North, Lord North and Grey of Eolleston.

^{page 210 note a} Sir Philip Lloyd, Clerk of the Council.

^{page 210 note b} Luttrell, in his diary, under date of December 1679, thus notices the affair: “The beginning of this month the two cheif justices, the Lord Shaftsbury, Huntington, Gray, and others dined with the lord mayor, where they drank very plentifully; and some words were spoke about the acquittall of Sir George Wakeman, which occasioned much heat, Scrogs taking it as a reflexion on him.”

^{page 210 note c} “The History of the Turkish Empire from 1623 to 1627.” By Sir Paul Eycaut. London, 1680, 4to.

^{page 210 note d} “The Grand Question concerning the Bishops' right to vote in Parliament in cases capital, stated and argued from the Parliament Bolls and the history of former times, with an enquiry into their peerage and the three estates in Parliament.” London, 1680. 8vo. The question arose out of the bishops voting on Danby's impeachment. See Burnet's History, i. 460, 463.

^{page 210 note e} “Letter of a Gentleman to his Friend, showing that the Bishops are not judges in Parliament, in Capital Cases.” By Lord Denziel Holies. London, 1679, 8vo.

^{page 211 note a} “An exact and faithful Narrative of the Horrid Conspiracy of Thomas Knox, William Osborne, and John Lane, to invalidate the Testimonies of Titus Oates, and W. Bedlow, by charging them with a malicious Contrivance against the E. of Danby,” &c. London, 1680, fol.

^{page 211 note b} Nathanael Reading was tried on the 16th April, 1679, for attempting to tamper with Bedlow. He was sentenced to a fine of £1,000, and to the pillory.

^{page 211 note c} Miscellanea, by a Person of Honour. London, 1680, 8vo.

^{page 211 note d} Henry Somerset, afterwards Duke of Beaufort.

^{page 212 note a} Sir Francis North, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas; afterwards Lord Keeper and Lord Guilford.

^{page 213 note a} In the government of Scotland.

^{page 214 note a} John Gadbury, one of the chief witnesses in the Meal Tub plot.

^{page 214 note b} Comptroller of the Navy.

^{page 214 note e} Thomas Hayter became assistant-comptroller.

^{page 214 note d} John Brisbain.

^{page 215 note a} Of Fiskerton, co. Lincoln, Bart., M.P. for Northallerton.

^{page 215 note b} Francis, son of Sir Job Charlton, of Ludford, co. Hereford, Bart.

^{page 215 note c} Harry Ireton, who married a daughter of Henry Powle, of the House of Commons.

^{page 216 note a} “Thomas Hobbesii Vita Carmen.” London, 1679, 4to. An edition in English was published this year.

^{page 218 note a} This lady's spelling is sometimes consistent. Petition appears as “pettion” more than once.

^{page 218 note b} This word has proved too much for the writer. She first wrote posting, which she then rejected in favour of poising.

^{page 218 note c} She means Madame de Soissons; Olympie Mancini, widow of Eugene Maurice de Savoie, Comte de Soissons, and the mother of the famous Prince Eugene. Her sister, the Madam de Bullion of the letter, was Marie Anne Mancini, married to Godefroi de la Tour, Due de Bouillon. They were both accused in the scare which followed the Brinvilliers and Voison poisonings. Olympie fled, and, according to Saint Simon, was suspected afterwards of poisoning the young Queen of Spain. Her sister was acquitted.

^{page 219 note a} François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, Marechal Due de Luxembourg.

^{page 219 note b} Thomas Thynne, of Longleat, M.P. for Wilts, a follower of Monmouth. He was murdered in 1682 by assassins hired by Count Coningsmark.

^{page 220 note a} Henry Mildmay, M.P. for Essex.

^{page 220 note b} “The Answer of Sir William Scroggs, K^t, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, to the Articles of Dr. Titus Oates and Mr. William Bedlow.”

^{page 220 note c} This recalls Jeffreys' drunken prank, as told by Eeresby, how he and the Lord Treasurer Rochester “stripped in to their shirts, and had not accident prevented would have got upon a sign-post to drink the King's health.” The articles presented by Oates and Bedloe do not contain the charge specified above; but one item states, “That the Lord Chief Justice is very much addicted to swearing and cursing in his common discourse and to drink to excess,” a charge which was probably true enough in all particulars.

^{page 221 note a} Nathaniel Dorrell, Lyttelton's major.

^{page 221 note b} Edward Harris.

^{page 221 note c} Edward Vaughan, one of the commissioners of the Admiralty, was succeeded by Sir Thomas Lyttelton.

^{page 222 note a} Sir R. Southwell.

^{page 222 note b} M.P. for Middlesex.

^{page 222 note c} Sir George Hewett, of Pishobury, co. Herts, Bart.; afterwards created Viscount Hewett.

^{page 222 note d} Lord William Cavendish, afterwards Duke of Devonshire.

^{page 222 note e} Charles, Lord Mordaunt, afterwards 3rd Earl of Peterborough.

^{page 223 note a} Afterwards George I. of England. He was at this time in his twentieth year; and married, two years later, the unhappy Sophia Dorothea of Zelle.

^{page 224 note a} Anthony Grey, 11th Earl of Kent.

^{page 224 note b} Heneage Finch, Solicitor-General.

^{page 224 note c} He succeeded on Nottingham's death in 1682.

^{page 224 note d} The late Attorney-General.

^{page 226 note a} Sir John Laneere, Governor of Jersey.

^{page 226 note b} At this time lieut.-colonel of Lyttelton's regiment. These removes did not take place.

^{page 226 note c} This appointment was made.

^{page 227 note a} John Fell, better know as the active Dean of Christ Church; became Bishop of Oxford in 1676, and died in 1686.

^{page 227 note b} Dr. Richard Allestree, who died in 1681.

^{page 229 note a} Charles, Lord Grey of Euthyn, who had died of smallpox in 1679.

^{page 230 note a} Lady Hatton's two young brothers: Henry Yelverton, now become, by the death of his elder brother, Lord Grey of Ruthyn, afterwards Viscount Longueville; and Christopher.

^{page 232 note a} Richard, Lord Lumley, afterwards Earl of Scarborough.

^{page 232 note b} Sir Palmes Fairborne, Governor of Tangier, was killed in the siege this year.

^{page 233 note a} He remained Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, on his present appointment, till 1682.

^{page 233 note b} The Earl of Ossory had just died.

^{page 233 note c} Lord Arlington.

^{page 233 note d} Apparently formerly an attache to the embassy in Spain and resident at Tangier.

“A good ingenious man, but do talk a little too much of his trayels,” says Pepys.

^{page 235 note a} “Dr. [Isaac] Barrow, late bishop of St. Asaph in Wales writt this epitaph and desired it might be fixed on his grave: ‘Exnvise Isaaci Sancti Asaphi Episcopi in manum Dei deposits, in spem lsetse resurrectionis per Christi sola merita. O vos intrantes in domum Domini, orate pro conservo vestro, ut inveniam misericordiam in die Domini.’ This is much talk'd off for its tendency to popery.”—Luttrell, i. 52.

^{page 235 note b} James Touchet, Earl of Castlehaven.

^{page 236 note a} Charles Howard, Earl of Carlisle, Goyernor of Jamaica.

^{page 236 note b} “Malice Defeated, or a brief Relation of the Accusation and Deliverance of Elizabeth Cellier, wherein her Proceedings, both before and during her confinement, are particularly related, and the Mystery of the Meal Tub fully discovered,” &c. She was tried, on the 11th of this month, for libel in publishing this paper, was found guilty, and was fined 1,000l. and pilloried.

^{page 236 note c} James Cecil, 3rd Earl of Salisbury. Lyttelton seems to be referring to the Treasurership.

^{page 237 note a} Arlington.

^{page 237 note b} Torn away.

^{page 238 note a} Slingsby Bethell and Henry Cornish.

^{page 238 note b} Richard Goodenough; who afterwards changed sides, and was one of the witnesses against Cornish in his trial in 1685.

^{page 239 note a} James remained in Scotland till March 1682.

^{page 239 note b} Anne, daughter of. Robert Montague, 3rd Earl of Manchester. She married George Howard, Earl of Suffolk.

^{page 240 note a} The Spanish Pryar, or the Double Discovery; a tragicomedy by John Dryden, founded on a novel called “The Pilgrim,” by S. Bremond.

^{page 240 note b} Henry Cavendish, Earl of Ogle, eldest son of Henry, 2nd Duke of Newcastle. He married Elizabeth, only surviving child of Joceline Percy, 11th Earl of Northumberland. After his death she was contracted, if not married, to Thomas Thynne, of Longleat, who was murdered in 1682. She afterwards married Charles Seymour, Duke of Somerset.

^{page 240 note c} Evelyn, in his Diary, mentions the “new fever” as the cause of death of Mrs. Godolphin, 8 Sept. 1678.

^{page 240 note d} Lionel Tollemache, Lord Huntingtower, afterwards Earl of Dysart, married Grace, daughter of Sir Thomas Wilbraham. Bart., of Woodhey. Richard Newport, afterwards Earl of Bradford, married her sister Mary.

^{page 241 note a} Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, and widow of Joceline, Earl of Northumberland; here styled young to distinguish her from the Earl's mother, who was still living

^{page 241 note b} William Howard, Earl of Stafford; beheaded on the 29th December. “Lord Stafford was not a man belov'd, especially of his own family,” is Evelyn's remark. All the peers who were his relatives, except the Earl of Arundel, found him guilty.

^{page 242 note a} In the forces maintained in Guernsey.

^{page 243 note a} The Exclusion Bill was before them.