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206. Sir William Temple’s Memoirs. See Boyer, App. p. 49.

207. Boyer, Appendix, p. 57.

208. Noble, vol. i. p. 61.

209. See Coxe, note, vol. i. p. 61.

211. Lediard, p. 107.

214. Lediard, vol. i. p. 105.

215. Conduct, p. 42.

216. Conduct, p. 43.

217. Notes to Grammont, vol. ii. p. 324.

218. Granger and Grammont, from Coles’s State Papers.

219. She was the daughter of Sir Matthew Boynton, and sister-in-law to the famous Earl of Roscommon.

220. Notes to Grammont, vol. ii. p. 328.

221. Lediard, p. 111.

223. Other Side of the Question, p. 70.

224. Coxe, vol. i. p. 63.

225. Lediard, p. 111.

226. Coxe, vol. i. p. 61.

227. Other Side of the Question, p. 48.

228. Conduct, p. 42.

229. See Appendix, No. IV., for the rest of this letter, and for others upon the same subject.

231. Conduct, p. 48. See Appendix V. for Queen Mary’s two letters to Lady Churchill.

232. Other Side of the Question, p. 75.

233. Conduct, p. 55. See Appendix.

234. Whitehall, partly rebuilt by James I., who found it in a ruinous state, comprehended within its walls, although unfinished, different suites of rooms, in which the various members of the royal family, their several retinues, the great officers of state, and in the times of Charles the Second and James, the female favourites of those monarchs who could sanction their pretensions.—Pennant’s London, v. i. p. 191.

235. Conduct, p. 58. See Appendix VI.

236. Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Somerset, daughter and sole heiress of Joceline Percy, Earl of Northumberland. This lady had been affianced to Henry Cavendish, Earl of Ogle, only son of Henry Duke of Newcastle, but his early death, in 1680, prevented the completion of the nuptials. The Duchess afterwards supplanted the Duchess of Marlborough in the confidence of Queen Anne.—Granger, vol. iii. p. 437.

237. Charles Seymour, commonly called the proud Duke of Somerset.

238. It may here be observed, that probably this firmness and propriety of conduct on the part of the Duke and Duchess of Somerset laid the foundation of that partiality which Anne evinced towards them, to the prejudice, as it proved, of her earlier friends. The Duchess, or, as the Duchess of Marlborough was wont to call her, “the great lady,” was an avowed opponent of the Tory party, and became in after life a most influential, as well as a most active friend to Whig principles.

239. Notes to Berwick’s Memoirs, vol. i. p. 424.

241. Tindal, vol. xvi. p. 517.

242. Dalrymple’s Memoirs.

243. Notes to Berwick’s Memoirs, p. 426.

244. Marshal Berwick, the son of James II., and the nephew of Marlborough, was twice married. His first wife was a daughter of the Earl of Clanricarde, and in 1699 he married a lady attached to the court of the exiled Queen of England, and niece of Lord Bulkley.—Memoirs of the Duke of Berwick, vol. i. p. 17.

245. Autobiography of James II., edited by Macpherson, p. 235.

247. Dalrymple, b. vii. part ii. p. 493.

248. Dalrymple, p. ii. b. vii. p. 493.

249. Russell avoided an engagement with the French fleet: he never failed entreating King James to prevent the meeting of the two fleets, assuring him that as an officer and an Englishman, he could not avoid firing on the first French ship that came in his way, even if he should see the King on the quarter-deck.—Notes to Berwick’s Memoirs.

250. Tindal, xvi. p. 531.

252. Conduct, p. 60.

253. Conduct, p. 63.

254. Conduct, p. 62.

255. Coxe, vol. i. p. 34.

256. See Appendix, VII.

258. Note in Coxe, vol. i. p. 9.

260. Life of Sarah Duchess of Marlborough, p. 41.

261. Life of Sarah Duchess of Marlborough, p. 39.

263. Coxe, vol. vi. p. 216.

264. Opinions of the Duchess of Marlborough. See Private Correspondence, Colburn, 1837, vol. ii. p. 125.

267. Coxe, vol. i. p. 69.

268. Conduct, p. 74.

269. Lord Cholmondeley, to whom the Duchess addressed her Vindication.

270. Conduct, p. 74.

271. See Horace Walpole’s Letters to Sir Horace Mann.

272. Conduct, p. 73.

273. Conduct, p. 79.

274. Conduct, p. 80.

275. Conduct, p. 18.

276. Opinions of the Duchess. Private Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 120. Colburn.

277. Conduct, p. 98, 99.

279. Conduct, pp. 98, 99.

280. Pennant, p. 171.

281. Dalrymple, b. vii. p. 508.

282. See Mary’s Letters to William III. Dalrymple, Appendix, p. 129.

283. Conduct, p. 103.

284. Ibid., edition 1742, p. 109.

285. Conduct, p. 285.

286. Burnet, iv. p. 149.

287. Lady Derby was Lady Elizabeth Butler, daughter of Thomas Earl of Ossory; married to George ninth Earl of Derby, who died in 1702, and was succeeded by James tenth Earl, who had been groom of the bedchamber to William the Third.—Burke’s Peerage.

288. Conduct, p. 106.

290. Conduct, p. 107.

291. Burnet, p. 199.

292. Swift. Last Years of Queen Anne’s Reign, p. 6.

293. Coxe, vol. i. p. 74.

294. Conduct, p. 110.

295. Conduct, p. 115.

296. Conduct, p. 111.

298. Walpole’s Reminiscences, p. 315.

299. Walpole’s Noble Authors, p. 190.

300. See Appendix, VIII.

301. Conduct, p. 114.

302. Conduct, p. 115.

303. Dalrymple, b. iv. p. 78.

304. Coxe, vol. i. p. 74.

305. Dalrymple, b. iii. p. 56.

306. Coxe. From the Shrewsbury Papers.

308. Coxe, p. 86. From the Duchess’s Narrative. Green Book.

309. Dalrymple, book v. p. 88.

310. Lediard, p. 118.

311. Conduct, p. 117.

312. Conduct, p. 119.

314. It is told of Burnet, that on the consecration of some bishops, Bishop Williams was appointed to preach the sermon at Bow Church. The clerk had twice given out the psalm, and still the bishop, detained by some accident, did not appear. Burnet was desired by the Archbishop of Canterbury to supply his place. He did so, and preached one of the best sermons he had ever been known to deliver.

315. Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, art. Rochester. See also Life of Bishop Burnet, by Thomas Burnet, Esq.

Burnet, Hist. of his own Times, vol. iv. p. 307.

316. Vol. iv. p. 207.

317. Reminiscences, p. 341.

318. Coxe, vol. i. p. 92. See Note.

319. Life of Halifax.

320. Burnet, vol. iv. p. 302.

322. Granger, vol. ii. p. 373.

323. Coxe, vol. i. p. 95.

325. Cunningham’s History of Great Britain, book iv. p. 171.

326. Granger, vol. ii. p. 46.

328. Cunningham’s History of Great Britain, book v. p. 301.

330. See Swift’s Letters.

331. Granger, vol. ii. p. 372.

332. Clutterbuck’s Hist. Hertfordshire, p. 19.

333. See Appendix VIII. The Epitaph of Lady Bridgwater.

334. Collins’s Baronage, vol. ii. p. 319.

335. Horace Walpole, Rem. p. 315.

338. Burnet, vol. iv. p. 358.

341. Dalrymple, Appendix.

342. Coxe, from Macpherson’s Hist., vol. ii. p. 130.

343. Dalrymple, b. vii. p. 132.

345. Cunningham, vol. i. p. 252.

347. Flying Post, 1702.

349. Burnet, vol. v. p. 69.

350. Marlborough’s Apotheosis, p. 11. London, 1714.

351. Reminiscences, p. 313.

352. With one exception: in her “Conduct” she seems to imply that the Duke of Marlborough had held no correspondence whatsoever with James the Second. She does not, indeed, say so; but disingenuously says, if Lord Marlborough had acted so and so. There was abundant proof of his negociations with the exiled family.

353. Such is the style of the work, entitled, “The Other Side of the Question,” and also of the “Review of a late Treatise, entitled ‘An Account of the Conduct of Sarah Duchess of Marlborough, &c.,’ in a Letter addressed to a Person of Distinction.” In this work, which was written by a nobleman, there seems to be more of invective than of fact.

354. Lord Wharncliffe’s edition of Lady Mary W. Montague’s Letters. Introduction, p. 75.

355. Review of a late Treatise, &c., p. 53.

356. Horace Walpole’s Reminiscences.

357. Conduct, p. 21.

358. Cunningham, vol. i. p. 257.

359. London Gazette.

360. Cunningham, Boyer, Dalrymple, Somerville.

361. Flying Post, or Postmaster. March 8, 1702.

362. Postboy. March 10.

363. Character of Anne by the Duchess.

364. Somerville’s Queen Anne.

366. London Courant, April 24th, 1702; Flying Post, 1702.

367. Ibid. April 23rd.

368. Daily Courant, April 15th.

369. Review of a late Treatise, &c., p. 22.

370. Cunningham, b. v. p. 259.

371. Conduct, p. 121.

374. Conduct, p. 126.

375. Mrs. Hannah More.

377. Churchill’s Annals, 1702.

378. Swift. Four Years of Anne.

379. See Bishop Watson’s Life.

380. Life and Character of John Lord Somers, by Richard Cooksey, Esq. 1791.

381. Maddock’s Life of Somers, p. 34.

383. Four Last Years, p. 7.

384. Cooksey’s Life of Somers.

386. Private Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 148.

387. Private Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 149.

388. Halifax was called “Mouse Montague,” from the circumstance of Lord Dorset’s presenting him to William the Third as a Mouse.—Granger’s Biography.

389. Private Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 153.

390. See Dedication to the fourth volume of Tatler.

391. Dedication to the Tatler.

392. Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 156.

393. Cunningham, vol. vi. p. 316.

395. Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 154.

396. Pope’s Epistle to Arbuthnot.

397. Four Last Years, p. 9.

398. Freeholder, p. 39. May 4, 1716.

399. Horace Walpole.

400. Collins’s Baronage, vol. i. p. 110.

401. In a poem, entitled “An Allusion to the Bishop of Cambray’s Supplement to Homer.”