[Footnote 10:  The Palatines, who were mostly Lutherans, came over to England in great numbers in May and June of 1709.  So large was the immigration that the House of Commons, on April 14th, 1711, passed a resolution declaring that the inviting and bringing over of the Palatines “at the public expense, was an extravagant and unreasonable charge to the kingdom, and a scandalous misapplication of the public money.”  Whoever advised it, said the resolution, “was an enemy to the Queen and this kingdom.” [T.S.]]

[Footnote 11:  A Committee, appointed January 13th, 1710/1, reported in April, 1711, that accounts for L35,302,107 18_s._ 9-5/8_d._(sic) had not been passed.  On February 21st, 1711/2, the auditors presented a statement which showed that of these accounts (which went back to 1681), L6,133,571 had then been passed, and that a considerable portion of the remainder was waiting for technicalities only.  On June 11th, 1713, it was reported that L24,624,436 had been either passed or “adjusted.”  See “Journals of House of Commons,” xvi., xvii. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 12:  Virgil, “Aeneid,” i. 135.  “Whom I—­but first this uproar must be quelled.”—­R.  KENNEDY. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 13:  Tacitus, “Agricola,” 9. (Tacitus wrote “Haud semper,” etc.) “An opinion not founded upon any suggestions of his own, but upon his being thought equal to the station.  Common fame does not always err, sometimes it even directs a choice” ("Oxford Translation” revised). [T.S.]]

[Footnote 14:  Harley, who was created Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, May 23rd, 1711, and Sir Simon Harcourt, made Baron Harcourt, September 3rd, 1711. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 15:  Sir Henry Furnese (1658-1712), Bart.  He obtained his baronetcy June 18th, 1707, and was the first to receive that dignity since the Union.  He sat in the House as Member for Bramber and Sandwich, and was twice expelled.  He was, however, re-elected for Sandwich and represented that constituency until his death on November 30th, 1712.

The variety of ways in which his name has been spelt is quite remarkable.  In the “Calendar of State Papers” for 1691 and 1692, the name is given as Furness, Furnese, and Furnes.  The “Journals of the House of Commons,” recording his expulsion, speaks of him as Furnesse.  When he was knighted (October 11th, 1691), the “Gazette” of October 19th printed it Furnace, and when he was made a baronet, the same journal had it Furnese.  In the official “Return of Names of Members,” the name is given successively as, Furnace, Furnac, Furnice, Furnise, Furness and Furnese. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 16:  Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester, second son of the first Earl of Clarendon (see No. 27, ante, p. 170).  He undertook the defence of his father when the latter was impeached by the House of Commons, October 30th, 1667, on a charge of high treason. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 17:  Virgil, “Aeneid,” vi. 648-9.