[Footnote 2:  ’Thucydides ... in whom (I beleeve with many others) the Faculty of writing History is at the Highest.’  Thucydides, 1629, ’To the Readers.’]

[Footnote 3:  Philemon Holland’s Livy, 1600, ’Dedication to Elizabeth.’]

[Footnote 4:  Sir Henry Savile’s Tacitus, 1591, ‘A.B.  To the Reader.’]

[Footnote 5:  Supplement to Burnet’s History, ed.  H.C.  Foxcroft, p. 451.]

[Footnote 6:  In ’Reflections upon Several Christian Duties, Divine and Moral, by Way of Essays’, printed in A Collection of several Tracts of Edward Earl of Clarendon, 1727, pp. 80-1.]

[Footnote 7:  Letter to the Earl of Bristol, February 1, 1646 (State Papers, vol. ii, p. 334).  Davila was very well known in England—­better, it would appear, than the other three—­and was credited with being more than a mere literary model.  Clarendon says that from his account of the civil wars of France ’no question our Gamesters learned much of their play’.  Sir Philip Warwick, after remarking that Hampden was well read in history, tells us that the first time he ever saw Davila’s book it was lent to him ’under the title of Mr. Hambden’s Vade Mecum’ (Memoires, 1701, p. 240).  A translation was published by the authority of the Parliament in 1647-8.  Translations of Strada, Bentivoglio, and Grotius followed in 1650, 1654, and 1665.  Only parts of Thuanus were translated.  The size of his history was against a complete version.]

[Footnote 8:  See the Memoires of Monluc, Brantome, La Noue, &c.  The fifty-two volumes in Petitot’s incomplete series entitled Collection des Memoires relatifs a l’histoire de France jusqu’au commencement du dix-septieme siecle show at a glance the remarkable richness of French literature in the memoire at an early date.]

[Footnote 9:  La Societe francaise au XVIIe siecle, 1858 vol. i, p. 7.  The ‘key’ drawn up in 1657 is printed as an appendix.]

[Footnote 10:  Art poetique, iii. 115-18.]

[Footnote 11:  Cousin, Madame de Sable, 1854, pp. 42-8.]

[Footnote 12:  Edited by Edouard de Barthelemy in 1860 under the title La Galerie des Portraits de Mademoiselle de Montpensier.]

[Footnote 13:  Edited by Ch.  Livet, 1856 (Bibliotheque Elzevirienne. 2 vols.).]

[Footnote 14:  Sc. x, where Madelon says ’Je vous avoue que je suis furieusement pour les portraits:  je ne vois rien de si galant que cela’, and Mascarille replies, ’Les portraits sont difficiles, et demandent un esprit profond:  vous en verrez de ma maniere qui ne vous deplairont pas.’]

[Footnote 15:  Joseph Hall’s Characters of Vertues and Vices appeared in 1608 Overbury’s Characters 1614-22.  For Earle, see pp. 168-70.]

III.  Clarendon.