For other characters of Charles, in addition to the two by Burnet which follow, see Evelyn’s Diary, February 4, 1685; Dryden’s dedication of King Arthur, 1691; ’A Short Character of King Charles the II’ by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, Duke of Buckingham, ‘Printed from the Original Copy’ in Miscellaneous Works Written by George, late Duke of Buckingham, ed.  Tho.  Brown, vol. ii, 1705, pp. 153-60, and with Pope’s emendations in Works, 1723, vol. ii, pp. 57-65; and James Welwood’s Memoirs Of the Most Material Transactions in England, for the Last Hundred Years, Preceding the Revolution, 1700, pp. 148-53.

For Halifax himself, see No. 72.

Page 208, l. 12.  An allusion to the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns, which assumed prominence in England with the publication in 1690 of Sir William Temple’s Essay upon the Ancient and Modern Learning.  Compare Burnet, p. 223, l. 11 and note.

PAGE 209, l. 29. Ruelle.  Under Louis XIV it was the custom for ladies of fashion to receive morning visitors in their bedrooms; hence ruelle, the passage by the side of a bed, came to mean a ladies’ chamber.  Compare The Spectator, Nos. 45 and 530.

Page 211, l. 2. Tiendro cuydado, evidently an imperfect recollection of the phrase se tendra cuydado, ‘care will be taken’, ’the matter will have attention’:  compare Cortes de Madrid, 1573, Peticion 96,... ‘se tendra cuidado de proueher en ello lo que conuiniere’.

Page 212, ll. 7, 8.  Compare Pepys’s Diary, May 4, 1663:  ’meeting the King, we followed him into the Park, where Mr. Coventry and he talking of building a new yacht out of his private purse, he having some contrivance of his own’.  Also, Evelyn’s Diary, February 4, 1685:  ’a lover of the sea, and skilful in shipping; not affecting other studies, yet he had a laboratory and knew of many empirical medicines, and the easier mechanical mathematics.’  Also, Buckingham, ed. 1705, p. 155:  ’the great and almost only pleasure of Mind he seem’d addicted to, was Shipping and Sea-Affairs; which seem’d to be so much his Talent for Knowledge, as well as Inclination, that a War of that Kind, was rather an Entertainment, than any Disturbance to his Thoughts.’  Also Welwood, Memoirs, p. 151.  Also, Burnet, infra, p. 219.

Page 213, l. 10.  According to Pepys (Diary, December 8, 1666), the distinction between Charles Stuart and the King was drawn by Tom Killigrew in his remonstrance to Charles on the very ill state that matters were coming to:  ’There is a good, honest, able man, that I could name, that if your Majesty would employ, and command to see all things well executed, all things would soon be mended; and this is one Charles Stuart, who now spends his time in employing his lips about the Court, and hath no other employment; but if you would give him this employment, he were the fittest man in the world to perform it.’