[106:1] There is a copy in the library of the Athenaeum, London:  “A Relation of Three Embassies from his sacred Majestie Charles II. to the Great Duke of Muscovie, the King of Sweden, and the King of Denmark.  Performed by the Right Ho^ble the Earle of Carlisle in the Years 1663 and 1664.  Written by an Attendant on the Embassies, and published with his Lordship’s approbation.  London.  Printed for John Starkie at the Miter in Fleet Street, near Temple Barr, 1669.”

[109:1] “I have mentioned the dignity of his manners....  He was at his very best on occasion of Durbars, investitures, and the like....  It irritated him to see men giggling or jeering instead of acting their parts properly.”—­Life of Lord Dufferin, vol. ii. p. 317.

[116:1] Hist.  MSS.  Com., Portland Papers, vol. iii. p. 296.

[116:2] See above, vol. iii. p. 294.

[118:1] Sir Walter Besant doubted this.  See his London.

[123:1] Mr. Goldwin Smith says this was the first pitched battle between Protection and Free Trade in England.—­The United Kingdom, vol. ii. p. 25.

[126:1] Being curious to discover whether no “property” man raised his voice against these measures, I turned to that true “home of lost causes,” the Protests of the House of Lords; and there, sure enough, I found one solitary peer, Henry Carey, Earl of Dover, entering his dissent to both Bills—­to the Judicature Bill because of the unlimited power given to the judges, to the Rebuilding Bill because of the exorbitant powers entrusted to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen to give away or dispose of the property of landlords.

[128:1] Clarendon’s Life, vol. iii. p. 796.

[129:1] Clarendon’s Life, vol. iii. p. 798.

[129:2] “Instructions to a Painter for the drawing of the Posture and Progress of His Majesty’s forces at Sea under the command of His Highness Royal:  together with the Battel and Victory obtained over the Dutch, June 3, 1665.”—­Waller’s Works, 1730, p. 161.

[130:1] Sir John Denham’s wife was reported to have been poisoned by a dish of chocolate, at the bidding of the Duchess of York.

[131:1] Clarendon’s eldest son.

[139:1] It is disconcerting to find Evelyn recording this, his last visit to Clarendon, in his Diary under date of the 9th December, by which time the late Chancellor was in Rouen.  One likes notes in a diary to be made contemporaneously and not “written-up” afterwards.  Evelyn makes the same kind of mistake about Cromwell’s funeral, misdating it a month.

[140:1] The duke died in 1670 and had a magnificent funeral on the 30th of April.  See Hist.  MSS.  Com., Duke of Portland’s Papers, vol. iii. p. 314.  His laundress-Duchess did not long survive him.

[141:1] Afterwards Lord Dartmouth, a great friend of James the Second, but one who played a dubious part at the Revolution.

[145:1] The poet Waller was one of the wittiest speakers the House of Commons has ever known.