FN 578 Van Citters, Feb. 14/24 1689/90; Memoir of the Earl of Chesterfield by himself; Halifax to Chesterfield, Feb. 6.;Chesterfield to Halifax, Feb 8. The editor of the letters of the second Earl of Chesterfield, not allowing for the change of style, has misplaced this correspondence by a year.
FN 579 Van Citters to the States General, Feb. 11/21 1690.
FN 580 A strange peculiarity of his constitution is mentioned in an account of him which was published a few months after his death. See the volume entitled "Lives and Characters of the most Illustrious Persons, British and Foreign, who died in the year 1712."FN 581 Monmouth's pension and the good understanding between him and the Court are mentioned in a letter from a Jacobite agent in England, which is in the Archives of the French War Office. The date is April 8/18 1690.
FN 582 The grants of land obtained by Delamere are mentioned by Narcissus Luttrell. It appears from the Treasury Letter Book of 1690 that Delamere continued to dim the government for money after his retirement. As to his general character it would not be safe to trust the representations of satirists. But his own writings, and the admissions of the divine who preached his funeral sermon, show that his temper was not the most gentle.
Clarendon remarks (Dec. 17. 1688) that a little thing sufficed to put Lord Delamere into a passion. In the poem entitled the King of Hearts, Delamere is described as--"A restless malecontent even when preferred."His countenance furnished a subject for satire:
"His boding looks a mind distracted show;And envy sits engraved upon his brow."
FN 583 My notion of Lowther's character has been chiefly formed from two papers written by himself, one of which has been printed, though I believe not published. A copy of the other is among the Mackintosh MSS. Something I have taken from contemporary satires. That Lowther was too ready to expose his life in private encounters is sufficiently proved by the fact that, when he was First Lord of the Treasury, he accepted a challenge from a custom house officer whom he had dismissed.
There was a duel; and Lowther was severely wounded. This event is mentioned in Luttrell's Diary, April 1690.
FN 584 Burnet, ii. 76.
FN 585 Roger North's Life of Guildford.
FN 586 Till some years after this time the First Lord of the Treasury was always the man of highest rank at the Board. Thus Monmouth, Delamere and Godolphin took their places according to the order of precedence in which they stood as peers.
FN 587 The dedication, however, was thought too laudatory. "The only thing," Mr. Pope used to say, "he could never forgive his philosophic master was the dedication to the Essay."--Ruffhead's Life of Pope.
FN 588 Van Citters to the States General April 25/May 5, 1690.
Narcissus Luttrell's Diary; Treasury Letter Book, Feb. 4. 1689/90FN 589 The Dialogue between a Lord Lieutenant and one of his Deputies will not be found in the collection of Warrington's writings which was published in 1694, under the sanction, as it should seem, of his family.
FN 590 Van Citters, to the States General, March 18/28 April 4/141690; Narcissus Luttrell's Diary; Burnet, ii. 72.; The Triennial Mayor, or the Rapparees, a Poem, 1691. The poet says of one of the new civic functionaries:
"Soon his pretence to conscience we can rout, And in a bloody jury find him out, Where noble Publius worried was with rogues."FN 591 Treasury Minute Book, Feb. 5. 1689/90.
FN 592 Van Citters, Feb. 11/21 Mar. 14/24 Mar. 18/28 1690.
FN 593 Van Citters, March 14/24 1690. The sermon is extant. It was preached at Bow Church before the Court of Aldermen.
FN 594 Welwood's Mercurius Reformatus, Feb. 12. 1690.
FN 595 Commons' Journals, March 20, 21, 22. 1689/89FN 596 Commons Journals, March 28. 1690, and March 1. and March 20. 1688/9FN 597 Grey's Debates, March 27. and 28 1690.
FN 598 Commons' Journals, Mar. 28. 1690. A very clear and exact account of the way in which the revenue was settled was sent by Van Citters to the States General, April 7/17 1690.
FN 599 Burnet, ii. 43.
FN 600 In a contemporary lampoon are these lines:
"Oh, happy couple! In their life There does appear no sign of strife.
They do agree so in the main, To sacrifice their souls for gain."The Female Nine, 1690.
FN 601 Swift mentions the deficiency of hospitality and magnificence in her household. Journal to Stella, August 8. 1711.
FN 602 Duchess of Marlborough's Vindication. But the Duchess was so abandoned a liar, that it is impossible to believe a word that she says, except when she accuses herself.
FN 603 See the Female Nine.
FN 604 The Duchess of Marlborough's Vindication. With that habitual inaccuracy, which, even when she has no motive for lying, makes it necessary to read every word written by her with suspicion, she creates Shrewsbury a Duke, and represents herself as calling him "Your Grace." He was not made a Duke till 1694.
FN 605 Commons' Journals, December 17 and 18 1689.
FN 606 Vindication of the Duchess of Marlborough.
FN 607 Van Citters, April 8/18 1690.
FN 608 Van Citters, April 8/18 Narcissus Luttrell's Diary.
FN 609 Lords' Journals, April 8. and 10 1690; Burnet, ii. 41.
FN 610 Van Citters, April 25/May 5 1690.
FN 611 Commons' Journals, April 8. and 9. 1690; Grey's Debates;Burnet, ii. 42. Van Citters, writing on the 8th, mentions that a great struggle in the Lower House was expected.
FN 612 Commons' Journals, April 24. 1690; Grey's Debates.