tres curieuses, 1692; Wagenaar; London
Gazette, Jan. 29. 1693; Burnet, ii. 71]

[Footnote 2: The names of these two great scholars are associated in a
very interesting letter of Bentley to Graevius, dated April 29. 1698.
"Sciunt omnes qui me norunt, et si vitam mihi Deus O.M. prorogaverit,
scient etiam posteri, ut te et ton panu Spanhemium, geminos hujus
aevi Dioscuros, lucida literarum sidera, semper praedicaverim, semper
veneratus sim."]

[Footnote 3: Relation de la Voyage de Sa Majeste Britannique en Hollande
1692; London Gazette, Feb. 2. 1691,; Le Triomphe Royal ou l'on voit
descrits les Arcs de Triomphe, Pyramides, Tableaux et Devises an Nombre
de 65, erigez a la Haye a l'hounneur de Guillaume Trois, 1692; Le
Carnaval de la Haye, 1691. This last work is a savage pasquinade on
William.]

[Footnote 4: London Gazette, Feb. 5. 1693; His Majesty's Speech to the
Assembly of the States General of the United Provinces at the Hague the
7th of February N.S., together with the Answer of their High and Mighty
Lordships, as both are extracted out of the Register of the Resolutions
of the States General, 1691.]

[Footnote 5: Relation de la Voyage de Sa Majeste Britannique en
Hollande; Burnet, ii. 72.; London Gazette, Feb. 12. 19. 23. 1690/1;
Memoires du Comte de Dohna; William Fuller's Memoirs.]

[Footnote 6: Wagenaar, lxii.; Le Carnaval de la Haye, Mars 1691; Le
Tabouret des Electeurs, April 1691; Ceremonial de ce qui s'est passe
a la Haye entre le Roi Guillaume et les Electeurs de Baviere et de
Brandebourg. This last tract is a MS. presented to the British Museum by
George IV,]

[Footnote 7: London Gazette, Feb. 23. 1691.]

[Footnote 8: The secret article by which the Duke of Savoy bound himself
to grant toleration to the Waldenses is in Dumont's collection. It was
signed Feb. 8, 1691.]

[Footnote 9: London Gazette from March 26. to April 13. 1691; Monthly
Mercuries of March and April; William's Letters to Heinsius of March
18. and 29., April 7. 9.; Dangeau's Memoirs; The Siege of Mons, a
tragi-comedy, 1691. In this drama the clergy, who are in the interest of
France, persuade the burghers to deliver up the town. This treason calls
forth an indignant exclamation,

"Oh priestcraft, shopcraft, how do ye effeminate
The minds of men!"]

[Footnote 10: Trial of Preston in the Collection of State Trials. A
person who was present gives the following account of Somers's opening
speech: "In the opening the evide