ee the State Trials.]

[Footnote 163: Pepys's Diary, April 2. and May 10 1669.]

[Footnote 164: Tench's Modest and Just Apology for the East India
Company, 1690.]

[Footnote 165: Some Remarks on the Present State of the East India
Company's Affairs, 1690; Hamilton's New Account of the East Indies.]

[Footnote 166: White's Account of the East India Trade, 1691; Pierce
Butler's Tale, 1691.]

[Footnote 167: White's Account of the Trade to the East Indies, 1691;
Hamilton's New Account of the East Indies; Sir John Wyborne to Pepys
from Bombay, Jan. 7. 1688.]

[Footnote 168: London Gazette, Feb. 16/26 1684.]

[Footnote 169: Hamilton's New Account of the East Indies.]

[Footnote 170: Papillon was of course reproached with his inconsistency.
Among the pamphlets of that time is one entitled "A Treatise concerning
the East India Trade, wrote at the instance of Thomas Papillon, Esquire,
and in his House, and printed in the year 1680, and now reprinted for
the better Satisfaction of himself and others."]

[Footnote 171: Commons' Journals, June 8. 1689.]

[Footnote 172: Among the pamphlets in which Child is most fiercely
attacked are Some Remarks on the Present State of the East India
Company's Affairs, 1690; fierce Butler's Tale, 1691; and White's Account
of the Trade to the East Indies, 1691.]

[Footnote 173: Discourse concerning the East India Trade, showing it
to be unprofitable to the Kingdom, by Mr. Cary; pierce Butler's Tale,
representing the State of the Wool Case, or the East India Case truly
stated, 1691. Several petitions to the same effect will be found in the
Journals of the House of Commons.]

[Footnote 174: Reasons against establishing an East India Company with a
joint Stock, exclusive to all others, 1691.]

[Footnote 175: The engagement was printed, and has been several times
reprinted. As to Skinners' Hall, see Seymour's History of London, 1734]

[Footnote 176: London Gazette, May 11. 1691; White's Account of the East
India Trade.]

[Footnote 177: Commons' Journals, Oct. 28. 1691.]

[Footnote 178: Ibid. Oct. 29. 1691.]

[Footnote 179: Rowe, in the Biter, which was damned, and deserved to be
so, introduced an old gentleman haranguing his daughter thus: "Thou hast
been bred up like a virtuous and a sober maiden; and wouldest thou take
the part of a profane wretch who sold his stock out of the Old East
India Company?"]

[Footnote 180: Hop to the States General, Oct 30/Nov. 9 1691.]

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