don Gazette, May 19.
1692.]

[Footnote 267: Russell's Letter to Nottingham, May 20. 1692, in the
London Gazette of May 23.; Particulars of Another Letter from the Fleet
published by authority; Burchett; Burnet, ii. 93.; Life of James, ii.
493, 494.; Narcissus Luttrell's Diary; Memoires de Berwick. See also the
contemporary ballad on the battle one of the best specimens of English
street poetry, and the Advice to a Painter, 1692.]

[Footnote 268: See Delaval's Letter to Nottingham, dated Cherburg, May
22., in the London Gazette of May 26.]

[Footnote 269: London Gaz., May 26. 1692; Burchett's Memoirs of
Transactions at Sea; Baden to the States General, May 24/June 3; Life of
James, ii. 494; Russell's Letters in the Commons' Journals of Nov. 28.
1692; An Account of the Great Victory, 1692; Monthly Mercuries for June
and July 1692; Paris Gazette, May 28/June 7; Van Almonde's despatch
to the States General, dated May 24/June 3. 1692. The French official
account will be found in the Monthly Mercury for July. A report drawn up
by Foucault, Intendant of the province of Normandy, will be found in M.
Capefigue's Louis XIV.]

[Footnote 270: An Account of the late Great Victory, 1692; Monthly
Mercury for June; Baden to the States General, May 24/ June 3; Narcissus
Luttrell's Diary.]

[Footnote 271: London Gazette, June 2. 1692; Monthly Mercury; Baden to
the States General, June 14/24. Narcissus Luttrell's Diary.]

[Footnote 272: Narcissus Luttrell's Diary; Monthly Mercury.]

[Footnote 273: London Gazette, June 9.; Baden to the States General,
June 7/17]

[Footnote 274: Baden to the States General, June. 3/13]

[Footnote 275: Baden to the States General, May 24/June 3; Narcissus
Luttrell's Diary.]

[Footnote 276: An Account of the late Great Victory, 1692; Narcissus
Luttrell's Diary.]

[Footnote 277: Baden to the States General, June 7/17. 1692.]

[Footnote 278: Narcissus Luttrell's Diary.]

[Footnote 279: I give one short sentence as a specimen: "O fie that ever
it should be said that a clergyman have committed such durty actions!"]

[Footnote 280: Gutch, Collectanea Curiosa.]

[Footnote 281: My account of this plot is chiefly taken from Sprat's
Relation of the late Wicked Contrivance of Stephen Blackhead and Robert
Young, 1692. There are very few better narratives in the language.]

[Footnote 282: Baden to the States General, Feb. 14/24 1693.]

[Footnote 283: Postman, April 13. and 20. 1700; Postboy, April 18