lished by Act of Parliament, it is now
proposed that, for every 150L per annum, secured for 150 years, for but
one hundred yearly payments of 100L per annum, free from all manner of
taxes and deductions whatsoever, every such freeholder shall receive
4000L in the said current credit, and shall have 2000L more put into
the fishery stock for his proper benefit; and there may be further
2000L reserved at the Parliament's disposal towards the carrying on this
present war..... The free holder is never to quit the possession of his
said estate unless the yearly rent happens to be in arrear."]

[Footnote 521: Commons' Journals, Feb. 5. 1693/4.]

[Footnote 522: Account of the Intended Bank of England, 1694.]

[Footnote 523: See the Lords' Journals of April 23, 24, 25. 1694, and
the letter of L'Hermitage to the States General dated April 24/May 4]

[Footnote 524: Narcissus Luttrell's. Diary, June 1694.]

[Footnote 525: Heath's Account of the Worshipful Company of Grocers;
Francis's History of the Bank of England.]

[Footnote 526: Spectator, No. 3.]

[Footnote 527: Proceedings of the Wednesday Club in Friday Street.]

[Footnote 528: Lords' Journals, April 25. 1694; London Gazette, May 7.
1694.]

[Footnote 529: Life of James ii. 520.; Floyd's (Lloyd's) Account in the
Nairne Papers, under the date of May 1. 1694; London Gazette, April 26.
30. 1694.]

[Footnote 530: London Gazette, May 3. 1694.]

[Footnote 531: London Gazette, April 30. May 7. 1694; Shrewsbury to
William, May 11/21; William to Shrewsbury, May 22? June 1; L'Hermitage,
April 27/Nay 7]

[Footnote 532: L'Hermitage, May 15/25. After mentioning the various
reports, he says, "De tous ces divers projets qu'on s'imagine aucun
n'est venu a la cognoissance du public." This is important; for it has
often been said, in excuse for Marlborough, that he communicated to the
Court of Saint Germains only what was the talk of all the coffeehouses,
and must have been known without his instrumentality.]

[Footnote 533: London Gazette, June 14. 18. 1694; Paris Gazette June
16/July 3; Burchett; Journal of Lord Caermarthen; Baden, June 15/25;
L'Hermitage, June 15/25. 19/29]

[Footnote 534: Shrewsbury to William, June 15/25. 1694. William to
Shrewsbury, July 1; Shrewsbury to William, June 22/July 2]

[Footnote 535: This account of Russell's expedition to the Mediterranean
I have taken chiefly from Burchett.]

[Footnote 536: Letter to Trenchard, 1694.]

[Footnote 537: Bur