rchbishop's Sermon, 1695.]

[Footnote 555: Narcissus Luttrell's Diary.]

[Footnote 556: L'Hermitage, March 1/11, 6/16 1695; London Gazette, March
7,; Tenison's Funeral Sermon; Evelyn's Diary.]

[Footnote 557: See Claude's Sermon on Mary's death.]

[Footnote 558: Prior to Lord and Lady Lexington, Jan. 14/24 1695. The
letter is among the Lexington papers, a valuable collection, and well
edited.]

[Footnote 559: Monthly Mercury for January 1695. An orator who
pronounced an eulogium on the Queen at Utrecht was so absurd as to say
that she spent her last breath in prayers for the prosperity of the
United Provinces:--"Valeant et Batavi;"--these are her last words--"sint
incolumes; sint florentes; sint beati; stet in sternum, stet immota
praeclarissima illorum civitas hospitium aliquando mihi gratissimum,
optime de me meritum." See also the orations of Peter Francius of
Amsterdam, and of John Ortwinius of Delft.]

[Footnote 560: Journal de Dangeau; Memoires de Saint Simon.]

[Footnote 561: Saint Simon; Dangeau; Monthly Mercury for January 1695.]

[Footnote 562: L'Hermitage, Jan. 1/11. 1695; Vernon to Lord Lexington
Jan. I. 4.; Portland to Lord Lexington, Jan 15/25; William to Heinsius,
Jan 22/Feb 1]

[Footnote 563: See the Commons' Journals of Feb. 11, April 12. and
April 27., and the Lords' Journals of April 8. and April is. 1695.
Unfortunately there is a hiatus in the Commons' Journal of the 12th
of April, so that it is now impossible to discover whether there was a
division on the question to agree with the amendment made by the Lords.]

[Footnote 564: L'Hermitage, April 10/20. 1695; Burnet, ii. 149.]

[Footnote 565: An Essay upon Taxes, calculated for the present Juncture
of Affairs, 1693.]

[Footnote 566: Commons' Journals, Jan. 12 Feb. 26. Mar. 6.; A Collection
of the Debates and Proceedings in Parliament in 1694 and 1695 upon the
Inquiry into the late Briberies and Corrupt Practices, 1695; L'Hermitage
to the States General, March 8/18; Van Citters, Mar. 15/25; L'Hermitage
says,

"Si par cette recherche la chambre pouvoit remedier au desordre qui
regne, elle rendroit un service tres utile et tres agreable au Roy."]

[Footnote 567: Commons' Journals, Feb. 16, 1695; Collection of the
Debates and Proceedings in Parliament in 1694 and 1695; Life of Wharton;
Burnet, ii. 144.]

[Footnote 568: Speaker Onslow's note on Burnet ii. 583.; Commons'
Journals, Mar 6, 7. 1695. The history of the terrible end of this m