e that money seemed to be more abundant.]

[Footnote 718: Compare Edmund Bohn's Letter to Carey of the 31st of July
1696 with the Paris Gazette of the same date. Bohn's description of the
state of Norfolk is coloured, no doubt, by his constitutionally gloomy
temper, and by the feeling with which he, not unnaturally, regarded
the House of Commons. His statistics are not to be trusted; and his
predictions were signally falsified. But he may be believed as to plain
facts which happened in his immediate neighbourhood.]

[Footnote 719: As to Grascombe's character, and the opinion entertained
of him by the most estimable Jacobites, see the Life of Kettlewell, part
iii., section 55. Lee the compiler of the Life of Kettlewell mentions
with just censure some of Grascombe's writings, but makes no allusion
to the worst of them, the Account of the Proceedings in the House of
Commons in relation to the Recoining of the Clipped Money, and falling
the price of Guineas. That Grascombe was the author, was proved before a
Committee of the House of Commons. See the Journals, Nov. 30. 1696.]

[Footnote 720: L'Hermitage, June 12/22., July 7/17. 1696.]

[Footnote 721: See the Answer to Grascombe, entitled Reflections on a
Scandalous Libel.]

[Footnote 722: Paris Gazette, Sept. 15. 1696,]

[Footnote 723: L'Hermitage, Oct. 2/12 1696.]

[Footnote 724: L'Hermitage, July 20/30., Oct. 2/12 9/10 1696.]

[Footnote 725: The Monthly Mercuries; Correspondence between Shrewsbury
and Galway; William to Heinsius, July 23. 30. 1696; Memoir of the
Marquess of Leganes.]

[Footnote 726: William to Heinsius, Aug 27/Sept 6, Nov 15/25 Nov. 17/27
1696; Prior to Lexington, Nov. 17/27; Villiers to Shrewsbury, Nov.
13/23]

[Footnote 727: My account of the attempt to corrupt Porter is taken from
his examination before the House of Commons on Nov. 16. 1696, and from
the following sources: Burnet, ii. 183.; L'Hermitage to the States
General, May 8/18. 12/22 1696; the Postboy, May 9.; the Postman, May 9.;
Narcissus Luttrell's Diary; London Gazette, Oct. 19. 1696.]

[Footnote 728: London Gazette; Narcissus Luttrell; L'Hermitage, June
12/22; Postman, June 11.]

[Footnote 729: Life of William III. 1703; Vernon's evidence given in his
place in the House of Commons, Nov. 16. 1696.]

[Footnote 730: William to Shrewsbury from Loo, Sept. 10. 1696.]

[Footnote 731: Shrewsbury to William, Sept. 18. 1696.]

[Footnote 732: William to Shrewsbury, Sept. 25. 1696.]