“Moy, je diray naivement,
Qu’une jartiere d’Angleterre
Feroit tout Mon empressement;
Et je ne vois rien sur la terre
Ou je trouve plus d’agrement.”

FN 297 William’s correspondence with Heinsius.  There is a curious account of Schoening in the Memoirs of Count Dohna.

FN 298 Burnet, ii. 84.

FN 299 Narcissus Luttrell’s Diary.

FN 300 Monthly Mercuries of January and April 1693; Burnet, ii. 84.  In the Burnet Ms. Hail. 6584, is a warm eulogy on the Elector of Bavaria.  When the Ms. was written he was allied with England against France.  In the History, which was prepared for publication when he was allied with France against England, the eulogy is omitted.

FN 301 “Nec pluribus impar.”

FN 302 Memoires de Saint Simon; Dangeau; Racine’s Letters, and Narrative entitled Relation de ce qui s’est passe au Siege de Namur; Monthly Mercury, May 1692.

FN 303 Memoires de Saint Simon; Racine to Boileau , May 21. 1692.

FN 304 Monthly Mercury for June; William to Heinsius May 26/ June 5 1692.

FN 305 William to Heinsius, May 26/June 5 1692.

FN 306 Monthly Mercuries of June and July 1692; London Gazettes of June; Gazette de Paris; Memoires de Saint Simon; Journal de Dangeau; William to Heinsius, May 30/June 9 June 2/12 June 11/21; Vernon’s Letters to Colt, printed in Tindal’s History; Racine’s Narrative, and Letters to Boileau of June 15. and 24.

FN 307 Memoires de Saint Simon.

FN 308 London Gazette, May 30. 1692; Memoires de Saint Simon;
Journal de Dangeau; Boyer’s History of William iii.

FN 309 Memoires de Saint Simon; Voltaire, Siecle de Louis XIV.  Voltaire speaks with a contempt which is probably just of the account of this affair in the Causes Celebres.  See also the Letters of Madame de Sevigne during the months of January and February 1680.  In several English lampoons Luxemburg is nicknamed Aesop, from his deformity, and called a wizard, in allusion to his dealings with La Voisin.  In one Jacobite allegory he is the necromancer Grandorsio.  In Narcissus Luttrell’s Diary for June 1692 he is called a conjuror.  I have seen two or three English caricatures of Luxemburg’s figure.

FN 310 Memoires de Saint Simon; Memoires de Villars; Racine to
Boileau, May 21. 1692.

FN 311 Narcissus Luttrell, April 28. 1692.

FN 312 London Gazette Aug. 4. 8. 11. 1692; Gazette de Paris, Aug. 9. 16.; Voltaire, Siecle de Louis XIV.; Burnet, ii. 97; Memoires de Berwick; Dykvelt’s Letter to the States General dated August 4. 1692.  See also the very interesting debate which took place in the House of Commons on Nov. 21. 1692.  An English translation of Luxemburg’s very elaborate and artful despatch will be found in the Monthly Mercury for September 1692.  The original has recently been printed in the new edition of Dangeau.  Lewis pronounced it the best despatch that he had ever seen.