FN 592 Every thing bad that was known or rumoured about Porter came out on the State Trials of 1696.

FN 593 As to Goodman see the evidence on the trial of Peter Cook; Cleverskirke, Feb 28/March 9 1696; L’Hermitage, April 10/20 1696; and a pasquinade entitled the Duchess of Cleveland’s Memorial.

FN 594 See the preamble to the Commission of 1695.

FN 595 The Commission will be found in the Minutes of the
Parliament.

FN 596 Act.  Parl.  Scot., May 21. 1695; London Gazette, May 30.

FN 597 Act.  Parl.  Scot.  May 23. 1695.

FN 598 Ibid.  June 14. 18. 20. 1695; London Gazette, June 27.

FN 599 Burnet, ii. 157.; Act.  Parl., June 10 1695.

FN 600 Act.  Parl., June 26. 1695; London Gazette, July 4.

FN 601 There is an excellent portrait of Villeroy in St. Simon’s
Memoirs.

FN 602 Some curious traits of Trumball’s character will be found in Pepys’s Tangier Diary.

FN 603 Postboy, June 13., July 9. 11., 1695; Intelligence
Domestic and Foreign, June 14.; Pacquet Boat from Holland and
Flanders, July 9.

FN 604 Vaudemont’s Despatch and William’s Answer are in the
Monthly Mercury for July 1695.

FN 605 See Saint Simon’s Memoirs and his note upon Dangeau.

FN 606 London Gazette July 22. 1695; Monthly Mercury of August, 1695.  Swift ten years later, wrote a lampoon on Cutts, so dull and so nauseously scurrilous that Ward or Gildon would have been ashamed of it, entitled the Description of a Salamander.

FN 607 London Gazette, July 29. 1695; Monthly Mercury for August 1695; Stepney to Lord Lexington, Aug. 16/26; Robert Fleming’s Character of King William, 1702.  It was in the attack of July 17/27 that Captain Shandy received the memorable wound in his groin.

FN 608 London Gazette, Aug. r. 5. 1695; Monthly Mercury of August 1695, containing the Letters of William and Dykvelt to the States General.

FN 609 Monthly Mercury for August 1695; Stepney to Lord Lexington, Aug. 16/26

FN 610 Monthly Mercury for August 1695; Letter from Paris, Aug 26/Sept 5 1695, among the Lexington Papers.

FN 611 L’Hermitage, Aug. 13/23 1695.

FN 612 London Gazette, Aug. 26. 1695; Monthly Mercury, Stepney to
Lexington, Aug. 20/30.

FN 613 Boyer’s History of King William iii, 1703; London Gazette, Aug. 29. 1695; Stepney to Lexington, Aug. 20/30.; Blathwayt to Lexington, Sept. 2.

FN 614 Postscript to the Monthly Mercury for August 1695; London
Gazette, Sept. 9.; Saint Simon; Dangeau.

FN 615 Boyer, History of King William iii, 2703; Postscript to the Monthly Mercury, Aug. 1695; London Gazette, Sept. 9. 12.; Blathwayt to Lexington, Sept. 6.; Saint Simon; Dangeau.