FN 715 Hopton Haynes’s Brief Memoires; Lansdowne MSS. 801.; the Old Postmaster, July 4. 1696; the Postman May 30., July 4 , September 12. 19., October 8,; L’Hermitage’s despatches of this summer and autumn, passim.

FN 716 Paris Gazette, Aug. 11. 1696.

FN 717 On the 7th of August L’Hermitage remarked for the first time that money seemed to be more abundant.

FN 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.

FN 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. 3o. 1696.

FN 720 L’Hermitage, June 12/22., July 7/17. 1696.

FN 721 See the Answer to Grascombe, entitled Reflections on a
Scandalous Libel.

FN 722 Paris Gazette, Sept. 15. 1696,

FN 723 L’Hermitage, Oct. 2/12 1696.

FN 724 L’Hermitage, July 20/30., Oct. 2/12 9/10 1696.

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

FN 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

FN 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.

FN 728 London Gazette; Narcissus Luttrell; L’Hermitage, June 12/22; Postman, June 11.

FN 729 Life of William iii. 1703; Vernon’s evidence given in his place in the House of Commons, Nov. 16. 1696.

FN 730 William to Shrewsbury from Loo, Sept. 10. 1696.

FN 731 Shrewsbury to William, Sept. 18. 1696.

FN 732 William to Shrewsbury, Sept. 25. 1696.

FN 733 London Gazette, Oct. 8. 1696; Vernon to Shrewsbury,
October 8.  Shrewsbury to Portland, Oct. 11.

FN 734 Vernon to Shrewsbury, Oct. 13. 1696; Somers to Shrewsbury,
Oct. 15.