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[FOOTNOTES]
[1] Puzzles and Paradoxes, pp. 317-336, Blackwoods, 1874.
[2] Paget, p. 332.
[3] My italics. Did Fielding abandon his belief in Elizabeth?
[5] Paget, Paradoxes and Puzzles, p. 342. Blackwoods, 1874.
[6] See his Paradoxes and Puzzles, pp. 337-370, and, for good reading, see the book passim.
[7] Not only have I failed to trace the records of the Assize at which the Perrys were tried, but the newspapers of 1660 seem to contain no account of the trial (as they do in the case of the Drummer of Tedworth, 1663), and Miss E.M. Thompson, who kindly undertook the search, has not even found a ballad or broadside on 'The Campden Wonder' in the British Museum. The pamphlet of 1676 has frequently been republished, in whole or in part, as in State Trials, vol. xiv., in appendix to the case of Captain Green; which see, infra, p. 193, et seq.
[8] Really, the prosecution did not make this point: an oversight.
[9] They are in the possession of Mr. Walter Blaikie, who kindly lent them to me.
[10] Hachette, Paris, 1903. The author has made valuable additions and corrections.
[11] The Story of Kaspar Hauser from Authentic Records. Swan Sonnenschein & Co., London, 1892.
[12] Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, vol. vii. pp. 221-257.
[13] 'The True Discourse of the Late Treason,' State Papers, Scotland, Elizabeth, vol. lvi. No. 50.
[14] Burton, History of Scotland, v. 336.
[15] The story, with many new documents, is discussed at quite full length in the author's King James and the Gowrie Mystery, Longmans, 1902.
[16] I follow Incidents in My Life, Series i. ii., 1864, 1872. The Gift of Daniel Home, by Madame Douglas Home and other authorities.
[17] Home mentions this fact in a note, correcting an error of Sir David Brewster's, Incidents, ii. 48, Note 1. The Earl of Home about 1856 asked questions on the subject, and Home 'stated what my connection with the family was.' Dunglas is the second title in the family.
[18] The curious reader may consult my Cock Lane and Common Sense, and The Making of Religion, for examples of savage, mediæval, ancient Egyptian, and European cases.
[19] Incidents, ii. 105.
[20] Journal S.P.R., May 1903, pp. 77, 78.
[21] Human Personality, ii. 546, 547. By 'Ectoplastic' Mr. Myers appears to have meant small 'materialisations' exterior to the 'medium.'
[22] Journal S.P.R., July 1889, p. 101.
[23] Contemporary Review, January 1876.
[24] Contemporary Review, vol. xxvii. p. 286.
[25] Cf. Making of Religion, p. 362, 1898.
[26] Quarterly Review, 1871, pp. 342, 343.
[27] Proceedings S.P.R. vi. 98.
[28] Mr. Merrifield has reiterated his opinion that the conditions of light were adequate for his view of the object described on p. [184], supra. Journal S.P.R. October 1904.
[29] Gibbet.
[30] Fisher Unwin.
[31] The trial is in Howell's State Trials, vol. xiv. 1812. Roderick Mackenzie's account of his seizure of the 'Worcester' was discovered by the late Mr. Hill Burton, in an oak chest in the Advocates' Library, and is published in his Scottish Criminal Trials, vol. i., 1852.
[32] Narrative of Frances Shaftoe. Printed 1707.
[33] Boyer, Reign of Queen Anne.
[34] Article, 'Oglethorpe (Sir Theophilus).'
[35] Carte MSS.
[36] Macpherson, Hanoverian Papers.
[37] Carte MSS. In the Bodleian.
[38] Gualterio MSS. Add. MSS. British Museum.
[39] Wolff, Odd Bits of History (1844), pp. 1-58.
[40] The facts are taken from Ailesbury's, de Luynes', Dangeau's, and d'Argenson's Memoirs; from Boyer's History, and other printed books, and from the Newcastle, Hearne, Carte, and Gualterio MSS. in the Bodleian and the British Museum.
[41] The most recent work on d'Éon, Le Chevalier d'Éon, par Octave Homberg and Fernand Jousselin (Plon-Nourrit, Paris, 1904), is rather disappointing. The authors aver that at a recent sale they picked up many MSS. of d'Éon 'which had lain for more than a century in the back shop of an English bookseller.' No other reference as to authenticity is given, and some letters to d'Éon of supreme importance are casually cited, but are not printed. On the other hand, we have many new letters for the later period of the life of the hero. The best modern accounts are that by the Duc de Broglie, who used the French State archives and his own family papers in Le Secret du Roi (Paris, 1888), and The Strange Career of the Chevalier d'Éon (1885), by Captain J. Buchan Telfer, R.N. (Longmans, 1885), a book now out of print. The author was industrious, but not invariably happy in his translations of French originals. D'Éon himself drew up various accounts of his adventures, some of which he published. They are oddly careless in the essential matter of dates, but contain many astounding genuine documents, which lend a sort of 'doubtsome trust' to others, hardly more incredible, which cannot be verified, and are supposed by the Duc de Broglie to be 'interpolations.' Captain Buchan Telfer is less sceptical. The doubtfulness, to put it mildly, of some papers, and the pretty obvious interpolations in others, deepen the obscurity.
[42] Le Chevalier d'Éon, p. 18.
[43] Broglie, Secret du Roi, ii. 51, note.
[44] Political Register, Sept. 1767; Buchan Telfer, p. 181.
[45] One of these gives Madame de Vieux-Maison as the author of a roman à clef, Secret Memoirs of the Court of Persia, which contains an early reference to the Man in the Iron Mask (died 1703). The letter-writer avers that D'Argenson, the famous minister of Louis XV., said that the Man in the Iron Mask was really a person fort peu de chose, 'of very little account,' and that the Regent d'Orléans was of the same opinion. This corroborates my theory, that the Mask was merely the valet of a Huguenot conspirator, Roux de Marsilly, captured in England, and imprisoned because he was supposed to know some terrible secret—which he knew nothing about. See The Valet's Tragedy, Longmans, 1903.
[46] Voyage en Angleterre, 1770.
[47] The Duc de Broglie, I am privately informed, could find no clue to the mystery of Saint-Germain.
[48] An Englishman in Paris, vol. i. pp. 130-133. London 1892.