FOOTNOTES:
[46] O. W. Holmes.
[47] Merry-Mount is more readable than its predecessor. Such characters as Sir Christopher Gardiner and his ‘cousin,’ Thomas Morton with his hawks and his classical quotations, Esther Ludlow and Maudsley, Walford the smith, Blaxton the hermit, together with the human grotesques Peter Cakebread, Bootefish, and Canary-Bird, repay one for the trouble he takes to make their acquaintance.
[48] For a defence of the part played by the Secretary of State in this affair see John Bigelow’s paper entitled ‘Mr. Seward and Mr. Motley,’ in the ‘International Review,’ July-August, 1878.
[49] John Jay: ‘Motley’s Appeal to History,’ in the ‘International Review’ for November-December, 1877.
[50] J. R. Green.
[51] Dutch Republic, i, 162.