FOOTNOTES:
[148] Biographie Universelle of Michaud, article “Monmouth.”
[149] He resided in the King’s palace, had pages, and when he travelled was everywhere received like a prince. Charles II. created him successively Earl of Orkney, Knight of the Garter, and Duke of Monmouth.
[150] Grammont says of Monmouth in his Mémoires: “His face and the graces of his person were such that Nature has perhaps never formed any more accomplished. His countenance was perfectly charming. It was the face of a man; nothing insipid, nothing effeminate about it. Every feature had its attraction and its especial delicacy. A marvellous inclination for all kinds of exercises, an engaging manner, an air of grandeur—in short, all bodily advantages pleaded in his favour; but he had no sentiment except such as was inspired by others.”
[151] Letter from Monmouth to James, dated from Ringwode, quoted by Macaulay, Histoire d’Angleterre depuis l’Avénement de Jacques II., translation of M. de Peyronnet, vol. i. p. 398.
[152] Lady Henrietta Wentworth.—Trans.
[153] Burnet, vol. i. p. 630.
[154] M. Topin’s narrative has been here condensed, as it was hardly necessary to repeat to English readers the well-known story of Monmouth’s futile enterprise, more especially as it has no kind of bearing on the point as to whether he was or was not the Man with the Iron Mask.—Trans.
[155] Original Letters of Sir H. Ellis; Newspapers of the period; Despatch of the French Ambassador Barillon, July 13, 1685.
[156] Letter of James II. to the Prince of Orange, July 14, 1685; Sir J. Bramston’s Memoirs, related by Macaulay; Burnet, vol. i. p. 644.