FOOTNOTES:
[18] Vide King James's own account of this circumstance, in Doctor Clarke's life of that monarch.
[19] Vide the Record of the Eleventh Foot.
[20] On the 26th of May, 1718, he fought a duel in Hyde Park with sword and pistol, with Colonel Waller.
[21] London Gazette.
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Historical Records of the
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