[129:2] “Instructions to a Painter for the drawing of the Posture and Progress of His Majesty’s forces at Sea under the command of His Highness Royal: together with the Battel and Victory obtained over the Dutch, June 3, 1665.”—Waller’s Works, 1730, p. 161.
[130:1] Sir John Denham’s wife was reported to have been poisoned by a dish of chocolate, at the bidding of the Duchess of York.
[131:1] Clarendon’s eldest son.
[139:1] It is disconcerting to find Evelyn recording this, his last visit to Clarendon, in his Diary under date of the 9th December, by which time the late Chancellor was in Rouen. One likes notes in a diary to be made contemporaneously and not “written-up” afterwards. Evelyn makes the same kind of mistake about Cromwell’s funeral, misdating it a month.
[140:1] The duke died in 1670 and had a magnificent funeral on the 30th of April. See Hist. MSS. Com., Duke of Portland’s Papers, vol. iii. p. 314. His laundress-Duchess did not long survive him.
[141:1] Afterwards Lord Dartmouth, a great friend of James the Second, but one who played a dubious part at the Revolution.
[145:1] The poet Waller was one of the wittiest speakers the House of Commons has ever known.
[148:1] For a full account of this remarkable case, see Clarendon’s Life, iii. 733-9.
[149:1] “Provided, etc., that neither this Act nor anything therein contained shall extend to invalidate or avoid his Majesty’s supremacy in ecclesiastical affairs [or to destroy any of his Majesty’s rights powers or prerogatives belonging to the Imperial Crown of this realm or at any time exercised by himself or any of his predecessors Kings or Queens of England] but that his Majesty his heirs and successors may from time to time and at all times hereafter exercise and enjoy all such powers and authorities aforesaid as fully and amply as himself or any of his predecessors have or might have done the same anything in this Act (or any other law statute or usage to the contrary) notwithstanding.” The words in brackets were rejected by the Commons. See Parliamentary History, iv. 446-7.
[150:1] Madame’s business is now well known. The secret Treaty of Dover was the result of this visit.