162 ([return])
[ London Gazette, May 5, and 17, 1680.]
163 ([return])
[ There is a very curious, and, I should think, unique collection of these papers in the British Museum.]
164 ([return])
[ For example, there is not a word in the Gazette about the important parliamentary proceedings of November, 1685, or about the trial and acquittal of the Seven Bishops.]
165 ([return])
[ Roger North's Life of Dr. John North. On the subject of newsletters, see the Examen, 133.]
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[ I take this opportunity of expressing my warm gratitude to the family of my dear and honoured friend sir James Mackintosh for confiding to me the materials collected by him at a time when he meditated a work similar to that which I have undertaken. I have never seen, and I do not believe that there anywhere exists, within the same compass, so noble a collection of extracts from public and private archives The judgment with which sir James in great masses of the rudest ore of history, selected what was valuable, and rejected what was worthless, can be fully appreciated only by one who has toiled after him in the same mine.]