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[ Ibid.]
21 ([return])
[ I have followed what seems to me the most probable story. But it has been doubted whether Nottingham was invited to be Chancellor, or only to be First Commissioner of the Great Seal. Compare Burnet ii. 3., and Boyer's History of William, 1702. Narcissus Luttrell repeatedly, and even as late as the close of 1692, speaks of Nottingham as likely to be Chancellor.]
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[ Roger North relates an amusing story about Shaftesbury's embarrassments.]
23 ([return])
[ London Gazette March 4. 1688/9]
24 ([return])
[ Burnet ii. 5.]