[169] Compare Budgell’s and Morrice’s accounts.
[170] Bagwell’s Ireland under the Stuarts.
[171] Robert Boyle’s letter: Birch’s Ed. Works, vol. vi.
[172] Birch’s Ed. Works, vol. vi.
[173] This wife died young. The second wife was a daughter of Henry Lawrence, presumably a sister of young Barrymore’s friend and fellow-pupil at Milton’s house in the Barbican.
[174] Broghill’s letter to Lenthall, quoted by Bagwell. For the whole account of Broghill’s part in the war, see Bagwell’s Ireland under the Stuarts.
[175] Charles II was then at Breda, and so were the Scottish Commissioners. Montrose was executed in Edinburgh on May 21st, 1650, and the Treaty of Breda had been signed on May 3rd, pledging Charles to uphold the Covenant; but at this very time he was still using the Service Book, and Breda itself was the gay scene of nightly “balling and dancing.”
[176] Cary.
[177] Philaretus.
[178] The heroine of Seraphick Love.