[159] Covel’s Diaries, p. 195.
[160] Life of Dudley North, p. 111; Rycaut’s Memoirs, pp. 327-8.
[161] Life of Dudley North, pp. 112-13, 116.
[162] Finch to Coventry, Sept. 9, 1675; Life of Dudley North, p. 113; Covel’s Diaries, pp. 272-3.
[163] “New Articles added to the Capitulations Renewed by Sr John Finch Knt, and Deliver’d to His Excellcy by the Hands of the Gran Vizir In Adrianople, September the 8-18th 1675,” Coventry Papers.
[164] Finch to Coventry, Sept. 9, 1675. The Rev. John mentions this dialogue as taking place at the banquet of July 27. See Diaries, p. 263.
[165] Finch to Coventry, Sept. 9, 1675. Seeing that Sir John did not arrive at Adrianople till May 10, it is a little hard to understand how he arrives at his “Five Moneths and some dayes.” Dudley North also speaks of “our tedious Attendance at Adrianople,” as having lasted “near five Months,” Life, p. 113. No doubt, to them the time seemed longer than it was.
[166] See [Appendix XI].
[167] Finch to Coventry, Oct. 6-16, 1675.
[168] The Same to the Same, Oct. 6-16, 1675. Cp. Covel’s Diaries, p. 274.