[70] Of a dark olive complexion. It has been noticed in other accounts that Katharine of Braganza's Portuguese Ladies of Honor, who came over with her, were uncommonly ill-favored, and disagreeable in their appearance. See Faithorne's curious print of the Queen in the costume here described.
[71] The Maids of Honor had a mother at least as early as the reign of Elizabeth. The office is supposed to have been abolished about the period of the Revolution of 1688.
[72] See Evelyn's "Miscellaneous Writings."
[73] Since Cardinal at Rome. "Evelyn's Note."
[74] Of Betchworth, in Surrey.
[75] By Sir William Davenant, a hotch-potch out of "Measure for Measure" and "Much Ado about Nothing."
[76] By Dryden. It was unsuccessful on the first representation, but was subsequently altered to the form in which it now appears.
[77] That is against the King.
[78] A monument to him in Deptford Church bears a most pompous inscription: "Qui fuit patriæ decus, patriæ suæ magnum munimentum;" to the effect that he had not only restored our naval affairs, but he invented that excellent and new ornament of the Navy which we call Frigate, formidable to our enemies, to us most useful and safe: he was to be esteemed, indeed, by this invention, the Noah of his age, which, like another Ark, had snatched from shipwreck our rights and our dominion of the seas.
[79] By Sir Robert Howard and Dryden.