[242]. Dalrymple’s Memoirs.
[243]. Notes to Berwick’s Memoirs, p. 426.
[244]. Marshal Berwick, the son of James II., and the nephew of Marlborough, was twice married. His first wife was a daughter of the Earl of Clanricarde, and in 1699 he married a lady attached to the court of the exiled Queen of England, and niece of Lord Bulkley.—Memoirs of the Duke of Berwick, vol. i. p. 17.
[245]. Autobiography of James II., edited by Macpherson, p. 235.
[246]. Ibid.
[247]. Dalrymple, b. vii. part ii. p. 493.
[248]. Dalrymple, p. ii. b. vii. p. 493.
[249]. Russell avoided an engagement with the French fleet: he never failed entreating King James to prevent the meeting of the two fleets, assuring him that as an officer and an Englishman, he could not avoid firing on the first French ship that came in his way, even if he should see the King on the quarter-deck.—Notes to Berwick’s Memoirs.
[250]. Tindal, xvi. p. 531.
[251]. Dalrymple.