[282]. See Mary’s Letters to William III. Dalrymple, Appendix, p. 129.

[283]. Conduct, p. 103.

[284]. Ibid., edition 1742, p. 109.

[285]. Conduct, p. 285.

[286]. Burnet, iv. p. 149.

[287]. Lady Derby was Lady Elizabeth Butler, daughter of Thomas Earl of Ossory; married to George ninth Earl of Derby, who died in 1702, and was succeeded by James tenth Earl, who had been groom of the bedchamber to William the Third.—Burke’s Peerage.

[288]. Conduct, p. 106.

[289]. Burnet.

[290]. Conduct, p. 107.

[291]. Burnet, p. 199.