[381]. Maddock’s Life of Somers, p. 34.

[382]. Swift.

[383]. Four Last Years, p. 7.

[384]. Cooksey’s Life of Somers.

[385]. Ibid.

[386]. Private Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 148.

[387]. Private Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 149.

[388]. Halifax was called “Mouse Montague,” from the circumstance of Lord Dorset’s presenting him to William the Third as a Mouse.—Granger’s Biography.

[389]. Private Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 153.

[390]. See Dedication to the fourth volume of Tatler.