[12]. Granger, art. M. B.
[13]. Macpherson’s Hist. of Great Britain, vol. i. p. 174.
[14]. Macpherson, p. 177.
[15]. Life of James II., edited by Macpherson, vol. i. p. 73.
[16]. Hist. Brit., vol. i. p. 178.
[17]. See Archdeacon Coxe’s Life of John Duke of Marlborough, vol. i. Introduction, p. 45; also Lediard’s Life of Marlborough. For a further account of the Churchill name and lineage, see Appendix II.
[18]. See Coxe, p. 47 and 49.
[19]. See Grammont.
[20]. This early exploit was the result of a wager of Turenne’s. “I will bet a supper and a dozen of claret,” said the general, “that my handsome Englishman will recover the post with half the number of men commanded by the officer who has lost it.” The wager was accepted and won.—Lediard, vol. i.
[21]. Coxe, p. 9.