[32]. Bishop Burnet alludes to this intrigue between Marlborough and the Duchess. “The Duchess of Cleveland, finding that she had lost the king, abandoned herself to great disorders; one of which, by the artifice of the Duke of Buckingham, was discovered by the king in person.”—Hist. of his own Times, vol. i. p. 370.

[33]. Burnet, vol. i. p. 129.

[34]. Grammont, vol. ii. p. 284.

[35]. Chesterfield’s Letters, p. 136.

[36]. From 1675 to 1678. See Coxe, vol. i. 15.

[37]. Life of John Duke of Marlborough, p. 39.

[38]. See Coxe, 14, 15.

[39]. Continuation of Lord Clarendon’s Life, p. 167.

[40]. Ibid., p. 148.

[41]. Granger.