[104] The authorities for most of what follows are The Historical MSS. Commission, Ninth Report, Part II., p. 58; MSS. of the House of Lords, 30th April, 5th May, and 3rd June, 1675, 14th March, 16th June, and 9th July, 1678, and Burke's Extinct and Dormant Peerages.

[105] MSS. of the House of Lords, 228, 30th April, 1675.

[106] MSS. of the House of Lords, 228, 30th April, 1675.

[107] Absalom and Achitophel, line 447, seq.