[4] Europeans are apt to attach the idea of some particular colour to the word Creole. It is a vulgar error. Creole (Spanish, Criollo) is derived from criar, to breed or produce, and is applied to native Americans descended from 'Old World' parents. Thus there are black Creoles as well as white, and a horse or a dog may be a Creole as well as a man, so long as the European or African blood is preserved unmixed.
[5] The day and the event strangely coincide with the passage in Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell"—
"'s ist Simon und Judä
"Da rast der See und will sein Opfer haben."
[6] Marlborough to Mr Secretary Boyle, 17th December 1708. Disp. iv. 362.
[7] Disp. iv. 315, 323, 345. Marlborough to Duke de Mole, 10th Dec. 1708. Ibid. 346. Coxe, iv. 278.
[8] Marlborough to Mr Secretary Boyle, 3d January 1709, Disp. iv. 389.
[9] "'Can I do more than I do now?' said the King. 'I make treaties, but the Emperor breaks his word with me, as well as Holland, every moment. Besides it is impossible, without great inconvenience, to give more than three battalions; and he is a wretch who would advise me otherwise.' I said he was a wretch who should advise him not to do it. He replied, 'You speak very boldly, and may perhaps repent it, if your arguments are not conclusive.'"—General Grumbkow to Marlborough, March 9, 1709. Coxe, iv. 341.
[10] King of Prussia to Marlborough, March 9, 1709. Coxe, iv. 346.
[11] In communicating the thanks of the House of Lords, the Chancellor said,
"I shall not be thought to exceed my present commission, if, being thus led to contemplate the mighty things which your Grace has done for us, I cannot but conclude with acknowledging, with all gratitude, the providence of God in raising you up to be an instrument of so much good, in so critical a juncture, when it was so much wanted." Coxe, iv. 375.
[12] Coxe, iv. 352, 366, 377.