[7] Life of Shaftesbury, by W. D. Christie (1871), ii. 312.

[8] Macky’s Memoirs, 46; Pepys’s Diary, viii. 143.

[9] See the description of his position at this time by Sir W. Temple in Lives of Illustrious Persons (1714), 40.

[10] Add. MSS. 28094, f. 47.

[11] Boyer’s Annals (1722), 433.

[12] The title was taken, not from Leeds in Yorkshire, but from Leeds in Kent, 4½ m. from Maidstone, which in the 17th century was a more important place than its Yorkshire namesake.

[13] Memoirs of Sir John Macky (Roxburghe Club, 1895), 46.

[14] Boyer’s Annals, 219, 433.

[15] Harleian MSS. 2264, No. 239.

[16] Boyer’s Annals, 515.