^{page vi note 1} S. P., Dom., Ch. II., August 6, 1666.

^{page vi note 2} Ibid. May 21, 1668.

^{page vi note 3} Ibid.

^{page vi note 4} Ibid. July 18, 1668.

^{page vi note 5} Ibid. July. 22, 1668.

^{page vi note 6} Ibid. April 21, 1670.

^{page vii note 1} Letters of Sir J. Williamson, i. 10.

^{page vii note 2} S. P., France, December 30, 1673.

^{page viii note 1} Montagu-Arlington Correspondence, February 6, 1677, p. 523.

^{page viii note 2} See p. 120.

^{page ix note 1} Mignet, Négociations relatives à la Succession d'Espagne sous Louis XIV, iii. 23.

^{page ix note 2} State Papers, France, May 1, 1669.

^{page ix note 3} Ibid. April 17, 1669.

^{page x note 1} State Papers, France, May 11, 1669.

^{page x note 2} Ibid. Sept. 24, 1669.

^{page x note 3} Ibid. June 26, 1669.

^{page x note 4} Ibid.

^{page x note 5} Ibid. Feb. 1, 1670.

^{page xi note 1} State Papers, France, New Year's Day, 1670.

^{page xi note 2} Mignet, iii. 199.

^{page xi note 3} S. P., France, , 1670.

^{page xi note 4} Mignet, iii. 221.

^{page xi note 5} S. P., France, August 23, 1670.

^{page xii note 1} S. P., France, Oct. 1, 1670.

^{page xii note 2} Ibid. Sept. 24, 1670.

^{page xii note 3} Mignet, iii. 225.

^{page xii note 4} S. P., France, Oct. 4, 1670.

^{page xii note 5} Ibid. Oct. 1, 1670.

^{page xii note 6} Mignet, iii. 240.

^{page xiii note 1} S. P., France, November , 1670.

^{page xiii note 2} Mignet, iii. 241.

^{page xiii note 3} Ibid. iii. 284.

^{page xiii note 4} S. P., France, April 11, 1671.

^{page xiii note 5} Ibid. July 25, 1671.

^{page xiv note 1} Mignet, iii. 633.

^{page xiv note 2} Ibid. iii. 633.

^{page xiv note 3} S. P., France, December 24, 1671.

^{page xiv note 4} Ibid. February, 1672.

^{page xv note 1} S. P., France, December 19, 1671.

^{page xv note 2} Ibid. December 26, 1671.

^{page xv note 3} Ibid. January 2, 1672.

^{page xv note 4} Ibid. April 23, 1672.

^{page xvi note 1} Mignet, iii. 703.

^{page xvi note 2} S. P., France, August 6, 1672.

^{page xvi note 3} Ibid. August 14, 1672.

^{page xvi note 4} Ibid. August 5, 1673.

^{page xvi note 5} Ibid. August 30, 1673.

^{page xvii note 1} S. P., France, October 7, 1673.

^{page xvii note 2} Ibid. October 18, 1673.

^{page xvii note 3} Ibid.

^{page xvii note 4} Mignet, iv. 141.

^{page xviii note 1} Mignet, iv. 147.

^{page xix note 1} For the result of recent exhaustive researches on this subject among the State Papers and criminal archives in Paris see Revue Hebdomadaire, December 1898 to January 1899, and an article in the Athenœum, February 4, 1899.