Lismore Papers, 2nd Series, vol. iv. p. 100.
Footnote 347: Lismore Papers, 2nd Series, vol. iv. p. 99.
Footnote 348: In March 1640. This fact, and his appearance in the
Lismore Papers, are not mentioned in the Dictionary of National
Biography.
Footnote 349: Lismore Papers, 2nd Series, vol. iv. p. 113.
Footnote 350: Ibid., p. 235.
Footnote 351: Ibid., p. 234.
Footnote 352: Ibid., pp. 232-3.
Footnote 353: She became one of the mistresses of Charles II. With her
daughter, Charlotte Boyle, otherwise Fitzroy, she is buried in
Westminster Abbey. (Cockayne's Peerage, under Viscount Shannon.)
Footnote 354: Lismore Papers, 2nd Series, vol. v. pp. 19-24.
Footnote 355: Lismore Papers, 2nd Series, vol. v. pp. 72, 97, 121.
Footnote 356: Three Diatribes or Discourses, London, 1671.
Footnote 357: The Compleat Gentleman, London, 1678.
Footnote 358: The Compleat Gentleman, p. 3.
Footnote 359: Albert Babeau, Les Voyageurs en France, Paris, 1885, p.
175.
Footnote 360: M. Adrien Delahaute, Une Famille de Finance an XVIII.
Siecle, vol. i. p. 434.
Footnote 361: George Sandys, A Relation of a Journey begun in An. Dom.
1610, London, 1615.
Footnote 362: John Evelyn, Diary and Correspondence, ed. Bray, London,
1906, vol. i. p. 77.
Footnote 363: Ibid., p. 78.
Footnote 364: Balthazar Gerbier, Subsidium Peregrinantibus, Oxford,
1665.
Footnote 365: Letter to his Son, Feb. 22, 1748.
Footnote 366: Ibid., Oct. 2, O.S., 1747.
Footnote 367: Letter to his Son, Oct. 9, O.S., 1747.
Footnote 368: Lausanne was where Edward Gibbon received the education he
considered far superior to what could be had from Oxford. When he
returned to England, after four years, he missed the "elegant and
rational society" of Lausanne, and could not love London - "the noisy and
expensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without
pleasure."
Footnote 369: Letter to his Son, April 12, O.S., 1749.
Footnote 370: Ibid., Sept. 22, O.S., 1749.
Footnote 371: Ibid., Sept. 5, O.S., 1749.
Footnote 372: Letter to his Son, Nov. 8, O.S., 1750.
Footnote 373: Letter to his Son, May 10, O.S., 1748.
Footnote 374: Letter to his Son, April 30, O.S., 1750.
Footnote 375: Letters from Paris, Sept. 22, 26; Oct. 3, 6, 1765.
Footnote 376: A Character of England, As it was lately presented in a
Letter to a Noble Man of France, London, 1659.
Footnote 377: See Voltaire, Lettres Philosophiques, tome ii. p. 272,
ed. Gustave Lanson, Paris, 1909.
Footnote 378:
"The merest John Trot in a week you shall see
Bien poli, bien frize, tout a fait un Marquis."
(Samuel Foote, Dramatic Works, vol. i. p. 47.)
The Hon. James Howard, The English Mounsieur, London, 1674; Sir George
Etherege, Sir Fopling Flutter, Love in a Tub, Act III. Sc. iv.
The Abbe le Blanc on visiting England was very indignant at the
representation of his countrymen on the London stage: he describes how,
"Two actors came in, one dressed in the English manner very decently,
and the other with black eye-brows, a riband an ell long under his chin,
a big peruke immoderately powdered, and his nose all bedaubed with
snuff.
