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ne 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 indi
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