" says Avaux. "Slothful and sickly," says
Evelyn. March 29. 1689.]

[Footnote 61: See Harris's description of Loo, 1699.]

[Footnote 62: Every person who is well acquainted with Pope and Addison
will remember their sarcasms on this taste. Lady Mary Wortley Montague
took the other side. "Old China," she says, "is below nobody's taste,
since it has been the Duke of Argyle's, whose understanding has never
been doubted either by his friends or enemies."]

[Footnote 63: As to the works at Hampton Court, see Evelyn's Diary, July
16. 1689; the Tour through Great Britain, 1724; the British Apelles;
Horace Walpole on Modern Gardening; Burnet, ii. 2, 3.

When Evelyn was at Hampton Court, in 1662, the cartoons were not to
be seen. The Triumphs of Andrea Mantegna were then supposed to be the
finest pictures in the palace.]

[Footnote 64: Burnet, ii. 2.; Reresby's Memoirs. Ronquillo wrote
repeatedly to the same effect. For example, "Bien quisiera que el Rey
fuese mas comunicable, y se acomodase un poco mas al humor sociable
de los Ingleses, y que estubiera en Londres: pero es cierto que sus
achaques no se lo permiten." July 8/18 1689. Avaux, about the same time,
wrote thus to Croissy from Ireland: "Le Prince d'Orange est toujours a
Hampton Court, et jamais a la ville: et le peuple est fort mal satisfait
de cette maniere bizarre et retiree."]

[Footnote 65: Several of his letters to Heinsius are dated from Holland
House.]

[Footnote 66: Narcissus Luttrell's Diary; Evelyn's Diary, Feb. 25
1689/1690]

[Footnote 67: De Foe makes this excuse for William

"We blame the King that he relies too much
On strangers, Germans, Huguenots, and Dutch,
And seldom does his great affairs of state
To English counsellors communicate.
The fact might very well be answered thus,
He has too often been betrayed by us.
He must have been a madman to rely
On English gentlemen's fidelity.
The foreigners have faithfully obeyed him,
And none but Englishmen have e'er betrayed him."]
--The True Born Englishman, Part ii.]

[Footnote 68: Ronquillo had the good sense and justice to make
allowances which the English did not make. After describing, in a
despatch dated March 1/11. 1689, the lamentable state of the military
and naval establishments, he says, "De esto no tiene culpa el Principe
de Oranges; porque pensar que se han de poder volver en dos meses tres
Reynos de abaxo arriba es una extravagan