discours seroient en execration en
France. Ici ils sont ordinaires parmi un certain nombre de gens du
pais."--Bonrepaux to Seignelay, May 25/June 4 1687.]

[Footnote 62: Clarke's Life of James the Second, ii, 74. 77. Orig. Mem.;
Sheridan MS.; Barillon, March 19/29 1686.]

[Footnote 63: Reresby's Memoirs; Luttrell's Diary, Feb. 2. 1685/6
Barillon, Feb. Jan. 25/Feb 4.]

[Footnote 64: Dartmouth's note on Burnet, i. 621. In a contemporary
satire it is remarked that Godolphin

"Beats time with politic head, and all approves,
Pleased with the charge of the Queen's muff and gloves."]

[Footnote 65: Pepys, Oct. 4. 1664.]

[Footnote 66: Pepys, July 1. 1663.]

[Footnote 67: See Dorset's satirical lines on her.]

[Footnote 68: The chief materials for the history of this intrigue are
the despatches of Barillon and Bonrepaux at the beginning of the year
1686. See Barillon, Jan 25./Feb 4. Feb. 1/11. Feb. 8/18. Feb. 19/29.
and Bonrepaux under the first four Dates; Evelyn's Diary, Jan. 29.;
Reresby's Memoirs; Burnet, i. 682.; Sheridan MS.; Chaillot MS.; Adda's
Despatches, Jan 22/Feb 1. and Jan 29/Feb 8 1686. Adda writes like a
pious, but weak and ignorant man. He appears to have known nothing of
James's past life.]

[Footnote 69: The meditation hears date 1685/6. Bonrepaux, in his
despatch of the same day, says, "L'intrigue avoit ete conduite par
Milord Rochester et sa femme.... Leur projet etoit de faire gouverner
le Roy d'Angleterre par la nouvelle comtesse. Ils s'etoient assures
d'elle." While Bonrepaux was writing thus, Rochester was writing as
follows: "Oh God, teach me so to number my days that I may apply my
heart unto wisdom. Teach me to number the days that I have spent in
vanity and idleness, and teach me to number those that I have spent in
sin and wickedness. Oh God, teach me to number the days of my affliction
too, and to give thanks for all that is come to me from thy hand. Teach
me likewise to number the days of this world's greatness, of which I
have so great a share; and teach me to look upon them as vanity and
vexation of spirit."]

[Footnote 70: "Je vis Milord Rochester comme il sortoit de conseil fort
chagrin; et, sur la fin du souper, il lui en echappe quelque chose."
Bonrepaux, Feb. 18/28. 1656. See also Barillon, March 1/11, 4/14.]

[Footnote 71: Barillon March 22/April 1, April 12. [22] 1686.]

[Footnote 72: London Gazette, Feb. 11. 1685/6; Luttrell's Diary, Feb.
8; Leeuwen, Feb. 9/19.;