Coxe, p. 59. Footnote 214: Lediard, vol. i. p. 105. Footnote 215: Conduct, p. 42. Footnote 216: Conduct, p. 43. Footnote 217: Notes to Grammont, vol. ii. p. 324. Footnote 218: Granger and Grammont, from Coles’s State Papers. Footnote 219: She was the daughter of Sir Matthew Boynton, and sister-in-law to the famous Earl of Roscommon. Footnote 220: Notes to Grammont, vol. ii. p. 328. Footnote 221: Lediard, p. 111. Footnote 222: Ibid. Footnote 223: Other Side of the Question, p. 70. Footnote 224: Coxe, vol. i. p. 63. Footnote 225: Lediard, p. 111. Footnote 226: Coxe, vol. i. p. 61. Footnote 227: Other Side of the Question, p. 48. Footnote 228: Conduct, p. 42. Footnote 229: See Appendix, No. IV., for the rest of this letter, and for others upon the same subject. Footnote 230: Conduct. Footnote 231: Conduct, p. 48. See Appendix V. for Queen Mary’s two letters to Lady Churchill. Footnote 232: Other Side of the Question, p. 75. Footnote 233: Conduct, p. 55. See Appendix. Footnote 234: Whitehall, partly rebuilt by James I., who found it in a ruinous state, comprehended within its walls, although unfinished, different suites of rooms, in which the various members of the royal family, their several retinues, the great officers of state, and in the times of Charles the Second and James, the female favourites of those monarchs who could sanction their pretensions.—_Pennant’s London_, v. i. p. 191. Footnote 235: Conduct, p. 58. See Appendix VI. Footnote 236: Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Somerset, daughter and sole heiress of Joceline Percy, Earl of Northumberland. This lady had been affianced to Henry Cavendish, Earl of Ogle, only son of Henry Duke of Newcastle, but his early death, in 1680, prevented the completion of the nuptials. The Duchess afterwards supplanted the Duchess of Marlborough in the confidence of Queen Anne.—_Granger_, vol. iii. p. 437. Footnote 237: Charles Seymour, commonly called the proud Duke of Somerset. Footnote 238: It may here be observed, that probably this firmness and propriety of conduct on the part of the Duke and Duchess of Somerset laid the foundation of that partiality which Anne evinced towards them, to the prejudice, as it proved, of her earlier friends. The Duchess, or, as the Duchess of Marlborough was wont to call her, “the great lady,” was an avowed opponent of the Tory party, and became in after life a most influential, as well as a most active friend to Whig principles. Footnote 239: Notes to Berwick’s Memoirs, vol. i. p. 424. Footnote 240: Conduct. Footnote 241: Tindal, vol. xvi. p. 517. Footnote 242: Dalrymple’s Memoirs. Footnote 243: Notes to Berwick’s Memoirs, p. 426. Footnote 244: