Marshal Berwick, the son of James II., and the nephew of Marlborough, was twice married. His first wife was a daughter of the Earl of Clanricarde, and in 1699 he married a lady attached to the court of the exiled Queen of England, and niece of Lord Bulkley.—_Memoirs of the Duke of Berwick_, vol. i. p. 17. Footnote 245: Autobiography of James II., edited by Macpherson, p. 235. Footnote 246: Ibid. Footnote 247: Dalrymple, b. vii. part ii. p. 493. Footnote 248: Dalrymple, p. ii. b. vii. p. 493. Footnote 249: Russell avoided an engagement with the French fleet: he never failed entreating King James to prevent the meeting of the two fleets, assuring him that as an officer and an Englishman, he could not avoid firing on the first French ship that came in his way, even if he should see the King on the quarter-deck.—_Notes to Berwick’s Memoirs._ Footnote 250: Tindal, xvi. p. 531. Footnote 251: Dalrymple. Footnote 252: Conduct, p. 60. Footnote 253: Conduct, p. 63. Footnote 254: Conduct, p. 62. Footnote 255: Coxe, vol. i. p. 34. Footnote 256: See Appendix, VII. Footnote 257: Conduct. Footnote 258: Note in Coxe, vol. i. p. 9. Footnote 259: Coxe. Footnote 260: Life of Sarah Duchess of Marlborough, p. 41. Footnote 261: Life of Sarah Duchess of Marlborough, p. 39. Footnote 262: Burnet. Footnote 263: Coxe, vol. vi. p. 216. Footnote 264: Opinions of the Duchess of Marlborough. See Private Correspondence, Colburn, 1837, vol. ii. p. 125. Footnote 265: Ibid. Footnote 266: Burnet. Footnote 267: Coxe, vol. i. p. 69. Footnote 268: Conduct, p. 74. Footnote 269: Lord Cholmondeley, to whom the Duchess addressed her Vindication. Footnote 270: Conduct, p. 74. Footnote 271: See Horace Walpole’s Letters to Sir Horace Mann. Footnote 272: Conduct, p. 73. Footnote 273: Conduct, p. 79. Footnote 274: Conduct, p. 80. Footnote 275: Conduct, p. 18. Footnote 276: Opinions of the Duchess. Private Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 120. Colburn. Footnote 277: Conduct, p. 98, 99. Footnote 278: Ibid. Footnote 279: Conduct, pp. 98, 99. Footnote 280: Pennant, p. 171. Footnote 281: Dalrymple, b. vii. p. 508. Footnote 282: See Mary’s Letters to William III. Dalrymple, Appendix, p. 129. Footnote 283: Conduct, p. 103. Footnote 284: Ibid., edition 1742, p. 109. Footnote 285: Conduct, p. 285. Footnote 286: Burnet, iv. p. 149. Footnote 287: Lady Derby was Lady Elizabeth Butler, daughter of Thomas Earl of Ossory; married to George ninth Earl of Derby, who died in 1702, and was succeeded by James tenth Earl, who had been groom of the bedchamber to William the Third.—_Burke’s Peerage._ Footnote 288: Conduct, p. 106. Footnote 289: Burnet. Footnote 290: Conduct, p. 107. Footnote 291: Burnet, p. 199. Footnote 292: Swift. Last Years of Queen Anne’s Reign, p. 6. Footnote 293: