[211] Professor Sir William Ramsay, K.C.B., F.R.S., etc., in his _Presidential Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science_, Portsmouth, 1911. [212] _Autobiography of the Countess of Warwick_ (Percy Society). [213] _Autobiography._ [214] Lady Ranelagh to Robert Boyle, Birch’s ed. _Works_. [215] _Autobiography of the Countess of Warwick._ [216] Edward Phillips’s account. [217] Richard Jones was not at any college. [218] Peter du Moulin, Royalist and Episcopalian, had been private tutor to the second Earl of Cork’s family in Ireland. He translated the _Devil of Mascon_, a French story of authenticated spirit-rapping, published in 1658, with an introductory letter by Robert Boyle, to whom it was dedicated; and in 1670 du Moulin dedicated a volume of Latin poems to Boyle. He was the author of the _Regii Sanguinis Clamor_. His brother, on the other hand—Lewis du Moulin, Doctor of Physic—was a Parliamentarian and Independent, and, after the Visitation, was Camden Professor of History at Oxford. [219] Name given by Boyle to that “hopeful young gentleman,” Mr. Richard Jones, to whom Boyle addressed his _Physiological Essays_, etc. [220] Passport granted in September 1656. See Masson’s _Milton_, vol. v. Her eldest daughter, Catherine, was possibly then already married and already in Ireland. She married (1) Sir William Parsons, (2) Lord Mount-Alexander. The two other daughters, Elizabeth and Frances, were with their mother (see later). [221] Milton’s letters to Mr. Richard Jones. See Masson’s _Milton_, vol. v. [222] Evelyn’s letter to Wotton, 1703. [223] Mrs. Evelyn was the daughter of Sir Richard Browne, English Ambassador at Paris, where Evelyn married her. [224] See later. Evelyn’s _Diary_ and letters. [225] We still say “you and yours,” though not “yours” alone. [226] David Masson. _Life of Milton_, vol. v, p. 358. [227] Lord Ranelagh. [228] Letter to Lord Broghill, Thurloe’s _State Papers_. [229] Birch’s Ed. _Works_, vol. vi. [230] Birch’s Ed. _Works_, vol. vi. [231] “Virile government” was apparently assailed in 1659 as it is to-day. [232] There were nine editions between 1660 and 1708, and it was translated into Latin. [233] Evelyn’s _Diary_, May 5, and May 25, 1659. [234] He was one of the chief of the “Dynastic” or “Court” Cromwellians, in opposition to the “Army” Cromwellians. [235] Morrice; but Pepys mentions “Mr. Boyle” receiving a passport on April 11, and on board Montagu’s ship, where he was treated as “a person of honour,” on April 20. [236] Evelyn. [237] See Pepys’s graphic account of the crossing of Charles II from The Hague, and Evelyn’s account of his reception in London. [238] Petty’s invention of a “double-bottomed boat,” which made a great talk at the time. [239] _Discourses Useful for the Vain Modish Ladies and their Gallants._ 1696.