[B] MS. Public Record Office, in course of being calendared by Mrs. M. A. E. Green. [C] From MSS. Badminton. [D] From MSS. Badminton. [E] From MSS. Badminton. [F] On the 10th of October, 1667, his son occupied his place, as Marquis of Worcester. [G] From MSS. Badminton. [H] This is a holograph letter, from MSS. Badminton. [I] Cal. State Papers, Dom. Series. Ch. II. 1667. No. 101. [J] Appendix G. [K] Cal. State Papers, Dom. Series. Ch. II. 1667. No. 33. [L] See page 271 and 273. [M] Duchy of Cornwall Office. Report H. 1.1665–8. (April, 1668.) See Appendix G. [N] It is very similar to the Draft, page 224; and the “Definition” in Appendix C. [14] Boyle, Vol. v. page 532. [O] I am the more particular in naming these facts, as it is singular that there should be any doubt thrown on the place of his sepulture. Yet in a copy of “The Baronage of England, by William Dugdale,” containing his own manuscript corrections, he substitutes for “Ragland,” to read “Windsor, near to the tomb of Charles of Worcester his ancestor.” This copy is in the Bodleian Library, and I have not only examined it very carefully, but also the Register at St. George’s Chapel, and the tombs in the Beaufort Chapel, Windsor, without being able to confirm Dugdale’s manuscript emendation.--D. [P] This had been written “wilfully malicious”--but “malicious” has been struck out, and “incredulous” substituted. This with other corrections are in the Marquis’s own handwriting. [30] Cosmo. [Q] Being this portion only of his Travels, derived from two large folio MS. volumes, narrated by the celebrated Count Lorenza Magalotti, preserved in the Laurentian Library, Florence. [R] See Sorbière’s Account, page 265. [S] Her being there 3½ years _after_ the decease of the Marquis, makes it probable she had removed from Lambeth, or wherever she had previously resided. [T] See Appendix D. [U] She afterwards married Donough O’Kearney, and died 26th July, 1681. [V] Appendix G. [W] Duchy of Cornwall Office. See Index to Reports--1660–1684. A. to P. 1. And Report H. 1. 1665–8. And Appendix G. [78] Pepys. [X] Macaulay’s Essays. CHAPTER XVIII. A BRIEF RETROSPECT OF THE MARQUIS OF WORCESTER’s GENEALOGY, AND HIS PRIVATE, POLITICAL, AND PHILOSOPHICAL CHARACTER; INCLUDING HIS OWN STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURE DURING THE CIVIL WAR. The ancient and Honourable family of Somerset is descended from John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, son of Edward the Third.