[Footnote 333: An Historical Account of the Heroic Life and Magnanimous Actions of the most illustrious Protestant Prince, James, Duke of Monmouth, 12mo. 1683. p. 99. _et sequen._] [Footnote 334: Ibid, p. 113.] [Footnote 335: Two of these, Captain Vratz and Lieutenant Stern, had distinguished themselves as brave officers; and it is remarkable that neither seemed to have a feeling of the base and dishonourable nature of their undertaking. The third, Borosky, was a poor Pole, who thought himself justified by his master's orders. There is an interesting account of their behaviour in prison, and at execution, in the Harleian Miscellany.] [Footnote 336: This circumstance is alluded to in a ballad on the occasion, which mentions Monmouth's anxiety to discover the assassins: But heaven did presently find out What, with great care, he could not do; 'Twas well he was the coach gone out, Or he might have been murdered too; For they, who did this squire kill, Would fear the blood of none to spill. From a Grub-Street broadside, entitled "Murder Unparalleled," in _Luttrel Collect._ "Captain Vratz's Ghost to Count Coningsmark," 18. March, 1681-2, by a Western Gentleman: "Who was't thus basely brought unto his end The loyal Monmouth's wealthy western friend." ] [Footnote 337: It is probable either Stern or Boroski, if not Vratz, would have justified themselves at the Count's expence, had it suited the crown to have promised them a pardon on such conditions.] [Footnote 338: The Duke of Ormond's eldest son.--See next note.] [Footnote 339: Appendix to Life of Ormond, No. XCIII.] [Footnote 340: Sir Richard Southwell. See Life of Ormond, Vol. II. p. 161.] [Footnote 341: War, and war's darling goddess, left him last; As living he adored her, he embraced Her dying, in his pangs he held her fast; Still at Tangier his waving ensigns flye, Forts, bulwarks, trenches, glide before his eye; And though, by fate itself disarmed, he dies, Even his last breath his sooty foes defies; He still his visionary thunder poured, And grasped the very shadow of a sword. These lines occur in Settle's poem, and are illustrated by this Note: "All the delirium of his fever was wholly taken up with defending Tangiers, and fighting the Moors."] [Footnote 342: See some particulars concerning this nobleman, Vol. V. p. 174.; and in the introductory observations to the "Essay on Satire."]