[1] Burnet's "History," iv. 552, edition 1823.
[2] _Sic_ in original, but probably Tanner.
[3] Rawlinson's Bodleian MSS., vol. ii., lett. 38.
[4] I refer the reader to "Curiosities of Literature," vol. ii. art.
"Of Suppressors and Dilapidators of Manuscripts;" he will there find
that in the case of the Marquis of Halifax' Diary, of which to secure
its preservation the writer had left two copies, both were silently
destroyed by two opposite partisans, the one startled at some mean
deceptions of the Revolutionists of 1688, and the other at the
Catholic intrigues of the court.