If you incline to publish the two tracts as an Appendix to the History, you will be pleased to see if the character given of the Earl of Oxford in the pamphlet of 1715 agrees with the character given of the same person in the History.

Perhaps on a review, you may think proper to leave one of them quite out.

You have (I think) barely mentioned the attempt of Guiscard, and the quarrel between Rechteren and Mesnager.

But as these are facts which are probably now forgot or unknown, it would not be amiss if they were related at large in the notes, which may be done from the Gazettes, or any other newspapers of those times," etc.

See Sir W.Scott's edit, vol xix, pp 20-21 [T.S.]] I am persuaded that foreigners, as well as those at home, who live too remote from the scene of business to be rightly informed, will not be displeased with this account of a person, who in the space of two years, hath been so highly instrumental in changing the face of affairs in Europe, and hath deserved so well of his own Prince and country.[13] [Footnote 13: See also Swift's "Enquiry" (vol.v., pp.