1686/7; Evelyn's Diary, March 10 Etherege's letter to Dover is in the British Museum.] [Footnote 207: "Pare che gli animi sono inaspriti della voce che corre per il popolo, desser cacciato il detto ministro per non essere Cattolico, percio tirarsi al esterminio de' Protestanti."-- Adda, 1687.] [Footnote 208: The chief materials from which I have taken my description of the Prince of Orange will be found in Burnet's History, in Temple's and Gourville's Memoirs, in the Negotiations of the Counts of Estrades and Avaux, in Sir George Downing's Letters to Lord Chancellor Clarendon, in Wagenaar's voluminous History, in Van Kamper's Karakterkunde der Vaderlandsche Geschiedenis, and, above all, in William's own confidential correspondence, of which the Duke of Portland permitted Sir James Mackintosh to take a copy.] [Footnote 209: William was earnestly intreated by his friends, after the peace of Ryswick, to speak seriously to the French ambassador about the schemes of assassination which the Jacobites of St.Germains were constantly contriving.

The cold magnanimity with which these intimations of danger were received is singularly characteristic.

To Bentinck, who had sent from Paris very alarming intelligence, William merely replied at the end of a long letter of business,--"Pour les assasins je ne luy en ay pas voulu parler, croiant que c'etoit au desous de moy." May 2/12 1698.

I keep the original orthography, if it is to be so called.] [Footnote 210: From Windsor he wrote to Bentinck, then ambassador at Paris.

"Jay pris avant hier un cerf dans la forest avec les chains du Pr.de Denm.