This consideration made me very well pleased at the Prince of Orange's undertaking to rescue us from such slavery."] [Footnote 271: Grammont's Memoirs; Pepys's Diary, Feb.21.

1684/5.] [Footnote 272: It would be endless to recount all the books from which I have formed my estimate of the duchess's character.

Her own letters, her own vindication, and the replies which it called forth, have been my chief materials.] [Footnote 273: The formal epistle which Dykvelt carried back to the States is in the Archives at the Hague.

The other letters mentioned in this paragraph are given by Dalrymple.App.to Book V.] [Footnote 274: Sunderland to William, Aug.24.

1686; William to Sunderland, Sept.