1689.] [Footnote 313: Citters, Oct 28/Nov 7 1687.] [Footnote 314: Halstead's Succinct Genealogy of the Family of Vere, 1685; Collins's Historical Collections.

See in the Lords' Journals, and in Jones's Reports, the proceedings respecting the earldom of Oxford, in March and April 1625/6.

The exordium of the speech of Lord Chief Justice Crew is among the finest specimens of the ancient English eloquence.
Citters, Feb.

7/17 1688.] [Footnote 315: Coxe's Shrewsbury Correspondence; Mackay's Memoirs; Life of Charles Duke of Shrewsbury, 1718; Burnet, i.

762.; Birch's Life of Tillotson, where the reader will find a letter from Tillotson to Shrewsbury, which seems to me a model of serious, friendly, and gentlemanlike reproof.] [Footnote 316: The King was only Nell's Charles III.