FOOTNOTES:

[208] Sir Peter Wyche to Lord Conway, Constantinople, July 26/Aug. 5, 1628, S.P. Turkey, 14. The occasion for this apophthegm was supplied by another predatory Pasha of Aleppo.

[209] Finch to Coventry, March 1-11, April 12-22, May 14-24, 1678, Coventry Papers.

[210] Life of Dudley North, pp. 60-1, 107.

[211] Finch to Coventry, March 1-11, May 14-24, 1678.

[212] “I doe not find it easy to arrive to a true knowledge of them; For things passe here under Great Taciturnity.”—Finch to Williamson, May 31, 1676, S.P. Turkey, 19. “The New’s of this Court (which would to God Christendome could imitate) is secrecy.”—The Same to Coventry, June 20-30, 1676; “Things are so secretly transacted at this Court that there is no certainty to be had.”—The Same to the Same, March 9-19, 1677-78, Coventry Papers.

[213] Finch to Coventry, Jan. 19-29, March 1-11, 9-19, April 12-22, Sept. 2-12, 1678.

[214] The Same to the Same, Nov. 29, S.V. 1677.

[215] The Same to the Same, March 2-12, 9-19, 16-26, 1678.

[216] The Same to the Same, March 9-19; 16-26, 1677-78.

[217] The Same to the Same, April 12-22, 1678.

[218] The Same to the Same, May 14-24, 1678, and inclosures: Two Orders from Finch to the English Consuls of Smyrna and Aleppo (in Italian), dated April 20-30 and May 2-12; and two from Nointel to the French Consuls of the same places (in French), dated May 1 and 9.

[219] The Same to the Same, June 20-30; Sept. 2-12, 1678.

[220] The Same to the Same, Sept. 2-12, 1678.