FOOTNOTES:

[230] Finch to Coventry, June 17-27, 1679.

[231] Ibid.

[232] The Same to the Same, March 4-14, 1679-80.

[233] The Same to the Same, Jan. 3-13, 1679-80.

[234] The Same to the Same, Dec. 12-22, 1679.

[235] The Same to the Same, March 1-11, 1679-80.

[236] The Same to the Same, Dec. 12-22, 1679.

[237] The Same to the Same, June 17-27, 1679. For details about the treatment of the Princes of Moldavia and Wallachia see Hammer, vol xii. p. 41.

[238] Un diable incarné is the French Ambassador’s verdict, supported by a great many counts which are absent from Sir John’s indictment. See Vandal’s Nointel, pp. 225, foll.

[239] Let one example suffice for many. In 1620 Sir Thomas Roe tersely described the Grand Vizir of his day as “the veriest villaine that ever lived.” Negotiations, p. 61.

[240] Rycaut to Coventry, April 18, 1677, Coventry Papers. The Same to Williamson, same date; the Same to the King (undated), S.P. Turkey, 19.

[241] Diaries, p. 282.

[242] Baines to Covel, in Finch and Baines, p. 70.

[243] Finch to Coventry, Dec. 12-22, 1679.

[244] The Same to the Same, March 1-11, 1679-80.