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the nation in all foreign treaties, and that he wasthe principal adviser of dividing the fleet in June 1 666 .

NOTE [B], p. i;6.

TT H E abstract of the report of the Brook-houfe-com-mittee ( so that committee was called ) was first pu blislied byMr. Ralph, vol. i. p. 177. from lord Hallifax’s collec-tions, to which I refer. If we peruse their apology,which we find in the subsequent page of the same author,we shall find, that they acted with some malignity to-wards the king. They would take notice of no servicesperformed before the ist of September 1664. But allthe king’s preparations preceded that date, and as chan-cellor Clarendon told the parliament, amounted to eighthundred thousand pounds-, and the computation is veryprobable. This sum , therefore , must be added. Thecommittee likewise charged seven hundred thousandpounds to the king on account of the winter and summerguards , saved during two years and ten months thatthe war lasted. But this seems iniquitous. For though thatwas an usual burthen on the revenue , which was thensaved; would not the diminution of the customs duringthe war be an equivalent to it ? Besides , near threehundred and forty thousand pounds are charged forprize-money , which perhaps the king thought he oughtnot to account for. These sums exceed the million anda half.

NOTE [C], p. i 4 *.

(jOURVILLE has said in his memoirs, vol. ii. p.14. S-. that Charles was never sincere in the triplealliance ; and that, having entertained a violent animo-sity against de Wit, he endeavoured, by this artifice,to detach him from the French alliance with- a view ofVol. XI. £ e