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26 from the rest of his Fellow Citizens in both these Respects, seems somewhat extraordinary, and is scarce to be accounted for but by the preceding Observation.

e Alluding to his Defence of the People of England, against Salmasius. See particularly the Manner in which he himself speaks of that Undertaking, in the Introduction to his Reply to Morus.

f Edward the Third; from whom descended Henry Hastings, third Earl of Huntingdon, by the Daughter of the Duke of Clarence, Brother to Edward the Fourth.

g At Whittington, a Village on the Edge of Scarsdale in Derbyshire, the Earls of Devonshire and Danby, with the Lord Delamere, privately concerted the Plan of the Revolution. The House, in which they met, is at present a Farm-house and the Country-people distinguish the Room, where they sate, by the Name of the plotting Parlour.