Note 223 — Chapter XV · ON THE REIGN OF WILLIAM III.
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Bishop Fleetwood, in a sermon, preached in 1703, says of William, "whom all the world of friends and enemies know how to value, except a few English wretches." Kennet, 840. Boyer, in his History of the Reign of Queen Anne, p. 12, says that the king spent most of his private fortune, computed at no less than two millions, in the service of the English nation. I should be glad to have found this vouched by better authority.