Note 234 — REIGN OF WILLIAM III.: 1695–1702. (continued 3)
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The father of the present Earl of Stair, Sir John Dalrymple, was born in 1726, and might have heard these particulars from his grand-uncle, the second President Dalrymple, who died in 1737. Sir John’s Memoirs of Great Britain are here followed, therefore, as the best authority available.