Note 90 — Chapter XLV · ROBARTES AND BERKELEY, 1669-1672

Marvell’s letter of March 21, 1670. Berkeley’s instructions are in Cox’s Hibernia Anglicana, Charles II., ii. 9. As to Leighton, see Burnet’s Own Times, i. 137, and Foxcroft’s Supplement, p. 13. In a note to his edition of Burnet, Mr. Airy says he is ‘not aware of a single word extant in his favour.’ North’s Examen, iii. chap. vi. 89—‘being secretary in Ireland he extorted most outrageously and being expostulated with for it, answered, "What a pox, d’ye think I come here to learn your language?"’