Note 100 — DEFENCE. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Barillon to Louis XIV. in Fox's Appendix, p. vii., et seq. In 1685 Halifax, who had been friendly to the rights of the colonies, was dismissed from his office; Sunderland, their enemy, had a pension from Louis XIV. of £5,000 or £6,000 a year; p. cxxvii., cxxx. et seq., cxliii., cxlviii. Not the last instance of a high functionary pensioned by a foreign hand!