For though that was an usual burden on the revenue, which was then saved, would not the diminution of the customs during the war be an equivalent to it?
Besides, near three hundred and forty thousand pounds are charged for prize money, which perhaps the king thought he ought not to account for.

These sums exceed the million and a half.] [Footnote 3: NOTE C, p.85.Gourville has said in his Memoirs, (vol.ii.
p.

14, 67,) that Charles was never sincere in the triple alliance; and that, having entertained a violent animosity against De Wit, he endeavored by this artifice to detach him from the French alliance, with a view of afterwards finding an opportunity to satiate his vengeance upon him.

This account, though very little honorable to the king's memory, seems probable from the events, as well as from the authority of the author.].