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ssss1 Les Voyages du Marquis de Nointel (1670-1680), par Albert Vandal de l’Académie Française, Paris, 1900.

ssss1 Report on the Manuscripts of Allen George Finch, Esq., of Burley-on-the-Hill, edited by Mrs. Lomas for the Historical Manuscripts Commission, vol. i., London, 1913; Finch and Baines, by Archibald Malloch, Cambridge, 1917.

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Sir John Finch. From the Portrait by Carlo Dolci at Burley-on-the-Hill FACING PAGE Sir Thomas Baines. From the Portrait by Carlo Dolci at Burley-on-the-Hill 42 Paul Rycaut. From the Engraving by R. White after the Portrait by Sir Peter Lely 53 Sultan Mahomet the Fourth, Emperor of the Turks. From an Engraving by F. H. van den Hove 106 Dr. John Covel. From the Portrait by Valentine Ritz at Christ’s College, Cambridge 372 Sir Dudley North. From an Engraving by G. Vertue, 1743 376

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It was apparently an invincible fatality that compelled Sir John Finch to accept, in the month of November 1672, the appointment of English Ambassador to the Porte, in place of Sir Daniel Harvey who had died at his post some weeks before.