William of Orange, the best and purest statesman of the age, was the greatest of all masters in the art of dissimulation.

William, his meeting with Lamb, 499. becomes a publisher, 500.

" COMPLETION OF THE DOMESDAY BOOK A.D. 1086 CHARLES KNIGHT (When William the Conqueror had been some years established in his English realm, he found himself confronted with a feudal baronage largely composed of men who had gone with him from Normandy, where many of them had reluctantly bowed to his command.

William of Orange, who thus became king of England, was a prince of Holland.

[Illustration: WILLIAM WAS FOND OF HUNTING.]

William, now become king of England, still preserved his title of stadtholder of Holland; and presented the singular instance of a monarchy and a republic being at the same time governed by the same individual.

Sir William, 226, 420, THAT A BULLY IS ALWAYS A COWARD, 286, 440.

To me, unhappily, William was an uncouth rustic, just that and very little else; but he possessed some mysterious attraction for women; so, at any rate, Mrs. HENRY DUDENEY tells me, though she does not explain to my satisfaction what it was.

William himself is confident that he will be cashiered, a sentence which carries with it automatic and permanent exclusion from all appointments under the Crown.

FORBES, SIR WILLIAM, an eminent banker, son of a Scotch advocate and baronet, born in Edinburgh; became partner in the banking firm of Messrs. John Coutts & Co.; two years later a new company was formed, of which he rose to be manager, and which in 1830 became the Union Bank of Scotland; he is author of a Life of his friend Beattie, the Scottish poet, and of "Memoirs of a Banking-House" (1739-1806).

And, although I have thus deliberately put politics on one side, it is strictly relevant to my purpose to observe that Sir William is essentially and typically a Whig.

William the Silent was His instrument in achieving the independence of Holland.

His father was a small farmer, the father of fourteen children, of whom William was the youngest.

1783 William of Nassau becomes Grand Duke of Luxemburg.

The greatest historian of his day, William of Newburgh, was monk in a quiet little Yorkshire monastery.

William was a mechanical genius, so mother set him to making little chairs, which he readily sold, but he liked better to construct fire engines, which were quite wonderful but brought no money.

As William was Mayor in 1358 it can hardly have been less than one hundred years after his birth that both nave and spire were begun.

Death came to him very gently one day at sunset, just after he had smiled to Phineas, when his old friend, looking towards Lord Luxmore and his future bride, who were with a group of the young people, had said, "I think sometimes, John, that William and Maud will be the happiest of all the children.

William became a little contrary, because everything in the play did not suit him, and declared he would run away.

Fort William was about fifty miles south-west from Frederica.

William, are these things phantasms if they make us happy?" Fielding wrote a poem on a half-penny which a young lady had given to a beggar, and which the poet redeemed for a half-crown.

Moreover, the Dutch were inclined to act oppressively toward the Belgians, and this disposition was made the more irksome by the fact that King William was a dull, stupid, narrow and very obstinate sovereign, who thought that to have a request made of him was reason sufficient for resisting it.

"William is a noun.

"William will at times hearken to an old comrade," he said; "but it is an ill time to take him when he is hot upon the chase.

Sir William was at the time an ambassador (not, however, I believe, in the country where the incident occurred), and was on the point of taking precedence in passing from one room to another, when Byron stepped in before him.