FOOTNOTES
[Footnote 1]: "Tandem triumphans" was the motto emblazoned on Charles Edward's banner during the march into England. "Nunquam triumphans" was afterwards a password between Jacobites.
[Footnote 2]: The remarkable name of one of the royal yachts of George II.
[Footnote 3]: Inaugurated 1724.
[Footnote 4]: At this period most of the houses in Kensington-square had large gardens at the back. Those on the west side, where I Fordingbridge's is supposed to be situated, covered what known as Scarsdale-place.
[Footnote 5]: A tipstaff, or executor of warrants for the Government.
[Footnote 6]: Governor of the Bastille from 1718 to 1749, and father of the last governor of that prison, Le Marquis Bernard Réné Jourdan de Launey, who was brutally murdered by the populace on the fall of the Bastille in 1789.
[Footnote 7]: Latude's successful escape was made some years after the date of this narrative--viz., in 1750.
[Footnote 8]: As happened the next year, by the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.
[Footnote 9]: The ballets in which the French kings, and Louis XIV in particular, frequently danced, were more in the style of a minuet than anything else. There is a picture in the Luxembourg of one being performed, with Louis taking part in it and representing Le Printemps.
[Footnote 10]: A derisive name sometimes applied to the Bastille, especially by the lower classes in Paris.