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Footnote 1: [ (return) ] The present Borough of Pontefract was incorporated by Richard III., and has sent Members to Parliament since the reign of James I.
Footnote 2: [ (return) ] Dugdale Bar. vol. i p. 99.
Footnote 3: [ (return) ] This tradition is moulded into a pleasing tale entitled "the White Rose in Mull," in the Scottish Annual, the Chameleon, noticed by us a few weeks since.
Footnote 4: [ (return) ] Shakspeare lays Scene v. of Act. v. of Richard II. in a dungeon of Pomfret Castle.
Footnote 5: [ (return) ] In our last we erroneously stated the whole of this building as the work of Messrs. Lee, for £9,214.; only part of the carcase, containing the Hall, Library, &c. being contracted for by those builders for the above sum. Other contracts have since been made for the completion of the building; of these, the principal is with Messrs. Baker and Son (the builders of the King's library and new galleries of the British Museum, &c.) who have executed the beautiful finishings of the interior: these contracts amount to upwards of £12,000.
Other contracts have been made with the above parties for the erection of the Club House, and Dining Rooms, &c., situate in Bell Yard, which is an addition subsequently made to the original building.
Footnote 6: [ (return) ] The best remains of Ionic buildings at Athens are the temples of Erecthens and Minerva Pulias in the Acropolis, and the little temple on the banks of the Ilissus; but in Asia Minor the examples of this order are far more numerous; and some of the finest are to be found amongst the magnificent ruins at Brauchidia, at Priene, and at Teos, &c.
Footnote 7: [ (return) ] And father of Madame Junot.
Footnote 8: [ (return) ] The agent for the MIRROR, in Paris.—ED. M.
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