[3] Plaids worn by the Earl and his brother are preserved in a house in Fifeshire.
[4] This remark makes it probable that the Earl was really a young man. If born in 1693, as some thought, he would be twenty-three in 1716. (As, indeed, one of d’Alembert’s authorities says that he was.) If a year or two older, he could scarcely have pleaded youth as a reason for silence.
[5] Mar to ‘H. S.’ From France, February 10, 1716.
[6] Mr. Eliot Hodgkin’s MSS., Hist. MSS. Com. xv. ii. Appendix, p. 230.
[7] Add. MSS. 33,950. 1718-1719. British Museum.
[8] There are copies of his correspondence with the would-be murderer in the Gualterio MSS., British Museum.
[9] The author hopes to tell the story of Mr. Wogan, a charming character, on another occasion.
[10] Hist. MSS. Commission, x. i. Appendix, p. 475.
[11] Letter from Musell Stosch to d’Alembert, Œuvres, v. 457.
[12] Hist. MSS. Commission, x. i. Appendix, p. 184.