[36]. ‘A child’s game, in which pins are pushed alternately.’—Webster.
[37]. Included in A Farmer’s Letters.
[38]. ‘We were married more than two years.’ [Note by A. Y.]
[39]. ‘The Mashamshire Molly,’ afterwards Countess of Harcourt.
[40]. It must be remembered that turnips were a comparative novelty at this date, not being cultivated as food for cattle till the latter part of the last century.
[41]. Nicolo Piccini, 1728-1800, composer of the opera Zénobie, &c.
[42]. Samuel Whitbread, son of a great brewer, distinguished in Parliamentary life as a vigorous assailant of Pitt; committed suicide 1815.
[43]. Entry in memorandum-book of this year: ‘The year’s receipts, 1,167l.’
[44]. Sic in author’s MS.; ‘translated’ would seem to be the word.
[45]. In a memorandum-book occurs the following entry: ‘1771.—Receipts, 697l.; expenses, 360l.—I know not how.’