[161]. Probably an allusion to A. Y.’s habit of air baths.
[162]. Prefer, to set forth, propose.—Webster.
[163]. Israel Mauduit, son of a Dissenting minister; at first the same, afterwards merchant; published Considerations on the German War, 1760, &c. &c. See Chalmers’ Biog. Dict.
[164]. No note is to be found among papers concerning this visit.
[165]. Enclosure Bill. ‘At the Revolution of 1688 more than half the kingdom was believed to consist of moorland, forest, and fen, and vast commons and wastes covered the greater part of England north of the Humber. But the numerous Enclosure Bills which began with the reign of George II., and especially marked that of his successor, changed the whole face of the country. Ten thousand square miles of untilled land have been [? had been] added, under their operation, to the area of cultivation.’—Green’s History of the English People.
[166]. Abolished (saving the rights of the then holders of office) in 1812. 52 Geo. III. c. xi.
[167]. Now fourteen years old.
[168]. This passage has been crossed out with a pencil, but is given as showing the régime of young ladies’ schools a hundred years ago. In another note occurs the sentence, ‘Brought my dear little girl from Camden House to London.’ Presumably Camden Town is meant, at that time being less than suburban.
[169]. The county belle, Betsey Plampin, married some years before to Mr. Orbell Oakes.
[170]. Lady Mary Hervey, the beautiful daughter of the Earl of Bristol, Bishop of Derry. Her portrait, by Gainsborough, was on show at Agnew’s in 1896.