Court of Requests, instituted under Henry VII. for the recovery of small debts and superseded by the County Courts in 1847.
Covelong and Chingleput, between Madras and Pondicherry.
Craggs. Secretary of State: a man of ability and character, probably innocent in the South Sea affair.
Crevelt, near Cleves, in West Prussia; Minden is in Westphalia.
Cumberland... single victory, at Culloden, over the young Pretender’s forces, in 1745.
Cutler, St. John, a wealthy London merchant (1608?-1693) whose permanent avarice outshone his occasional benefactions (see Pope, Moral Essays, iii. 315).
DAGOBERTS... Charles Martel, nominal and real rulers of France in the seventh and eighth centuries.
D’Aguesseau, a famous French jurist, law reformer, and magistrate (1668-1751).
D’Alembert, a mathematician and philosopher who helped to sow the seeds of the French Revolution. Macaulay quite misrepresents Walpole’s attitude to him (see letter of 6th Nov. 1768).
Damien, the attempted assassinator of Louis XV. in 1757.