[199] Haydn.
[200] The South Sea Scheme, thus called.
[201] Lloyd.
[202] It was Lord Bute who granted Dr. Johnson a literary pension of £300 a year.
[203] Here are all the letters—Kaen, Caen.
[204] The inscription was as follows: ‘I, Robert Caxton, begun this place in a wild wood ... stubbed up the wood, digged all the ponds, cut all the walks, made all the gardens, built all the rooms with my own hands. Nobody drove a nail here, or laid a brick, or a tile, but myself; and ... thank God for giving me strength at sixty-four years of age, when I began it,’ etc.
[205] Edited by Colley Cibber.
[206] Mr. G. W. Potter informs me, that while a skating pond was being enlarged about seven or eight years ago, traces of this strange building were found.
[207] It was said of Murray, that he had less law than many lawyers, but more practice than any. Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, was one of his clients.
[208] Referred to in a speech, at a City banquet, by Sir Bartle Frere, July, 1874.