[104] 'Dull Dean:' Dr Zachary Pearce, Bishop of Rochester and Dean of Westminster, who rebuked Churchill for writing on players and dressing like a layman.
[105] 'Great Macpherson:' James Macpherson, translator or author of 'Ossian.'
[106] 'Malloch:' David Mallett, son of an innkeeper in Crieff, friend of Thomson's, author of a poor life of Bacon, and of one good ballad, 'William and Margaret,' editor of Bolingbroke's posthumous infidel works, under-secretary to the Prince of Wales, and a pensioner.
[107] 'North Briton:' the famous paper conducted by Wilkes.
[108] 'Lyttelton and West:' George Lord Lyttelton, author of the history of Henry II. and Gilbert West, the translator of Pindar, both originally sceptical, but both converted,—the one, the author of a Dissertation on Paul's conversion; the other, of a book on the resurrection of Christ.
[109] 'Hill,' a protégé of Lord Bute's. See a note upon 'The Rescind.'
[110] 'Home:' John Home, another of Lord Bute's protégés.
[111] 'Laureate:' William Whitehead, Laureate after C. Cibber, who had somehow provoked Churchill.
[112] 'White rose:' The emblem of the Jacobites, a white rose, was worn by them, in honour of the young Pretender's birthday, on the 10th of June.
[113] 'Choice plant:' Tobacco.