[156] 'George:' George the Second was born on the 30th of October 1683.
[157] 'Augusta:' wife of Frederic, Prince of Wales, a great friend of
Lord Bute's.
[159] 'Colonel Norborne Berkeley:' second to Lord Talbot in his duel
with Wilkes.
[160] 'First:' James the First.
[161] 'Blood was shed:' Secretary Cecil, who had been a bitter foe of Queen Mary, and became a favourite of James.
[162] 'False father:' alluding to the death of the very promising Prince Henry, popularly supposed to have been hated and removed by his father.
[163] 'Right Divine:' see, as a per contra to this fierce invective against poor 'King Jamie,' Scott's 'Fortunes of Nigel.'
[164] 'Buckingham:' George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham.
[165] 'Woman's prate:' Henrietta, the intriguing Queen of Charles the First.
[166] 'Inglorious years:' no parliament was summoned from 1628 to 1640.