[173] 'Shebbeare:' Dr John Shebbeare, a physician and notorious jacobitical writer, who, after having been pilloried for a seditious production, was pensioned by George the Third.
[174] 'Beardmore:' under sheriff.
[175] 'Guthrie:' William Guthrie, a literary hack. See Boswell. He wrote an absurd History of the Peerage.
[176] 'Atheist lord:' See note on 'Epistle to William Hogarth.'
[177] 'Service of my pen:' he designed, and partly executed, a poem
entitled 'The Curate.'
[178] 'Francis:' the Rev. Philip Francis, the translator of Horace, and
father of Sir Philip Francis.
[179] 'Cleland:' John Cleland, an infamous witling of the time.
[180] 'Blacow:' an Oxfordian, who informed against some riotous students, who were shouting out drunken Jacobitism.
[181] 'Kidgell:' Rector of Horne, the subject of the above sketch, and here ironically praised, had obtained surreptitiously a copy of Wilkes's 'Essay on Woman,' and betrayed it to the secretaries of state.