[51]. ‘Here are great designs on foot for uniting the Queen’s Library, the Cotton, and the Royal Society’s, together. How soon they may be put in practice time must discover.’—Sloane to Dr. Charlett, Master of University College, April, 1707.
[52]. Besides those distinctions which I have noted already, he had been requested, in 1730, by the University of Oxford, to allow his portrait to be placed in the University Gallery. In 1733 his statue, by Rysbraeck, was placed in the Botanic Garden at Chelsea.
[53]. ‘Walpole is your tyrant to-day; and any man His Majesty pleases to name—Horace or Leheup—may be so to-morrow.’—Bolingbroke to Marchmont, 22 July, 1739.
[54]. ‘Our House of Commons—mere poachers—are piddling with the torture of Leheup, who extracted so much money out of the Lottery.’—Horace Walpole to Richard Bentley, 19 December, 1753.
[55]. The term ‘Librarian,’ as used at the British Museum, has never implied any special connection with the Books, printed or manuscript. All the Keepers of Departments were, originally, called ‘Under Librarian.’ The General Superintendent or Warden has always been called ‘Principal Librarian.’
[56]. One of Cook’s many individual gifts was the first Kangaroo ever brought into Europe.
[57]. In a copy of this work now before me, the original drawings are bound up with the engravings, and later drawings are added. They serve to show that Sir William’s scientific interest in the subject lasted as long as his life.
[58]. That superiority, however, is only partial. The original Naples edition, along with many errors, contains much valuable matter omitted in the reprint.
[59]. I find that in this statement—made twenty-four years after the date of the transaction referred to—Sir William’s memory misled him. The amount of the Parliamentary vote was (as I have stated it, on a previous page) eight thousand four hundred pounds.
[60]. This John Towneley was sent first to Chester Castle, then to the Marshalsea in Southwark, then to York Castle, and to a block-house in Hull. From Yorkshire he was sent to the Gatehouse at Westminster, and thence to a jail in Manchester. From his Lancashire prison he was presently hustled into Oxfordshire, and sent thence to another prison at Ely. The gallant old recusant survived it all, to die at Towneley at last.