[426] "Observations, Rules, etc.," p. 162.
[427] No. 812, June 2, 1711.
[428] Townsend's "Memoirs," vol. ii. p. 461.
[429] "Letters and Works of Lady M. W. Montagu," vol. ii. p. 37. (I have described this incident at length in "A Group of Scottish Women," pp. 137-8.)
[430] "Memoirs," 4 April, 1829.
[431] See A. Young's "Autobiography," p. 17. (Election Petitions were tried before the whole House, and thus resolved themselves into mere party struggles. In 1770, Grenville moved that they be referred to small committees.)
[432] Pearson's "Political Dictionary," p. 34.
[433] Grantley Berkeley's "Recollections," vol. i. p. 369.
[434] "Life and Letters," vol. ii. p. 66.
[435] "Posthumous Memoirs."