[399a] John Wilson Croker (1780–1857): Politician and Essayist; friend of Canning and Peel. At one time Temporary Chief Secretary for Ireland and later Secretary of the Admiralty. Supposed to have been the original of Rigby in Disraeli’s Coningsby.
[399b] Mr Theodore Watts-Dunton, “Notes upon George Borrow” prefaced to an edition of Lavengro. Ward, Lock & Co.
[400a] The Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell in Obiter Dicta, and Series, 1887.
[400b] Francis Hindes Groome in Bookman, May 1899.
[404a] “Swimming is a noble exercise, but it certainly does not tend to mortify either the flesh or the spirit.”—The Bible in Spain, page 688.
[404b] Mr John Murray in Good Words.
[404c] In The Eastern Daily Press, 1st October 1892.
[405] Borrow’s reference is to the county motto, “One and All.”
[407a] The Life of George Borrow, by Dr Knapp, ii., 79–80.
[407b] George Borrow, by R. A. J. Walling.