[52] Robert Nugent, bred a Roman Catholic, had turned Protestant, and not long after married Mrs. Knight, sister and daughter to the two Craggs’s.
[53] It was addressed to Lord Bath upon the author’s change of his religion; but was universally believed to be written by Mallet, who was tutor to Newsham, Mrs. Nugent’s son, and improved by Mr. Pulteney himself and Lord Chesterfield.
[54] Had this ode been really his own, he would resemble the poet Tynnichus in Plato’s Io, “who never composed any other poem worth the mention or remembrance, besides that poem which every body sings.”—See Sydenham’s Translat. p. 49.
[55] The Duke of Newcastle included in the word “Pelhams.”—E.
[56] Yet it was remarkable that Dr. Gally, the Minister of his parish, could never get admitted to Murray, when he was collecting subscriptions against the Rebellion, though he went several times to his house at all hours.
[57] Melusina Schulemburgh, Countess of Walsingham.
[58] She left £20,000 to Lord Chesterfield, and £10,000 to William Pitt.