[398] Under Lord Chatham’s administration in the war.
[399] Thomas Harley, a merchant, and brother of the Earl of Oxford.
[400] The tax on cyder.
[401] The Duke of Bedford.
[402] Walpole’s Correspondence, vol. iv. p. 329.
[403] Vide Wilkes v. Wood. State Trials, vol. xix. 1154.—E.
[404] Vide Mr. Croker’s note in Walpole’s Correspondence, vol. iv. p. 322.
[405] He was the second son of William de Grey, Esq., M.P., and younger brother of Thomas de Grey of Merton Hall, M.P. for Norfolk, whose estates he inherited, on the death of the latter without issue, in 1765.—E.
[406] This was one of the most obstinate contests of the day, and cost Mr. Luther many thousand pounds. He had been the pupil, and was the intimate friend, of Dr. Watson, the Bishop of Landaff, to whom he bequeathed a considerable portion of his fortune. The Bishop describes him correctly as a man of most upright conduct and honourable principles. He died in 1786. Watson’s Anecdotes, vol. i. p. 235.—E.
[407] Philip Yorke, Lord Royston, afterwards second Earl of Hardwicke.—See infra.