[54] Pellew, “Sidmouth,” i, 28.
[55] Ashbourne, op. cit., 7–8.
[56] “Diary of Thomas Moore,” vol. v.
[57] Pitt MSS., 11.
[58] Ibid.
[59] One remembers here the terrifying remark of Lord Acton that the mass of documents which the modern historian must consult inevitably tells against style.
[60] See an interesting fragment, “Bishop Tomline’s Estimate of Pitt,” by the Earl of Rosebery (London, 1903), also in the “Monthly Review” for August 1903.
[61] Dr. Pretyman was chaplain to George III, and later on Bishop of Lincoln and Dean of St. Paul’s.
[62] Pitt MSS., 196. The notes and diagrams refer to the movement of bodies considered dynamically: there are also some problems in algebra. More numerous are the notes on English History, especially on the parliamentary crises of the years 1603–27, where, unfortunately, they break off. I have also found notes on Plutarch, and translations of the speech of Germanicus in Tacitus (“Annals,” Bk. I), and of parts of the Second Philippic.
[63] His books went in large measure to Bishop Pretyman (Tomline), and many of them are in the library of Orwell Park.