[942] Ib. ii. 84.
[943] The Meditation was perhaps partly suggested by Swift's Meditation upon a Broomstick. Swift's Works (1803), iii. 275.
[944] Thomas Burnet of the Charterhouse, in his Sacred Theory of the Earth, ed. 1722, i. 85.
[945] See ante, i. 476, and ii. 73.
[946] Elizabeth Gunning, celebrated (like her sister, Lady Coventry) for her personal charms, had been previously Duchess of Hamilton, and was mother of Douglas, Duke of Hamilton, the competitor for the Douglas property with the late Lord Douglas: she was, of course, prejudiced against Boswell, who had shewn all the bustling importance of his character in the Douglas cause, and it was said, I know not on what authority, that he headed the mob which broke the windows of some of the judges, and of Lord Auchinleck, his father, in particular. WALTER SCOTT. See ante, ii. 50.
[947] See ante, i. 408, and ii. 329.
[948] She married the Earl of Derby, and was the great-grandmother of the present Earl. Burke's Peerage.
[949] See ante, iv. 248.
[950] Lord Macaulay's grandfather, Trevelyan's Macaulay, i. 6.
[951] See ante, p. 118.