Footnotes

[1.]

“Seiner Excellenz dem Freyheren van Swieten ehrerbietigst gewidmet von dem Verfasser.”

So far the New Bachgesellschaft has published only a single Cantata overlooked by the old Society. See infra, p. 280.

In The News of January 4, 1829, he is described as the second son of the late John Stephenson of Great Ormonde Street, Queen Square, whom he had succeeded in the partnership of the firm. His wife was dead, and of his eight children the eldest was also in the Bank.