[15] Saturday Morning, Dec. 28th. 1728.
[16] Probably old style, and therefore 1729, N. S.
[17] Probably the name by which he designated his aunt Bayley.
[18] Manchester, June 9. 1732.
[19] His object is said to have been to get a smooth stone which lay on this projecting stone spout, for the pleasure of jerking it.—Biog. Brit. art. Clive.
[20] The Rev. Mr. Smithwick related this anecdote to me in 1827.
[21] Mr. Gilbert Davis confirms this anecdote, as having been told him at Shrewsbury, upwards of forty years ago.
[22] Dated Fort St. George, Dec. 10. 1744.
[23] Biog. Brit. art. Clive.
[24] Orme, vol. i. p. 68.