FOOTNOTES:
[1] Vathek was dramatised by the Hon. Mrs. Norton some thirty years since, and was offered to Mr. Bunn for Drury Lane Theatre, but declined; the "exquisite beauties of Mrs. Norton's metrical compositions being overloaded by a pressure of dialogue and a redundancy of scenic effects, the fidelity and rapid succession of which it would have puzzled any scene painter or mechanist to follow."—Bunn's Stage, vol ii., p. 139.
[2] Mr. Farquhar died July 6, 1826, in York Place, Marylebone, aged 76 years; he was buried in St. John's Wood Chapel, where is a handsome monument to his memory, with a medallion head of the deceased by P. Row, sculptor.
[3] Three other of Mr. Beckford's town houses were:—1. On the Terrace, Piccadilly, part of the site of the newly-built mansion of Baron Rothschild; 2. No. 1, Devonshire Place, New Road; and it is said, though we do not vouch how correctly, 3. No. 27, Charles Street, Mayfair, a very small house, looking over the garden of Chesterfield House.
[4] In conformity with an old English custom, Mr. Beckford invariably travelled with his bed among his luggage.
[5] Saturday Review.
[6] Abridged from Sir Bernard Burke's Family Romance, vol. i.
[7] Abridged from Sir Bernard Burke's very interesting Vicissitudes of Families. Second Series. 1860.
[8] This very amusing précis is slightly abridged from the Athenæum journal.
[9] For the details of the measure, see "Irregular Marriages," Knowledge for the Time, 1864, pp. 120-123.