[378c] Dr. Pratt (see p. [5]).
[378d] King Henry VIII., act iv. sc. 2; “An old man broken with the storms,” etc.
[379] “These words in the manuscript imitate Stella’s writing, and are sloped the wrong way” (Deane Swift),
[380a] Archibald Douglas, third Marquis of Douglas, was created Duke of Douglas in 1703. He died, without issue, in 1761.
[380b] Arbuthnot and Freind.
[381] Sir Stephen Evance, goldsmith, was knighted in 1690.
[382] Because of the refusal of the House of Lords to allow the Duke of Hamilton (see p. [262]), a Scottish peer who had been raised to the peerage of Great Britain as Duke of Brandon, to sit under that title. The Scottish peers discontinued their attendance at the House until the resolution was partially amended; and the Duke of Hamilton always sat as a representative Scottish peer.
[383] Sir William Robinson (1655–1736), created a baronet in 1689, was M.P. for York from 1697 to 1722. His descendants include the late Earl De Grey and the Marquis of Ripon.