[51] Bubb Dodington: Diary.
[52] James Johnson (1705-1774), Bishop of Gloucester, 1752; Bishop of Worcester, 1759.
[53] John Thomas (1696-1781), successively Bishop of Peterborough (1747), Salisbury (1757) and Winchester (1761).
[54] Walpole: Memoirs of King George II.
[55] James, second Earl Waldegrave (1715-1763), married Maria Walpole, a natural daughter of Sir Edward Walpole by Mrs. Clement, a milliner. After the death of her first husband the Countess secretly married on September 6, 1766, William Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and the union was publicly announced when the Royal Marriage Act was introduced into Parliament.
[56] John Stuart, third Earl of Bute (1715-1792).
[57] He was appointed Lord of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales in September, 1750.
[58] Walpole: Memoirs of George II.
[59] Walpoliana.
[60] Thackeray: The Four Georges.