[208] Georgiana.
[209] Papendiek: Journals.
[210] Ibid.
[211] Peter Pindar: Lyric Odes to the Royal Academicians.
[212] Lord Carlisle: Reminiscences.
[213] "I take this opportunity of enclosing to you a list of the servants that I find absolutely necessary to place about my third and fourth sons; now I put two preceptors to attend them. I have very carefully brought the expense as low as the nature of the thing would permit.
| £ | |||||||||
| Preceptors |
| Mr. de Budé Rev. Mr. Hooke | 350 300 | ||||||
| Page of the Back Stairs |
| Mannorlay, Meller, |
| each, salary £80 for mourning £20 |
| 200 | |||
| Housekeeper | 50 | ||||||||
| For keeping three housemaids, each £20 | 60 | ||||||||
| Porter | 30 | ||||||||
| Watchman | 25 | ||||||||
| Writing Master | 100 | ||||||||
| _____ | |||||||||
| £1,115 | |||||||||
| _____ | |||||||||
"The King to Lord North, August 22, 1772."
Another example of what Lord Brougham called the King's "very minute economy" is given in the present writer's The First Gentleman of Europe, vol. I, p. 105.
[214] Ode upon Ode; or, A Peep at St. James's.