[71] Chatham Correspondence.
[72] Mary Berry: Journals.
[73] Chatham Correspondence.
[74] Chatham Correspondence.
[75] Memoirs of George III.
[76] Phillimore: Life of Lyttelton.
[77] Chatham Correspondence.
[78] "I think I have a right to insist on your remaining in my service; for I with pleasure look forward to the time of your recovery, when I may have your assistance in resisting the torrent of factions this country so much labours under."—George III to Lord Chatham.
[79] Memoirs of George III.
[80] Nancy Parsons subsequently married Lord Maynard, an event duly chronicled by an anonymous pamphleteer in "A Letter to a Celebrated Young Nobleman on His Late Nuptials," 1777. "I will not on this occasion pay your Lordship so bad a compliment as to enumerate Lady Maynard's charms; all the world knows them as well as yourself; her virtues you alone are acquainted with."