[13] She married William Mallock, Esq. The distinguished writer, Mr. William Hurrell Mallock, is their son.
[14] The ‘Passon Chowne’ of Mr. Blackmore’s Maid of Sker.
[15] 1826.
[16] ‘To do our best is one part, but to wash our hands smilingly of the consequence is the next part of any sensible virtue.’ The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson. New York: Scribner, 1899, i., 342.
[17] i.e. extravagant or emotional.
[18] In the now obsolete sense of fanaticism.
[19] Oxford.
[20] ‘Mere’ in Remains.
[21] Archdeacon Froude had come into possession of his Denbury estate, through the three coheiresses of the last feoffee, in 1807, when his eldest son was four years old.
[22] His two elder sisters are always so called in his letters.