[167] Lockhart Papers.
[168] See various papers in the State Paper Office. Collections for 1722.
[169] Lockhart, vol. ii. p. 149.
[170] Id. p. 183.
[171] Lockhart, vol. ii. p. 198.
[172] Mr. C. Kirkpatrick Sharpe was good enough to inform me that he had seen some letters on this subject, which exculpated Lady Mary W. Montague. The correspondence was destroyed, but it conveyed to the mind of that accomplished and erudite gentleman, who saw it, the impression that the charge against Lady Mary Wortley was groundless.
[173] I write it Radcliffe, because the most careful historians and genealogists have given the preference to that mode of spelling the name.
[174] The fact has been rather surmised than proved.
[175] Hutchinson's View of Northumberland, vol. i. p. 171.
[176] Lysons' Magna Britannia, vol. ii. p. 85.