[154]. Note in Walpole, p. 189, vol. iii.
[155]. Walpole, p. 192.
[156]. Dr. Waagen says they were sequestrated; but it appears only a portion of them were sold by the Parliament--the rest fell into the hands of the second Duke of Buckingham.
[157]. Biographia, Art. “George Villiers,” the second note.
[158]. See Biographia Britannica.
[159]. Walpole.
[160]. Dr. Waagen says that some of the Duke’s pictures were not genuine, and many of little worth; but this is not the opinion of Horace Walpole.
[161]. Walpole’s Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iii., p. 297--from the Journals of the House of Commons.
[162]. Walpole’s Anecdotes of Painting, vol. iii., p. 200.
[163]. Ibid., p. 204.