[230] Amours, p. 47.
[231] Celia Fiennes: Through England on a Side Saddle, Introduction, pp. ix-xi.
[232] Celia Fiennes: Through England on a Side Saddle, p. 99.
[233] Ibid., p. 114.
[234] Between 1767 and 1771.
[235] Celia Fiennes: Through England on a Side Saddle, p. 163.
[236] Ibid., p. 165.
[237] In Nichols: Literary Anecdotes, vol. IV, p. 139, is this statement: "From another of Miss Elstob's letters in the same collection [letters to Mr. Ballard] it appears that Dr. Hickes was her grandfather by the mother's side; a circumstance which may account for her proficiency, if not for the origin of her Saxon studies." I have not as yet found confirmation of this relationship. In the letters and dedications to him the brother and sister put forward no claim to relationship, and in the letter Dr. Hickes wrote in behalf of William Elstob and in those written in approbation of Miss Elstob's work, there is no indication that he was asking help for his grandchildren. The Dictionary of National Biography says that Dr. Hickes "left no children," a statement slightly ambiguous, for while it conveys the impression that he had no children, it might be literally true even if Jane Elstob were his daughter, for she died about twenty-four years before he did. Nichols in Literary Anecdotes speaks of an Elstob pedigree "accompanied by another pedigree of Mrs. Elstob's mother." These were on a single leaf fastened into Richard St. George's Visitation of the County of Durham (1615), among the MSS. of the Harleian Collection.
[238] Walker, John: Letters of Eminent Persons, vol. I, pp. 243-40; Nichols: Literary Anecdotes, vol. IV, pp. 112-40, "The Elstobs."
[239] Preface to Miss Elstob's Homily on the Birthday of St. Gregory.