[127] Repertory 148, fo. 165.

[128] Walpole to Mann, 1 March.—Letters i, 292.

[129] The same to the same, 5 March.—Id. i, 294.

[130] Repertory 148, fo. 230.

[131] Journal 58, fo. 377b.

[132] Journal 58, fos. 378, 383; Repertory 149, fos. 398, 399.

[133] Francis, "History of Bank of England," i, 162.

[134] Hogarth's famous picture of the "March to Finchley" is preserved in the Foundling Hospital.

[135] Journal 59, fo. 16b.

[136] "I had this morning a subscription book brought me for our parish. Lord Granville had refused to subscribe. This is in the style of his friend, Lord Bath, who has absented himself whenever any act of authority was to be executed against the rebels."—Walpole to Mann, 22 Nov., 1745; Letters, i, 404-405.