London and the Kingdom - Volume 3 / A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London.

by Reginald R. Sharpe

[274] Journal House of Commons, xxi, 238.

[275] Walpole, Memoirs, iv, 278, 287-289.

[276] Correspondence, i, 64.

[277] Crosby sat for Honiton, whilst Oliver had succeeded Beckford as one of the members for the city. Wilkes was also summoned to attend, but not as a member. He therefore disobeyed the summons, informing the Speaker by letter that when admitted to his seat for Middlesex he would attend, but not before.—Gentleman's Magazine, xli, 140; Annual Register, xiv, 188.

[278] Journal House of Commons, xxxiii, 275.

[279] Annual Register, xiv, 83.

[280] Walpole to Mann, 22 March.—Letters, v, 286.

[281] Journal House of Commons, xxxiii, 269.

[282] Journal House of Commons, xxxiii, 275; Journal 65, fo. 210.

[283] Journal House of Commons, xxxiii, 279, 280.