[8] Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, new ser., II, 1877, 473; Sir [John] Bernard Burke, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, 9th ed., 1898, II, “Ireland,” p. 441; Richard Eustace Tickell, Thomas Tickell and the Eighteenth Century Poets, 1931, p. 173 and “Tickell Pedigree.”

[9] A long letter from John Tickell to the Duke of Newcastle, 26 August 1767, alludes to these circumstances and appeals to Newcastle’s generosity (Newcastle Papers, British Museum Add. MSS. 32,984, f. 350).

[10] G. F. R. Barker and A. H. Stenning (compilers), The Record of Old Westminsters, 1928, II, 919; R. A. Austen-Leigh (ed.), The Eton College Register, 1753-1790, Eton, 1921, p. 517; John Hutchinson, A Catalogue of Notable Middle Templars, 1902, p. 242.

[11] David Erskine Baker, Isaac Reed, and Stephen Jones (compilers), Biographia Dramatica, 1812, I, 713.

[12] Tickell to Garrick, 11 May 1778 (Private Correspondence of David Garrick [ed. James Boaden], 1831-32, II, 304).

[13] Unpublished letter in the Theatre Collection, Harvard College Library.

[14] I, 713-714.

[15] Garrick, Private Correspondence, II, 317.

[16] Private Letters of Edward Gibbon, ed. R. E. Prothero, 1896, I, 348.

[17] Last Journals during the Reign of George III, ed. A. Francis Steuart, 1910, II, 206n.