[50]. In this letter occurs the expression: “Let me hear a Saturday night whither the picture came home safe, and did scape the wett”. This seems to refer to his portrait of same date, now in possession of Rev. W. Waddon Martyn.

[51]. This letter ends with the following sentences: “‘To fear God, and honour the King,’ were injunctions so closely tack’d together that they seem to make but one and the same command; a man may as well pretend to be a good Christian without fearing God as a good subject without honouring the King”.

“‘Deo, Patriæ, et Amicis,’ was your great-grandfather, Sir Bevil’s motto—in three (? these) words he has added to his example a rule, which in following you can never err in any duty of life. The brightest courage and the gentlest disposition is part of Lord Clarendon’s character of him; so much of him you have begun to show us already; and the best wish I can make for you is to resemble him as much in all but his untimely fate.”