[129] [The initials are probably Allsop’s.]
[130] [Letter CCXXXI is our 206.]
[131] [Letters CCXXXII-CCXXXIII follow 207.]
[132] [Letter CCXXXIV follows 210.]
[133] [Letters CCXXXV-CCXXXVIII follow 213.]
[134] [1822–23.]
[135] The particulars of this instance of Star Chamber tyranny I read in Aikman’s Life of Archbishop Laud, prefixed to his works. It is said that when he was taken out of the wretched cell in Newgate in which he was confined before his sentence, “the skin and hair had almost wholly come off his body.” This was for writing against Prelacy, not against Christianity. Any man may do the like now and not a hair of his head can be touched; yet moral offences, public or private, have far less chance of escaping with impunity than they had then. [S. C.]
[136] Clarendon, passim, especially his summary of Laud’s character. [S. C.]
[137] [Hyman Hurwitz, see Aldine Edition of the Poems, ii, [248].]
[138] [Letter CCXXXIX follows letter 214.]