[25] The name of the ducal seat Gatherum Castle is utterly bad.
[26] Here referred to by his Christian name only. I think it was this eminent M.D. who was called in when Bishop Grantley was dying.
[29a] In two volumes: Oxford, 1857.
[29b] The book, according to the Dictionary of National Biography, was edited by Warton and Huddesford.
[30a] “Even when a Boy, he [T. H.] was observed to be continually poring over the Old Tomb-Stones in his own Church-yard, as soon almost as he was Master of the Alphabet.”
[30b] The following description is taken from Reliquiæ Hearnianæ, vol. ii., p. 904. Hearne wrote:—
5th Feb. 1729.—“My best friend, Mr Francis Cherry, was a very handsome man, particularly when young. His hands were delicately white. He was a man of great parts, and one of the finest gentlemen in England. K. James II., seeing him on horseback in Windsor forest, when his majesty was hunting, asked who it was, and . . . said he never saw any one sit a horse better in his life.
“Mr Cherry was educated at the free school at Bray. . . . He was gentleman commoner at Edem-hall anno 1682. . . . The hall was then very full, particularly there were then a great many gentlemen commoners there.”
[30c] To this school he went daily on foot, three miles there and three back.
[31] Transcriber’s note: reproduced as printed.
[39] The close of the parenthesis is wanting in the original.