[41] 10th Feb. 1721–2.—“Whereas the university deputations on Ash Wednesday should begin exactly at one o’clock, they did not begin this year till two or after, which is owing to several colleges having altered their hour of dining from eleven to twelve, occasioned from people’s lying in bed longer than they used to do.”
[46a] The word heartick does not occur in the New Oxford Dictionary.
[46b] Of Lord Baltimore’s family.
[56a] Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, i., p. 138.
[56b] As described in Rustic Sounds, p. 2.
[60] Pickwick, chap. xliv.
[62] The “scorers were prepared to notch the runs” (Pickwick, chap. vii.).
[63] He was afterwards Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford: he died in 1893.
[67] Rustic Sounds, p. 92.
[68a] During my life in London as a medical student I had the happiness of living with my uncle, Erasmus Darwin, one beloved under the name of Uncle Ras by all his nephews and nieces.