[144] William may have come from the village of Bassingbourne, near Cambridge.
[145] See Henry IV., Part ii., Act v., Scene v.
[150] In 1561 a new seal was made which is still in use.
[154] Here and elsewhere I have fallen a victim to Dr Moore’s pleasant gift of narrative, for I cannot pretend that either Paulus Jovius or Robert Browning are connected with the hospital.
[161] Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy, edited by Wilfrid Airy. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1896.
[164] My uncle, Henry Wedgwood, as an undergraduate at Jesus, made a happy use of Peacock’s name:—
“Walk in and see
Our menagerie,
For amateurs a feast,
Where Dawes and Peacock
Are our birds
And . . . is our beast.”
I have forgotten the name of the beast, but he was an unpopular fellow of Jesus.
[166] I am surprised that so large a sum was charged in those days; in my time the coach received £8.
[175a] A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith, by his daughter, Lady Holland. With a selection from his letters, edited by Mrs Austin. 2nd Edit., 1855.