[5] Butler was a Worcestershire man.
[6] In looking over some old records at the General Post-office I noticed that the first Kidderminster postmaster, who was appointed about the beginning of last century, was named Hill. Likely enough he was an ancestor of Sir Rowland Hill.
[7] An instance of the manufacture of a new kind of faggot-vote.
[8] In this, as in other cases, I quote from the fragments of an autobiography which Mr. T. W. Hill left behind him at his death. As he did not begin to write it until he had by some years passed fourscore, it is scarcely surprising that he never finished it.
[9] He was also related through her to Dr. J. A. Symonds, the late eminent physician of Clifton, and his son, Mr. J. A. Symonds, the accomplished essayist, to the Rev. Morell Mackenzie, who showed such noble fortitude at the shipwreck of the Pegasus, and to the admirable comedian, the late Mr. Compton.
[10] Vol. I., p. 9.
[11] “Essays of a Birmingham Manufacturer.” By William Lucas Sargant. Vol. II., p. 186.
[12] The definition is as follows:—“A straight line is a line in which, if any two points be taken, the part intercepted shall be less than any other line in which those points can be found.”
[13] “The strength of prejudice at the time is well exemplified by the following epigram, written in all earnestness and sincerity, by one of my father’s intimate friends:—
“‘And what did Watt accomplish for mankind?—