[133] MS.
[138] Pickering, 1829.
[139] Mr. Rocque, the florist, was brother to the surveyor of that name, who published a plan of London, Westminster, and Southwark, on twenty-four sheets, in 1747; and a map of London and the country ten miles round, in sixteen sheets, the following year. He also published a road-book of Great Britain and Ireland in 1763.
[144a] “This tree was first introduced into England in 1753, by Mr. James Gordon.”—Lysons.
[144b] “The foliage more resembles that of the juglans nigra than of the Illinois-nut in Kew Gardens.”—Ibid.
[144c] “At two feet from the ground it was seven feet two inches, and now (1810) seven feet five inches.”—Ibid.
[144d] “The girth of this tree was taken in 1808 at two feet and a half from the ground.”—Ibid.
[144e] “At two feet and a half from the ground.”—Ibid.
[145] James iv. 14.
[155a] On the same page of the ‘London Magazine’ which chronicles this occurrence, may be found the announcement of the death of “Mr. Joseph Miller, a celebrated comedian.”