[2] It may interest some readers to be reminded that the widow of this earl, Selina, was the founder of the religious body known as ‘Lady Huntingdon’s Connection.’
[3] It may be instructive to the non-legal reader to be told that the word ‘issue’ in law signifies lineal descendants ad infinitum, and therefore has a more extensive signification than ‘children.’ The two terms are often confounded; but while of course ‘issue’ will include children, it may include more than children.