FOOTNOTES TO BOOK III, CHAPTER VI:

[53] Coxe’s Life of Walpole.

[54] This daughter was eventually given the rank of earl’s daughter, and married Mr. Churchill, a son of General Churchill. Walpole married Maria Skerrett after his wife’s death, but she died soon after her marriage.

[55] Dr. King’s Anecdotes of My Own Time.

[56] Parliamentary History, vol. viii., p. 1,185.

[57] Dr. King’s Anecdotes of My Own Time.

[58] Daily Courant, 2nd February, 1730.

[59] Hooker’s Miscellany, 6th August, 1735.

[60] Daily Post, 1st September, 1736.

[61] Weekly Journal, 8th May, 1736.