[211] Cp. Walpole’s letter to Mann of 26 May, 1742: “The building and disposition of the gardens cost sixteen thousand pounds.”
[212] Walpole to Mann, 26 May, 1742.
[213] Walpole to Conway, 29 June, 1744.
[214] Walpole to Montagu, 26 May, 1748.
[215] Gray to Chute, July 1745 (Gray’s Works, ed. Gosse, ii. 125, ff.).
[216] Works, ed. Gosse, ii. 139.
[217] See especially Kearsley’s Strangers’ Guide (1793?).
[218] This was the number about 1793.
[219] Burney says that the first organist was Keeble, who was succeeded by Butler. Burney himself was organist in 1770.
[220] Boswell, Life, chap. xxvi. p. 236, ed. Croker.