[163] Miss Hill supplies us with the line from The Task, 'The Winter Walk at Noon,' ll. 149-50:—
| 'Laburnum rich |
| In streaming gold; syringa, ivory pure.' |
[164] The Austens were about to become Lord Lansdowne's tenants in Castle Square.
[165] Johnson to Boswell, July 4, 1774.—Birkbeck Hill's Boswell, ii. 279.
[166] Mr. John Austen of Broadford, under whose will the property at Horsmonden came into the possession of the family of 'Uncle Frank' on the failure of his own direct heirs. See [Chapter I].
[167] Letters from the Mountains: being the real Correspondence of a Lady, between 1773 and 1807, by Mrs. Grant of Laggan.
[168] Probably An Account of the Manners and Customs of Italy, etc. London, 1768-9.
[169] Memoir, p. 77.
[170] Ibid. p. 140.
[171] Brabourne, vol. ii. p. 116.