[36] Cowper.
[37] The English landlord has been held up to obloquy, as endeavouring to keep up the price of corn, for his own sordid interest; but rent never leads, it only follows, and the utmost a landlord can get for his capital is three per cent., whereas the lord of whirling wheels gains thirty per cent.
[38] These lines were written at Stourhead.
[39] The Bishop of Bath and Wells. Ken was one of the seven bishops sent to the Tower by James. He had character, patronage, wealth, station, eminence: he resigned all, at the accession of King William, for the sake of that conscience which, in a former reign, sent him a prisoner to the Tower. He had no home in the world; but he found an asylum with the generous nobleman who had been his old schoolfellow at Winchester. Here, it is said, he brought with him his shroud, in which he was buried at Frome; and here he chiefly composed his four volumes of poems.
[40] The Rev. Mr Skurray.
[41] The seat of the Earl of Cork and Orrery.
[42] Mrs Heneage, Compton House.
[43] Mrs Methuen, of Corsham House.
[44] For the "Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge," on which occasion a sermon was preached by the author.
[45] A book, just published, with this title, "The Duke of Marlborough is rector of Overton, near Marlborough."