[84] William Vernon-Harcourt {1789-1871}, father of Sir William
    Vernon-Harcourt, M.P.

[85] Patrick Duigenan (1735-1816), LL.D., M.P. for the City of Armagh, and
    Protestant agitator.

[86] The Yorkshire Gazette for April 12, 1823, contains a long
    letter from “A North Riding Clergyman,” protesting against the
    language used by Sydney Smith.  This clergyman states that the report
    of the meeting at Thirsk, given by the York Herald of March 29, was
    “unquestionably by the Minority themselves.”  It “professes to be a
    sketch of what was said and done at the meeting of the North Riding
    Clergy.  Then the public is favoured with three considerable speeches,
    filling three close columns of a newspaper, on the one side; and not
    with three lines, nay, not with one, of anything said on the other
    side....  Surely the whole of the twenty-two clergyman who differed
    from the ten were not so astounded by the eloquence and display of
    their opponents as to remain absolutely speechless.”  It is further
    said that “on the present occasion, and after assuring his learned
    brethren that he was not going to inflict upon them a speech, and some
    other remarks of similar accuracy, Mr. Smith immediately harangues
    them in a vehement and long speech; during which, with firm resolve,
    it may seem, not to possess either ‘overheated mind’ or body, he
    nearly exhausted the ‘Three Tuns’ of water,” For this quotation, and
    for the date of the meeting, which had been erroneously stated by
    previous writers, I am indebted to the courtesy of Mr. J.S.R. 
    Phillips, editor of the Yorkshire Post.

[87] (1808-1889):  became 8th Earl of Carlisle in 1864 The Rev. Richard
    Wilton, Canon of York and Rector of Londesborough, wrote in 1895:—­“My
    former venerable friend, the oldest inhabitant, gave me some graphic
    descriptions of Sydney Smith’s visit to the parish once or twice a
    year, and the interest which was felt in the village when he drove
    over from Foston, his other living, to preach an occasional sermon at
    Londesborough.  His reading, and manner in the pulpit, were described
    to me as having been ‘bold and impressive.’  As soon as the sermon was
    over, he would hasten out of the church along with his hearers, and
    chat with the farmers about their turnips, or cattle, or corn-crops,
    being anxious to utilize his scant opportunities of conversing with
    his parishioners....  There was until lately living in this parish an
    old man aged eighty, who was proud of telling how he was invited over
    to Foston to ‘brew for Sydney,’ as he affectionately called him.”

[88] Mr. Stuart Reid gives to this curious name the more impressive form of
    Mayelstone.

[89] As Earl Marshal.