[Footnote 108:  Hervey, 1, 22-25.]

[Footnote 109:  Horace Walpole, “Reminiscences.”]

[Footnote 110:  Locke “On Civil Government,” b. ii, ch. 13; Lecky’s “History of the 18th Century,” vol.  I, p. 471.]

[Footnote 111:  Hervey’s “Memoirs,” ii, 280.]

[Footnote 112:  Chesterfield, “Correspondence,” iii, 94.]

[Footnote 113:  Walpole to Mann, Dec. 24, 1741.]

[Footnote 114:  Hervey’s “Memoirs,” i, 172.]

[Footnote 115:  “History of the Eighteenth Century,” vol. 1, p. 512.]

[Footnote 116:  Green’s “Short History of the English People,” pp. 768-9.]

[Footnote 117:  Hervey, ii, 189, note.]

[Footnote 118:  Hervey’s “Memoirs,” vol. i, p. 500.]

[Footnote 119:  Hervey’s “Memoirs,” vol. i, p. 502.]

[Footnote 120:  Lord Hervey’s “Memoirs”, ii, 255.]

[Footnote 121:  Idem, ii, 434.]

[Footnote 122:  Hervey’s “Memoirs,” ii, 472.]

[Footnote 123:  Hervey’s “Memoirs,” ii, 350.]

[Footnote 124:  Idem, i, 90.]

[Footnote 125:  Idem, ii, 349.]

[Footnote 126:  Tatler, No. 159, Saturday, April 15, 1710.]

[Footnote 127:  Steele, Tatler, No. 5.]

[Footnote 128:  Walpole to Montague, March 20, 1737.]

[Footnote 129:  Wilson’s “Memoirs of Defoe,” vol. i, p. 265.]

[Footnote 130:  Wilson’s “Memoirs of Defoe,” vol. i, p. 206.]

[Footnote 131:  Steele, Tatler, No. 12 May 7, 1709.]

[Footnote 132:  Walpole to Mann, Nov. 26, 1711.]

[Footnote 133:  Letter to Mrs. Ann Granville, Dec. 5, 1739.]

[Footnote 134:  Letter to Mrs. Ann Granville, Jan. 17, 1731-32.]

[Footnote 135:  Letter to Mrs. Ann Granville, Nov. 18, 1729.]

[Footnote 136:  Letter to Mrs. Ann Granville, Christmas-day, 1729.]

[Footnote 137:  Green, “Short History of the English People,” p. 717.]

[Footnote 138:  Lord Hervey’s “Memoirs of George II,” vol. ii, p. 139.]

[Footnote 139:  Strutt’s “Sports and Pastimes,” p. 259; Lecky, “History of England in the 18th Century,” vol. i, chap. iv.]

[Footnote 140:  Lecky, “History of England in the 18th Century,” vol. i, p. 522.]

[Footnote 141:  Walpole to Sir H. Mann, March 23, 1752.]

[Footnote 142:  The Spectator, “Sir Roger at the Playhouse.”]

[Footnote 143:  Horace Walpole, “Short Notes of My Life.”]

[Footnote 144:  Horace Walpole to Sir H. Mann, Aug. 2, 1750.]

[Footnote 145:  See the “Newgate Calendar.”]

[Footnote 146:  See the “Newgate Calendar” and Pike’s “History of Crime,” vol. 2, chap. x.]

[Footnote 147:  Walpole to Mann, bet.  July 14 and 29, 1742.]

[Footnote 148:  “Amelia,” book i, chap. 2.]

[Footnote 149:  Walpole to Mann, bet.  July 14 and 29, 1742.]