(36) George Lane Parker(1724-1791), second son of George, second Earl of Macclesfield.  He became a general and a Member of Parliament.

(37) William Wildman, second Viscount Barrington (1717-1793).  He filled various high official and court offices; he was a Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1761, and subsequently Secretary at War.

(38) The Bedford faction effected a junction with the Government at the end of 1767, and Lord Sandwich, and Lord Weymouth, and Rigby entered the Ministry.

(39)5 Caroline Fitzroy, eldest daughter of the second Duke of Grafton.  She married Lord Petersham, second Earl of Harrington in 1746.

(40) Richard Barry (1745-1773) succeeded as sixth Earl of Barrymore at six years of age.  He married Lady Stanhope, daughter of William, Earl of Harrington.  He was notorious as a skilful gambler.  He is said to have been an excellent officer, holding a captain’s commission at the time of his death.

(41) Alice Elizabeth, youngest daughter and co-heir of Herbert, second Viscount Windsor.  She married Lord Beauchamp that year.

(42) John Radcliffc married Lady Frances Howard, Lord Carlisle’s sister.

(43) Almack’s Club was established by Macall in 1764.  It was subsequently taken over by a wine merchant named Brooks and was thenceforward known as Brooks’s.  This club was primarily formed for the purpose of high play; one of the rules reads:  “Every person playing at the new quinze table shall keep fifty guineas before him.”  At play it was the fashion to wear a great coat, sometimes turned inside out for luck; the lace ruffles were covered by a leathern bib.  Broadbrimmed high hats, trimmed with ribbon and flowers, completed a proper gaming costume.

(44) Robert Shafto of Whitworth, M.P. for Durham—­fond of racing and betting.

(45) Henry St. John, called “the Baptist,” was a brother of “Bully,” second Viscount Bolingbroke.  Horace Walpole writes of them as Lord Corydon and Captain Corydon.  He was a Groom of the Bedchamber, a Member of Parliament, and a colonel in the army.  He was a man of wit, universally popular.

[1768,] Jan. 15, Friday morning.—­We are at this moment in some alarm about you, which I hope to find has been given without any foundation; however, en tous cas, I hope this will find you at Nice, and not at Turin, where Lady Carlisle has been told there is a contagious disorder.  You are near enough that place to have better intelligence than we.

I dine(d) with the Duke of Grafton the day before yesterday at Lord Barrington’s, who assured me the death of Mr. Shirley would not occasion any delay in regard to you.  Sir W[illiam] M[usgrave] and I have been contriving how to save you the price of the courier, which, for going and coming, is above 150 pounds.  I shall apply to Lord Clive(46) through his former secretary, my neighbour Mr. Walsh.  Lord Clive is going to Nice, although I suppose by a slow progress, and can supply this courier’s place, a pas de tortue, that will not be inconvenient if you don’t leave Nice immediately; if you do, a more expeditious method may be thought of.  But I am very desirous of adding no more expense to that which this Order will cost you.