(363) Antonio Cocchi, a learned physician and author, at Florence; a particular friend of Mr. Mann. [The following favourable character of Dr. Cocchi is contained in a letter from the Earl of Cork to Mr. Duncombe, dated Florence, November 29, 1754.  “Mr Mann’s fortunate in the friendship, skill, and care of his physician, Dr. Cocchi.  He is a man of most extensive learning; understands, reads, and speaks all the European languages; studious, polite, modest, humane, and instructive.  He is always to be admired and beloved by all who know him.  Could I live with these two gentlemen only, and converse with few or none others, I should scarce desire to return to England for many years.”]

(364) Samuel Sandys, a republican, raised on the fall of Sir R.’W. to be chancellor of the exchequer, then degraded to a peer and cofferer, and soon afterwards laid aside. [In 1743, he was raised to the peerage by the title of Lord Sandys, Baron of Omberley in the county of Worcester, and died in 1770.  Dr. Nash, in his history of that county, states him to have been “a very useful, diligent senator-a warm, steady friend-a good neighbor, and a most hospitable country gentleman and provincial magistrate.”]

(365) William Murray, brother of Lord- Stormont, and of Lord Dunbar, the Pretender’s first minister.  He is known by his eloquence and the friendship of Mr. Pope.  He was soon afterwards promoted to be solicitor-general. (Afterwards the celebrated chief-justice of the King’s Bench, and Earl of Man’s’field.-D.)

(366) Sir Richard Lloyd, advanced in 1754 to be solicitor-general, in the room of Mr. Murray, appointed attorney-general. [And in 1759, appointed one of the Barons of the exchequer.]

(367) Arthur St. Leger, Lord Doneraile, died in 1750, being lord of the bedchamber to the Prince of Wales.

(368) Lord Sundon and Sir Charles Wager had been the Court candidates for Westminster at the late election against Admiral Vernon and Charles Edwin, Esq.-D.

(369) A great London merchant, and one of the members for the City.  His reputation for integrity and ability gave him much weight in the House of Commons.-D. (Lord Chatham, when mr.  Pitt, frequently calls him the Great Commoner.  In 1749, he became father of the City; when, much against his will, the merchants erected a statue of him in the Royal Exchange.  He died in 1764.]

(370) Paul Whitehead, an infamous but not despicable poet. [See ante, p. 190, Letter 42.]

(371) Thomas Lord Viscount Gage had been a Roman Catholic, and was master of the household to the Prince. [Lord Gage, in 1721, was elected for the borough of Tewksbury; which he represented till within a few months of his death, in 1754.  He was a zealous politician, and distinguished himself, in 1732, by detecting the fraudulent sale of the Derwentwater estates.]