(372) John Perceval, second Earl of Egmont, in Ireland, created, in 176@, Lord Lovel and Rolland in the peerage of Great Britain.  He became, in 1747, a lord of the bedchamber to Frederick Prince of Wales, and in the early part of the reign of George iii. held successively the offices of postmaster-general and first lord of the admiralty.  He was a man of some ability and a frequent and fluent speaker, and was the author of a celebrated party pamphlet of’ the day, entitled “Faction Detected.”  His excessive love of ancestry led him, in Conjunction with his father, and assisted by Anderson, the genealogist, to print two thick octavo volumes respecting his family, entitled “History of the House of Ivery;” a most remarkable monument of human vanity.-D. [Boswell was not of this opinion.  “Some have affected to laugh,” he says, “at the History of the House of Ivery:  it would be well if many others would transmit their pedigrees to posterity, with the same accuracy and generous zeal with which the noble lord who compiled that work has honoured and perpetuated his ancestry.  Family histories, like the imagines majorum of the ancients, excite to virtue.”  See “Life of Johnson,” vol viii. p. 188.]

(373) Swallowfield, in Berkshire, the seat of John Dodd, Esq.

(374) A scheme for obtaining a larger allowance for the Prince of Wales.

(375) Catherine, Duchess Dowager of Buckingham, natural daughter of King James ii. (Supposed to be really the daughter of Colonel Graham, a man of Gallantry of the time, and a lover of her mother, Lady Dorchester.-D.) [This remarkable woman was extravagantly proud of her descent from James the Second, and affected to be the head of the Jacobite party in England.  She maintained a kind of royal state, and affected great devotion to the memory of her father and grandfather.  On the death of her son, the second Duke of Buckingham of the Sheffield family (whose funeral was celebrated in a most extraordinary manner), she applied to the old Duchess of Marlborough, who was as high spirited as herself, for the loan of the richly-ornamented hearse which had conveyed the great duke to his grave.  “Tell her,” said Sarah, “it carried the Duke of Marlborough, and shall never carry any one else.”  “My upholsterer,” rejoined Catherine of Buckingham in a fury, “tells me I can have a finer for twenty pounds."-” This last stroke,” says the editor of the Suffolk Correspondence, " was aimed at the parsimony of their Graces of Marlborough, which was supposed to have been visible even in the funeral; but the sarcasm was as unjust as the original request of borrowing the hearse was mean and unfeeling."-E.]

(376) Angelo Maria Cori, prompter to the Opera.

(377) Mr. Sheffield, natural son of the late Duke of Buckingham, with whom she was at law.

(378) Francis, Baron, and afterwards created Earl Brooke.