(235) The following is Dodington’s own account of this plan:- -"March 21.  When this unfortunate event happened, I had set on foot a project for a union between the independent Whigs and Tories, by a writing, renouncing all tincture of Jacobitism, and affirming short constitutional Revolution principles.  These parties, so united, were to lay this paper, containing these principles, before the Prince, offering to appear as his party now, and upon those principles to undertake the administration when he was King, in the subordination and rank among themselves that he should please to appoint.  Father of mercy! thy hand that wounds alone can save!” Diary, P. 88.-E.

(236) Lord Middlesex.

(237) Thomas Hayter, Bishop of Norwich.

(238) Dr. Lancelot Blackburne. (See vol. i.  The Quarterly Reviewer of Walpole’s Memoires, alluding to a similar statement made in that work says,—­“As to the accusations of bastardy and profligacy brought against the Bishop and Archbishop, they were, probably, either the creatures of Walpole’s own anxiety to draw striking characters, or the echoes of some of those slanderous murmurs which always accompany persons who rise from inferior stations to eminence.  He tells us without any hesitation, that Bishop Hayter was a natural son of archbishop Blackburne’s.  Now we have before us extracts from the registers of the parish of Chagford, in Devonshire, which prove that the Bishop Thomas Hayter was ’the son of George Hayter, rector of this parish, and of Grace his wife,’ and that Thomas was one of a family of not fewer, we believe, than ten children Vol. xxvii. p. 186.-E.)

(239) George Augustus Yelverton, second Earl of Sussex, died 1758.-D.

(240) Henry Pleydell Dawnay, third Viscount Downe in Ireland.  He distinguished himself greatly in the command of a regiment at the battle of Minden; and died Dec. 9th, 1760, of the wounds he had received at the battle of Campen, Oct. 16th of that year.-D.

(241) The third son of Robert, first Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven.  He died in 1782.-D.

(242) “May 3.-Sense of the House taken, if the young Prince of Wales’s new servants should be reelected:  it was agreed not.  The act was read; but those who seemed to favour a re-election forgot to call for the warrants that appointed them servants to the Prince:  by whom are they signed? if by the King, the case would not have admitted a word of dispute.”  Dodington, p. 104.-E.

(243) Mademoiselle d’Olbreuse.  It is this m`esalliance which prevents our Royal Family from being what is called chapitrate in Germany.  Mademoiselle d’Olbreuse was the mother of George the First’s unhappy wife.-D.

(244) Lady Pomfret.

(245) See ant`e.-E.

(246) Henry Petty, Earl of Shelburne in Ireland, the last of the male descendants of Sir William Petty.  Upon his death his titles extinguished; but his estates devolved on his nephew, the Lord John Fitz Maurice, in whose favour the title of Shelburne was revived.-D.