[Footnote 98: Lord Hervey, "Mem. of Geo. II," vol. i, p. 5.] [Footnote 99: _Idem_, vol. i, p. 170.] [Footnote 100: _Idem_, vol. i, p. 18.] [Footnote 101: Hervey's "Mem.," i, 20.] [Footnote 102: _Idem_, vol. 1, p. 208.] [Footnote 103: Hervey's "Memoirs," 1, 39.] [Footnote 104: _Idem_, ii, 360.] [Footnote 105: _Idem_, ii, 31.] [Footnote 106: _Idem_, vol. i, p. 91.] [Footnote 107: Hervey's "Memoirs," vol. 1, p. 37.] [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.]