[54] This lady was Margaret, daughter of Sir David Cunninghame, of Milnecraig, and his wife, Lady Mary Montgomery, daughter of Alexander, ninth Earl of Eglinton. She married, in 1767, the Hon. James Archibald Stuart, second son of John, third Earl of Bute. This gentleman was one of Boswell’s most attached friends. [55] Afterwards Viscount Melville. [56] A forcible rendering of what he meant by styling Dr. Johnson “Ursa major.” [57] Letter dated 6th June, 1775. [58] Boswell’s “Life of Johnson,” London, 1818, 10 vols., 12mo., vol. vi., p. 34. [59] From the Register of Tailzies, preserved in the General Register House, Edinburgh, vol. xix., folio 233. [60] The Rev. Thomas Barnard, D.D., Dean of Derry, was elected a member of the Literary Club in December, 1755. Son of William Barnard, D.D., successively Bishop of Raphoe and Derry, he was educated at Westminster School. Obtaining orders, he was appointed Dean of Derry in 1769. He was consecrated Bishop of Killaloe in 1780, and translated to the see of Limerick in 1794. He died at Wimbledon, Surrey, on the 7th June, 1806. He was a cherished friend of Dr. Goldsmith, and an associate of Johnson, Burke, and Sir Joshua Reynolds. [61] “Life of Johnson.” [62] The negro gained his plea. [63] Correspondence of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, edited by Charles Earl Fitzwilliam. Lond., 4 vols., 1844, vol. ii, p. 207. [64] “Life of Johnson.” [65] Mr. Croker relates the anecdote on the authority of the Marquess of Wellesley, who received it from Mr. Thomas Sydenham. That gentleman got the story from Mr. Knight, to whom it was communicated by Sir Joshua Reynolds. [66] “Life of Johnson.” [67] Throughout these papers Boswell adopts his peculiar system of orthography, presenting _judgement_ for judgment, _authour_ for author, _empannael_ for empannel. [68] The Honourable Mary Monckton was youngest daughter of John, first Viscount Galway. She married, on the 17th January, 1786, Edmund, seventh Earl of Cork; she died in 1840. [69] “Life of Johnson.” [70] This gentleman was, we believe, father of Mr. John Murdoch, the first and most efficient instructor of the poet Burns. [71] A Mr. Twamley invented a kind of box-iron for smoothing linen. [72] Lord Lowther was son-in-law of the Earl of Bute, and brother-in-law of Boswell’s friend, Colonel Stuart. Boswell’s relations with this influential nobleman will form a prominent feature in the subsequent narrative. [73] Life of Edmund Malone, by James Boswell, jun., contributed to the _Gentleman’s Magazine_, and reprinted for private circulation. [74] Mr. Malone published in 1778 his “Attempt to ascertain the order in which Shakespeare’s Plays were written.” [75] A Poetical Review of the Literary and Moral Character of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D., with Notes by John Courtenay, Esq. Lond.: C. Dilly, 1786. [76] The celebrated Flora Macdonald. [77] The pseudonym of Dr. John Wolcott, the eminent satirist.