[381] Repertory 180, fos. 288-294. [382] Repertory 179, fo. 194. [383] Chatham Correspondence iv, 378, note. [384] Journal 66, fos. 179, 181b. [385] Journal 66, fos. 185-185b, 188b-190, 191-192. [386] Journal House of Commons, xxxv, 182, 241; Journal House of Lords, xxxiv, 365. [387] On the 7th March a pamphlet had been published entitled "Taxation no Tyranny; an Answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress,"--from the pen of Dr. Johnson.--Boswell's Life of Johnson (Napier), ii, 289. [388] Common Hall Book, No. 8, fos. 186b-188. [389] Walpole, Journal i, 484. Wilkes's winning manner was never more conspicuous than when, a year later (15 May, 1776), he first met Dr. Johnson at dinner. The story how he succeeded in completely winning over the learned lexicographer who had hitherto looked upon Wilkes as little more than a low demagogue, is admirably told in Boswell's Life (iii, 108-117). They afterwards became very good friends, and Johnson was fain to confess that "Jack was a scholar" and "Jack had the manners of a gentleman," and that "although Jack had always been at him, he would do Jack a kindness rather than not."--(_Id._, iii, 208.) [390] Common Hall Book, No. 8, fos. 189b-191. [391] See Plumbe's case. _Supra_ pp. 138, 139. [392] Walpole's Journal i, 487. It is printed in the Gentleman's Magazine, xlv, 220-222, and in the Volume of Addresses, etc. (ed. 1778) in the Guildhall Library. [393] Journal 66, fos. 236-237b. [394] Journal 66, fo. 238. [395] Common Hall Book, No. 8, fos. 188b-191. [396] _Id._, fos. 191-192. [397] Walpole, Journal i, 495. [398] Common Hall Book, No. 8, fos. 192b, 193. [399] Journal 66, fos. 239b-240b. [400] "They could not help doing it, to satisfy the Americans on their address to them."--Walpole, Journal i, 496. [401] The king to Lord North, 5 July, 1775.--Correspondence i, 253. [402] Journal 66, fo. 241. [403] Walpole, Journal i, 500; Gentleman's Magazine xlv, 405. [404] Walpole, Journal i, 503. [405] Common Hall Book, No. 8, fos. 193b-195b. [406] Journal 66, fos. 259b-260b; Walpole, Journal i, 501, 502; Journal House of Commons, xxxv, 405; Journal House of Lords, xxxiv, 489. [407] Walpole, Journal i, 508, 509; Walpole to Mann, 28 Oct., 1775; Letters vi, 277; Annual Register xviii, 167, 239-243. [408] Walpole, Journal i, 523. [409] Journal House of Commons, xxxv, 462. Walpole, Journal i, 524. [410] Journal 66, fo. 261b. [411] In November, 1776, an alteration was made in this respect, and it was ordained that for the future the sum of £1,000 should be paid to each mayor in lieu of the sale of offices. Journal 67, fo. 8b. [412] Journal 67, fo. 9. The respective amounts of receipts and expenditure by some of his more immediate predecessors in office, are recorded as having been as follows:--