[124] Extract from _Common Sense_ cited by Maitland (i, 630). [125] Journal House of Commons, xxiv, 568. Journal 58, fo. 307b. [126] Maitland, i, 633. [127] Repertory 148, fo. 165. [128] Walpole to Mann, 1 March.--Letters i, 292. [129] The same to the same, 5 March.--_Id._ i, 294. [130] Repertory 148, fo. 230. [131] Journal 58, fo. 377b. [132] Journal 58, fos. 378, 383; Repertory 149, fos. 398, 399. [133] Francis, "History of Bank of England," i, 162. [134] Hogarth's famous picture of the "March to Finchley" is preserved in the Foundling Hospital. [135] Journal 59, fo. 16b. [136] "I had this morning a subscription book brought me for our parish. Lord Granville had refused to subscribe. This is in the style of his friend, Lord Bath, who has absented himself whenever any act of authority was to be executed against the rebels."--Walpole to Mann, 22 Nov., 1745; Letters, i, 404-405. [137] Walpole to Mann, 9 Dec., 1745; _Id._, i, 409. [138] Repertory 150, fos. 40-47. [139] Walpole to Mann, 9 Dec.; Letters, i, 410. [140] Francis, "History of Bank of England," i, 161. [141] Journal 59, fo. 15. [142] Walpole to Mann, 1 Aug., 1746.--Letters, ii, 43. The Freedom of the City was conferred on the 6 Aug. Journal 59, fo. 44. [143] Journal 59, fo. 33. [144] Walpole to Mann, 3 July, 1747. Letters, ii, 92. [145] The peace was not proclaimed in the City until the 2 Feb., 1749. Repertory 153, fo. 138. [146] "I need not protest to you, I believe that I am serious, and that an invasion before Christmas will certainly be attempted." Walpole to Chute, 20 Oct., 1755. Letters, ii, 477. [147] Repertory 160, fos. 3-5. [148] Journal 61, fos. 23b-24, 25, 57; Journal House of Commons, xxvii, 523, 600. The City was in the habit of claiming that its militia should be dealt with by a separate Bill to the rest of the kingdom. [149] Walpole, "Memoirs of the last ten years of the reign of George the Second," ii, 30, 31; Journal House of Commons, xxvii, 539. [150] Journal 61, fos. 49b-52; Walpole, Memoirs, ii, 24-28. [151] Journal 61, fo. 55b. [152] Walpole, "Memoirs of George the Second," ii, 68. [153] Journal 61, fos. 80b-81b. [154] Journal 61, fos. 114-115b. [155] Walpole, Memoirs, ii, 121-124. [156] _Id._ ii, 70. [157] Walpole to Mann, 3 March, 1757; Letters, iii, 64-66. [158] Journal 61, fos. 156, 158-158b. [159] Walpole, Memoirs, ii, 224; Walpole to Mann, 20 June, 1757; Letters, iii, 83. [160] Journal 61, fo. 186. [161] Journal 62, fos. 32b-34. [162] Journal 62, fo. 35. [163] _Id._, fos. 113-116. [164] Journal 62, fos. 37-38. [165] _Id._, fos. 140, 158b. [166] Pitt to Grenville, 18 Oct., 1760.--Grenville Correspondence, i, 355. [167] Journal 62, fos. 161-161b. A lead plate, bearing the inscription in English, is preserved in the Guildhall Museum. CHAPTER XXXVII. [Sidenote: The accession of George III, 1760.]