Footnote 246: See Swift’s Letters. Footnote 247: Ibid. vol. xiv. p. 131. Footnote 248: Swift’s Letters, vol. xiv. p. 90. Footnote 249: Coxe, vol. vi. quarto, p. 615. Footnote 250: See Cunningham and others. Footnote 251: See Appendix. Footnote 252: Coxe, p. 361. Footnote 253: See Coxe, p. 619, and also Lord Sunderland’s answer. Footnote 254: Coxe, vol. iii. p. 645. Footnote 255: Hogarth personated the Ghost of Brutus, but, being wholly deficient in memory, he was unable to commit to memory the few lines which constituted his part. The verses he was to deliver were therefore pasted in very large letters on the outside of an illuminated lantern, so that he could read them as he came on the stage, with that appropriate implement in his hand. Footnote 256: Biographical Dict., Art. Hoadly. Footnote 257: Coxe. Footnote 258: The play-bill of “All for Love; or the World Well Lost,” has been given at length by Dr. Coxe. It runs as follows: _Marc Anthony_, Captain Fish, Page of the Duchess. _Ventidius_, Old Mr. Jennings. _Sarapion, the High Priest_, Miss Cairnes. _Alexis_, Mrs. La Vie. _Cleopatra_, Lady Charlotte Macarthy. _Octavia_, Lady Anne Spencer. _Children of Marc Anthony_, Lady Anne Egerton, Lady Diana Spencer. (Scene, the Bow-window Room.) (Great screens for changing scenes.) Footnote 259: Coxe. Footnote 260: His second wife. He married first a Miss Talbot, niece of the Duke of Shrewsbury.—Burke’s Peerage. Footnote 261: Coxe. Footnote 262: Biographia Britannica. Footnote 263: Biographia Britannica. Footnote 264: Macauley, p. 290. Footnote 265: Coxe. Footnote 266: Anecdotes of Lady M. W., edited by Lord Wharncliffe, vol. i. p. 74. Footnote 267: Coxe, vol. i. p. 625. Footnote 268: Macauley, p. 308. Footnote 269: Coxe. Footnote 270: Biographia Britannica. Footnote 271: Coxe. Footnote 272: Political and Literary Anecdotes of his Own Time, by Dr. King. Footnote 273: Scott’s Life of Swift. Footnote 274: Lord Chesterfield’s Characters. Footnote 275: Lord Chesterfield. Horace Walpole. Footnote 276: Such was also the case even with the great Lord Clarendon, after many years of exile. See Mr. James’s Life of Louis Quatorze, vol. iii. Footnote 277: Coxe, p. 629. Footnote 278: Mem. of Lord Walpole. Coxe, p. 8. Footnote 279: The origin of Mr. James Craggs is said by Lady Mary W. Montague to be derived from a very low source. His father was footman to the Duchess of Norfolk, and a footman of the old school, who managed his mistress’s intrigues as well as other household affairs.—Lady M. W. M.’s Letters. Hence the epigram in Horace Walpole’s Letters. Footnote 280: Coxe, Appendix. Footnote 281: Life of Lord Walpole, p. 20. Footnote 282: