Footnote 308: Coxe. Footnote 309: Private Correspondence, p. 206. Letter from Mr. Maynwaring to the Duchess. Footnote 310: Ibid. See also Horace Walpole’s Letters. Footnote 311: Burke’s Peerage, art. Somerset. Footnote 312: Private Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 147. Footnote 313: Private Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 147. Footnote 314: Coxe, p. 656. Footnote 315: Coxe. Footnote 316: Ibid. Footnote 317: H. Walpole’s Reminiscences. Footnote 318: Warton on Pope. Footnote 319: Warton on Pope, p. 141. Footnote 320: Macauley. Footnote 321: Chesterfield’s Characters. Footnote 322: Chesterfield, Smollett, Tindal, &c. Footnote 323: See Macauley, p. 225. Footnote 324: Private Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 161. Footnote 325: Private Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 152. Footnote 326: Private Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 495. Footnote 327: Private Correspondence, p. 495. Footnote 328: Macaulay, p. 370. Footnote 329: Private Correspondence, p. 461. Footnote 330: Private Correspondence, p. 465. Footnote 331: Letter from Lord Godolphin to the Duchess. Private Correspondence, p. 479. Footnote 332: Private Correspondence, p. 467. Footnote 333: Coxe MSS. vol. xliii. p. 123. Footnote 334: Private Correspondence, p. 472, 473. Footnote 335: Burke’s Peerage. Footnote 336: Horace Walpole, Reminiscences. Footnote 337: Chesterfield. Annual Register. Collins’ Baronage. Footnote 338: Chesterfield’s Characters. Footnote 339: Note in Chesterfield’s Characters, p. 50. Footnote 340: Lord Wharncliffe, vol. i. p. 2. Footnote 341: Ibid. Footnote 342: Collins’s Baronage. Footnote 343: Chesterfield. Footnote 344: Lady M. W. Montague. Footnote 345: This letter is given literally as it is written, without any alteration of grammar or punctuation.—Coxe MSS., vol. xliii. p. 148. Footnote 346: Letters to Sir Horace Mann, vol. iii. p. 286. Footnote 347: Letters to Sir Horace Mann, vol. ii. p. 144. Footnote 348: Dallaway’s Memoirs of Lady M. W. Lord Wharncliffe. Edition of Lady M. W. Footnote 349: Horace Walpole mentions this anecdote of Lady Bateman, but a later account specifies Lady Anne Egerton as the heroine of the blackened picture. Footnote 350: Those who have read the novels of Richardson, faithful delineations of manners, cannot but recal to mind the descriptions given of parental authority, and of filial fear, by that prolix, but, in some points, incomparable novelist. Footnote 351: Coxe MSS., vol. iv. Footnote 352: Private Correspondence, vol. i. p. 103. Footnote 353: Private Correspondence, vol. i. p. 100–102. Footnote 354: Memoirs of the Life of Whiston, p. 102. Footnote 355: Private Correspondence, vol. i. p. 6. Footnote 356: Lord Wharncliffe, vol. i. p. 76. Footnote 357: Life of Colley Cibber, p. 66. Footnote 358: Life of Colley Cibber, p. 461. Footnote 359: