[Footnote 1: "A Gentleman of a Sound Protestant Family allways in great Friendship with ours. Both Father and Son were members of Parlement for that Town, and were Stewards to my G^d Father." (_In a marginal note._)] [Footnote 2: "It was there (as I take it) that Mr. Lock came so particularly well acquainted with My Lord Pembrock, that great Ornament and Pillar of our Nation. He was then Mr. Herbert, a younger Brother only." --(_In a marginal note_.)] [Footnote 3: "Gen. c. 24." (_In a marginal note._)] [Footnote 4: The Speech was an Act of Councill examind beforehand in the Cabinet. "Mr. Lock saw the first Coppy of it, w^{ch} was very different; and after it was alter'd in the Cabinet, my Grandfather complain'd to Mr. Lock and a Relation of his whome Mr. Lock introducd into y^e family. "The same Person has left me a written account of that affaire; and so great was my Grandfather's Concern and Trouble, that He who of all Men alas esteemd y^e most ready in speaking was forcd to desire Mr. Lock to stand at his Elbow with the written Coppy to prompt him in Case of failure in his Repetition." (_In a marginal note._)] [Footnote 5: "It is my Grandfathers Misfortune to have S^r Will^m Temple, a valewable Author, very unfavourable to him: there having been a great Quarrel between them on a slight occasion of my Grandfather's having stopt his Gift of Plate after his Embassy; a Custome w^{ch} my Grandfather as Chancellor of ye Exchequer thought very prejudicial." (_In a marginal note._)] * * * * * {100} MR. GOUGH'S TRANSLATION OF THE HISTORY OF THE BIBLE. In vol. vi., p. 266., of Nichols's _Literary Anecdotes_, "Memoirs of Mr. Gough," is the following anecdote of Mr. Gough's precocious talents-- "At the very early age of eleven he commenced a task that would have reflected credit on any period of life; which, by the indulgence of his mother, appeared in print under the title of '_The History of the Bible_, translated from the French by R. G., junior, 1746. London: Printed by James Waugh in the year 1747.' Of this curious volume, consisting of 160 sheets in folio, not more than twenty-five copies were printed, as presents to a few particular friends and when completed at the press, it is marked by way of colophon, 'Done at twelve years and a half old.'" Mr. Nichols in his notes says, that the French edition was printed at Amsterdam, in 2 vols. folio, with plates, 1700. That by the generosity of Mr. Gough's worthy relict, he had a copy of the work with Mr. Gough's corrections in maturer age; and in a note at p. 642. of this volume of the _Literary Anecdotes_ Mr. Nichols further states, that