[282] 'Wildman's:' a tavern in Albemarle Street.
[283] 'Almacks:' Old Almacks, a noted Tory club-house in Pall Mall.
[284] 'Youth was insolent:' the younger members of the University were
unanimous in favour of Lord Hardwicke, and incurred the censure of
their superiors.
[285] 'Burton:' Dr John Burton, head master of Winchester school.
[286] 'Smith:' Dr Smith, master of Trinity College, Cambridge, a
mechanical and musical genius.
[287] 'Sumner:' the Rev. Dr Humphrey Sumner, Vice Chancellor of the
University of Cambridge.
[288] 'Long:' Roger Long, D.D., professor of Astronomy, Cambridge.
[289] 'Sackville:' Sir George, who behaved scandalously at the battle
of Minden.
[290] 'Brother Litchfield:' the last Earl of Litchfield succeeded the
Earl of Westmoreland as Chancellor of the University of Oxford, in
1762, through Lord Bute's influence.
[291] 'Phillips:' Sir John Phillips, a barrister and active member of
the House of Commons, a defender of the rebellion in 1745.
[292] 'Medenham:' or as it was commonly called, Mednam Abbey, was a
very large house on the banks of the Thames, near Marlow, in Bucks,
where infamous doings went on under the auspices of Sir F. Dashwood,
Lord Sandwich, and others.
[293] 'King:' Dr William King, LL.D., Principal of St Mary's Hall.
[294] 'Browne:' Dr William Browne, Lord Litchfield's Vice-Chancellor
of the University of Oxford from 1759 to 1769.
[295] 'Heberden:' Dr William Heberden, the celebrated physician, the
first who used the wet-sheet.
[296] 'Blackstone:' Dr Blackstone, afterwards Sir William Blackstone,
Solicitor-General, and a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas.
THE FAREWELL.
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