^{page v note 1} George III. ed. Barker, ii. 106.

^{page v note 2} Burke's Correspondence, i, 182. Macknight's Burke, i. 393.

^{page v note 3} Albemarle's Rockingham, ii. 20, note : ‘ The heads of the party admitted him to their secret concijiabula,’

^{page vi note 1} Only a small portion is extant in the Duke's own hand. The copy seems to be in the hand of his chaplain, Dr. Thomas Hurdis.

^{page vi note 2} This no longer forms part of the volume, and appears to be lost.

^{page vii note 1} See Walpole (ed. Barker), ii. 133 : ‘ But surely Lord Temple was not so overrun with delicacy that he could afford to make a secret of the only delicacy he seems ever to have felt, the turning out his own brother to take his place himself,’

^{page x note 1} Albemarle's Rockingham, i. 265.

^{page x note 2} Letters of Charlemont to Flood, p. 5.

^{page xiii note 1} See the letter of Selvvyn in the Howard MSS., Fifteenth Report of the Historical MSS. Commission, p. 230.