^{page 5 note 1} Bute and Caithness, like several other groups of Scotch constituencies sent members to parliament alternately. Caithness had elected the member in 1768, so it would be Bute's turn at the next election.

^{page 8 note 1} In the transcript before the “Lord Bute's,” which clearly refers to Rothsay, appears on the same line with “Mr. James Stuart,” “Same again or Sir George Macartney” with the “Same again or” drawn through.

^{page 17 note 1} An obvious mistake by the compiler of the list; Robinson was never Secretary to the Admiralty. This mistake is evidence tending to show that Robinson did not himself compile this list.

^{page 21 note 1} Henry Vansittart, formerly Governor of Bengal, a Director of the Cast India Company, touched at Cape of Good Hope on his way back to India in 1769 and was never heard of thereafter.

^{page 23 note 1} This letter and some of the others that follow in this volume were printed in part in the Calendar of Robinson's papers published in the Tenth Report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission, Appendix, Part VI. With one or two exceptions, none of the letters therein printed are included in this volume unless the transcript contained matter not in the Calendar.

^{page 24 note 1} Lord North had been attacked by a highwayman a few days previous, and Bobinson had written to congratulate him on his escape.

^{page 27 note 1} This letter is printed here because Mr. Stevens transcribed an interesting Addition to the part of it printed in the Calendar of the Historical Manuscripts Commission. This seems as good place as any for it in a collection of papers with which it has no other connection than the fact that it was sent to Robinson.