[88] Mr. Stuart Reid gives to this curious name the more impressive form of Mayelstone.
[90] "Thurloe writes to Henry Cromwell to _catch_ up some thousand Irish boys, to send to the colonies. Henry writes back he has done so; and desires to know whether his Highness would choose as many girls to be caught up: and he add, 'doubtless it is a business in which God will appear.' Suppose _bloody Queen Mary_ had caught up and transported three or four thousand Protestant boys and girls from the three Ridings of Yorkshire!!!!!! S.S."
[93] The special services for "Gunpowder Treason" and other State Holy Days were discontinued by Royal Warrant in 1859.
[94] From Col. iii. 12, 13--"Put on, as the elect of God, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering; forbearing one another, and forgiving one another."
[95] This apologue (which, the preacher thought, "would make a charming and useful placard against the bigoted") occurs in the _Liberty of Prophesying_, and has been traced to Gentius, the Latin translator of Saadi.
[96] "Having become a King's Scholar, the hardships and cruelties he suffered, as a junior boy, from his fag-master, were such as at one time very nearly forced us to remove him from the school. He was taken home for a short period, to recover from his bruises, and restore his eye. His first act, on becoming Captain himself, was to endeavour to ameliorate the condition of the juniors, and to obtain additional comforts for them from the Head Master."--_From Mrs, Sydney Smith's Journal_.
[97] Two donkeys, which were disguised as deer for the astonishment of visitors.
[98] The Roman Catholic Emancipation Bill had become law on the 13th of April 1829.
[100] Sir Charles Wetherell (1770-1846), Attorney-General, and Recorder of Bristol.
[101] Michael Thomas Sadler (1780-1835), M.P. for Newark.
[102] This is the "Speech respecting the Reform Bill" in Sydney Smith's Collected Works.
[103] Lord Houghton wrote in 1873--"I heard Lord Melbourne say, 'Sydney Smith has done more for the Whigs than all the clergy put together, and our not making him a bishop was mere cowardice."
[104] The archaic signature of the Bishops of Worcester. Mrs. Austin transcribes it "Vigour," and puts the Protest among the letters of 1831. Sir Spencer Walpole points out that it probably belongs to the year 1823, when Lord Ellenborough moved an Address to the Crown in favour of intervention in Spain.