The Mother of Parliaments

432

Pearson's "Political Dictionary," p. 34.

433

Grantley Berkeley's "Recollections," vol. i. p. 369.

434

"Life and Letters," vol. ii. p. 66.

435

"Posthumous Memoirs."

436

Grant's "Recollections," p. 17.

437

"History of the Peace," vol. iii. p. 375.

438

Berkeley's "Recollections," vol. i. p. 359.

439

"Next to religion," he says in his "Autobiography" (i. 309), "my chief aim is to enrich my posterity with good blood, knowing it to be the greatest honour that can betide a family, to be often linked with the female inheritrices of ancient stock."

440

Forster's "Grand Remonstrance," p. 124 n.

441

Cromwell's "Letters and Speeches," vol. i. p. 79.

442

Cook's "History of Party," vol. i. pp. 357, 582.

443

May's "Constitutional History," vol. i. p. 422.

444

Hawkins' "Life of Johnson," vol. xii.

445

For example: Sholming for Cholmondeley, Ptit for Pitt, and Gumdahm for Wyndham.

446

Raikes's "Journal," vol. ii. p. 321.

447

Coxe's Pelham Administration, vol. I. p. 355.

448

Campbell's "Lives of the Chancellors," vol. vi. p. 93.

449

"Morning Chronicle," June 14, 1788.

450

Samuel Rogers' "Recollections," p. 67.

451

O'Connell's "Recollections and Experiences," vol. i. p. 220.

452

Grant's "Recollections," p. 48.

453

Walpole's "Memoirs of the Reign of George III.," vol. i. p. 261.

454

In the heyday of parliamentary corruption, when a critical division was impending, Sir Hercules Langrishe was asked whether Sir Henry Cavendish had as usual been taking notes. "He has been taking either notes or money," he replied, "I don't know which."

455

On one occasion, in the hurry of dispatching his nightly missive, Lord Randolph Churchill accidentally enclosed a quantity of tobacco in the box which he forwarded to Queen Victoria, much to Her Majesty's amusement.

456

Hansard's "Debates," 1st series, vol. xv.