Page 97, line 12 from foot, J——­ll.  Joseph Jekyll, great-nephew of Joseph Jekyll, Master of the Rolls, well known as a wit and diner-out.  He became a Bencher in 1795, and was made a Master in Chancery in 1815, through the influence of the Prince Regent.  Under his direction the hall of the Inner Temple and the Temple Church were restored, and he compiled a little book entitled Facts and Observations relating to the Temple Church and the Monuments contained in it, 1811.  He became a K.C. in 1805, and died in 1837, aged eighty-five.  Jekyll was a friend of George Dyer, and was interested in Lamb’s other friends, the Norrises. & letter from him, thanking Lamb for a copy of the Last Essays of Elia, is printed in Mr. W.C.  Hazlitt’s The Lambs.  He had another link of a kind with Lamb in being M.P. for “sweet Calne in Wiltshire.”  Jekyll’s chambers were at 6 King’s Bench Walk.  On the same staircase lived for a while George Colman the Younger.

Page 97, line 9 from foot. Thomas Coventry.  Thomas Coventry became a Bencher in 1766.  He was the nephew of William, fifth Earl of Coventry, and resided at North Cray Place, near Bexley, in Kent, and in Serjeant’s Inn, where he died in 1797, in his eighty-fifth year.  He is buried in the Temple Church.  Coventry was a sub-governor of the South-Sea House, and it was he who presented Lamb’s friend, James White, to Christ’s Hospital.  He was M.P. for Bridport from 1754 to 1780.  As an illustration of Coventry’s larger benefactions it may be remarked that he presented L10,000 worth of South Sea stock to Christ’s Hospital in 1782.

Page 98, line 9. Samuel Salt.  Samuel Salt was the son of the Rev. John Salt, of Audley, in Staffordshire; and he married a daughter of Lord Coventry, thus being connected with Thomas Coventry by marriage.  He was M.P. for Liskeard for some years, and a governor of the South-Sea House.  Samuel Salt, who became a Bencher in 1782, rented at No. 2 Crown Office Row two sets of chambers, in one of which the Lamb family dwelt.  John Lamb, Lamb’s father, who is described as a scrivener in Charles’s Christ’s Hospital application form, was Salt’s right-hand man, not only in business, but privately, while Mrs. Lamb acted as housekeeper and possibly as cook.  Samuel Salt played the part of tutelary genius to John Lamb’s two sons.  It was he who arranged for Charles to be nominated for Christ’s Hospital (by Timothy Yeats); probably he was instrumental also in getting him into the East India House; and in all likelihood it was he who paved the way for the younger John Lamb’s position in the South-Sea House.  It was also Samuel Salt who gave to Charles and Mary the freedom of his library (see the reference in the essay on “Mackery End"):  a privilege which, to ourselves, is the most important of all.  Salt died in February, 1792, and is buried in the vault of the Temple Church.  He left to John Lamb L500 in South Sea stock and a small annual sum, and to Elizabeth Lamb L200 in money; but with his death the prosperity of the family ceased.