Page 101, line 11 from foot. Our great philanthropist.  Probably John Howard, whom, as we have seen in the essay on “Christ’s Hospital,” Lamb did not love.  He was of singular sallowness.

Page 101, line 9 from foot. Daines Barrington.  Daines Barrington (1727-1800), the correspondent of Gilbert White, many of whose letters in The Natural History of Selborne are addressed to him.  Indeed it was Barrington who inspired that work:—­a circumstance which must atone for his exterminatory raid on the Temple sparrows.  His Chambers were at 5 King’s Bench Walk.  Barrington became a Bencher in 1777 and died in 1800.  He is buried in the Temple Church.  His Episcopal brother was Shute Barrington (1734-1826), Bishop successively of Llandaff, Salisbury and Durham.

Page 102, line 1. Old Barton.  Thomas Barton, who became a Bencher in 1775 and died in 1791.  His chambers were in King’s Bench Walk.  He is buried in the vault of the Temple Church.

Page 102, line 6. Read.  John Reade, who became a Bencher in 1792 and died in 1804.  His rooms were in Mitre Court Buildings.

Page 102, line 6. Twopenny.  Richard, Twopenny was not a Bencher, but merely a resident in the Temple.  He was strikingly thin.  Twopenny was stockbroker to the Bank of England, and died in 1809.

Page 102, line 8. Wharry.  John Wharry, who became a Bencher in 1801, died in 1812, and was buried in the Temple Church.

Page 102, line 22. Jackson.  This was Richard Jackson, some time M.P. for New Romney, to whom Johnson, Boswell tells us, refused the epithet “Omniscient” as blasphemous, changing it to “all knowing.”  He was made a Bencher in 1770 and died in 1787.

Page 102, foot. Mingay.  James Mingay, who was made a Bencher in 1785, died in 1812.  He was M.P. for Thetford and senior King’s Counsel.  He was also Recorder of Aldborough, Crabbe’s town.  He lived at 4 King’s Bench Walk.

Page 103, line 1. Baron Maseres.  This was Francis Maseres (1731-1824), mathematician, reformer and Cursiter Baron of the Exchequer.  He lived at 5 King’s Bench Walk, and at Reigate, and wore a three-cornered hat and ruffles to the end.  In April, 1801, Lamb wrote to Manning:—­“I live at No. 16 Mitre-court Buildings, a pistol-shot off Baron Maseres’.  You must introduce me to the Baron.  I think we should suit one another mainly.  He Jives on the ground floor, for convenience of the gout; I prefer the attic story, for the air.  He keeps three footmen and two maids; I have neither maid nor laundress, not caring to be troubled with them!  His forte, I understand, is the higher mathematics; my turn, I confess, is more to poetry and the belles lettres.  The very antithesis of our characters would make up a harmony.  You must bring the Baron and me together.”

Baron Maseres, who was made a Bencher in 1774, died in 1824.

Page 104, line 13. Hookers and Seldens.  Richard Hooker (1554?-1600), the “judicious,” was Master of the Temple.  John Selden (1584-1654), the jurist, who lived in Paper Buildings and practised law in the Temple, was buried in the Temple Church with much pomp.