[942] Ib. ii. 84.

[943] The Meditation was perhaps partly suggested by Swift’s Meditation upon a Broomstick.  Swift’s Works (1803), iii. 275.

[944] Thomas Burnet of the Charterhouse, in his Sacred Theory of the Earth, ed. 1722, i. 85.

[945] See ante, i. 476, and ii. 73.

[946] Elizabeth Gunning, celebrated (like her sister, Lady Coventry) for her personal charms, had been previously Duchess of Hamilton, and was mother of Douglas, Duke of Hamilton, the competitor for the Douglas property with the late Lord Douglas:  she was, of course, prejudiced against Boswell, who had shewn all the bustling importance of his character in the Douglas cause, and it was said, I know not on what authority, that he headed the mob which broke the windows of some of the judges, and of Lord Auchinleck, his father, in particular.  WALTER SCOTT.  See ante, ii. 50.

[947] See ante, i. 408, and ii. 329.

[948] She married the Earl of Derby, and was the great-grandmother of the present Earl.  Burke’s Peerage.

[949] See ante, iv. 248.

[950] Lord Macaulay’s grandfather, Trevelyan’s Macaulay, i. 6.

[951] See ante, p. 118.

[952] On reflection, at the distance of several years, I wonder that my venerable fellow-traveller should have read this passage without censuring my levity.  BOSWELL.

[953] Ante, p. 151.

[954] See ante, i. 240.

[955] As this book is now become very scarce, I shall subjoin the title, which is curious:—­The Doctrines of a Middle State between Death and the Resurrection:  Of Prayers for the Dead:  And the Necessity of Purification; plainly proved from the holy Scriptures, and the Writings of the Fathers of the Primitive Church:  and acknowledged by several learned Fathers and Great Divines of the Church of England and others since the Reformation.  To which is added, an Appendix concerning the Descent of the Soul of Christ into Hell, while his Body lay in the Grave.  Together with the Judgment of the Reverend Dr. Hickes concerning this Book, so far as relates to a Middle State, particular Judgment, and Prayers for the Dead as it appeared in the first Edition.  ’And a Manuscript of the Right Reverend Bishop Overall upon the Subject of a Middle State, and never before printed.  Also, a Preservative against several of the Errors of the Roman Church, in six small Treatises.  By the Honourable Archibald Campbell.  Folio, 1721.  BOSWELL.

[956] The release gained for him by Lord Townshend must have been from his last imprisonment after the accession of George I; for, as Mr. Croker points out, Townshend was not Secretary of State till 1714.

[957] See ante, iv. 286.

[958] He was the grandson of the first Marquis, who was beheaded by Charles II in 1661, and nephew of the ninth Earl, who was beheaded by James II in 1685.  Burke’s Peerage.  He died on June 15, 1744, according to the Gent.  Mag. xiv. 339; where he is described as ’the consecrated Archbishop of St. Andrews.’  See ante, ii. 216.