[959] George Hickes, 1642-1715.  A non-juror, consecrated in 1693 suffragan bishop of Thetford by three of the deprived non-juror bishops.  Chalmers’s Biog.  Dict. xvii. 450.  Burnet (Hist. of his own Time, iv. 303) describes him as ’an ill-tempered man, who was now [1712] at the head of the Jacobite party, and who had in several books promoted a notion, that there was a proper sacrifice made in the Eucharist.’  Boswell mentions him, ante, iv. 287.

[960] See ante, ii. 458.

[961] This must be a mistake for He died.

[962] ’It is generally supposed that life is longer in places where there are few opportunities of luxury; but I found no instance here of extraordinary longevity.  A cottager grows old over his oaten cakes like a citizen at a turtle feast.  He is, indeed, seldom incommoded by corpulence, Poverty preserves him from sinking under the burden of himself, but he escapes no other injury of time.’  Johnson’s Works, ix. 81.

[963] Lady Lucy Graham, daughter of the second Duke of Montrose, and wife of Mr. Douglas, the successful claimant:  she died in 1780, whence Boswell calls her ‘poor Lady Lucy.’  CROKER

[964] Her first husband was the sixth Duke of Hamilton and Brandon.  On his death she refused the Duke of Bridgewater.  She was the mother of four dukes—­two of Hamilton and two of Argyle.  Her sister married the Earl of Coventry.  Walpole’s Letters, ii. 259, note.  Walpole, writing on Oct. 9, 1791, says that their story was amazing.  ’The two beautiful sisters were going on the stage, when they were at once exalted almost as high as they could be, were Countessed and double-Duchessed.’ Ib. ix. 358.  Their maiden name was Gunning.  The Duchess of Argyle was alive when Boswell published his Journal.

[965] See ante, iv. 397, and v. 210.  It was Lord Macaulay’s grandfather who was thus reprimanded.  Mr. Trevelyan remarks (Life of Macaulay, i. 7), ’When we think what well-known ground this [subject] was to Lord Macaulay, it is impossible to suppress a wish that the great talker had been at hand to avenge his grandfather.’  The result might well have been, however, that the great talker would have been reduced to silence—­one of those brilliant flashes of silence for which Sydney Smith longed, but longed in vain.

[966] See ante, ii. 264, note 2.

[967] See ante, iv. 8, for his use of ‘O brave!’

[968] Having mentioned, more than once, that my Journal was perused by Dr. Johnson, I think it proper to inform my readers that this is the last paragraph which he read.  BOSWELL.  He began to read it on August 18 (ante, p. 58, note 2).

[969] See ante, ii. 320.

[970] Act i. sc. 1.  The best known passage in Douglas is the speech beginning ‘My name is Norval.’  Act ii.  The play affords a few quotations more or less known, as:—­