[1164] See ante, iii. 124, for mention of her father and brother.

[1165] The verse in Martial is:—­

     ‘Defluat, et lento splendescat turbida limo.’

In the common editions it has the number 45, and not 44.  DUPPA.

[1166] See ante, iii. 187.

[1167] Johnson wrote on Nov. 27, 1772, ’I was yesterday at Chatsworth.  They complimented me with playing the fountain and opening the cascade.  But I am of my friend’s opinion, that when one has seen the ocean cascades are but little things.’ Piozzi Letters, i.69.

[1168] ’A water-work with a concealed spring, which, upon touching, spouted out streams from every bough of a willow-tree.’ Piozzi MS.  CROKER.

[1169] A race-horse, which attracted so much of Dr. Johnson’s attention, that he said, ‘of all the Duke’s possessions, I like Atlas best.’  DUPPA.

[1170] For Johnson’s last visit to Chatsworth, see ante, iv. 357, 367.

[1171] ’From the Muses, Sir Thomas More bore away the first crown, Erasmus the second, and Micyllus has the third.’  In the MS. Johnson has introduced [Greek:  aeren] by the side of [Greek:  eilen], DUPPA.  ’Jacques Moltzer, en Latin Micyllus.  Ce surnom lui fut donne le jour ou il remplissait avec le plus grand succes le role de Micyllus dans Le Songe de Lucien qui, arrange en drame, fut represente au college de Francfort.  Ne en 1503, mort en 1558.’ Nouv.  Biog.  Gen. xxxv. 922.

[1172] See ante, ii. 324, note I, and iii. 138.

[1173] Mr. Gilpin was an undergraduate at Oxford.  DUPPA.

[1174] John Parker, of Brownsholme, in Lancashire [Browsholme, in Yorkshire], Esq.  DUPPA.

[1175] Mrs. Piozzi ‘rather thought’ that this was Capability Brown [ante, iii. 400].  CROKER.

[1176] Mr. Gell, of Hopton Hall, father of Sir William Gell, well known for his topography of Troy.  DUPPA.

[1177] See ante, iii. 160, for a visit paid by Johnson and Boswell to Kedleston in 1777.

[1178] See ante, iii. 164.

[1179] The parish of Prestbury.  DUPPA.

[1180] At this time the seat of Sir Lynch Salusbury Cotton [Mrs. Thrale’s relation], now, of Lord Combermere, his grandson, from which place he takes his title.  DUPPA.

[1181] Shavington Hall, in Shropshire.  DUPPA.

[1182] ’To guard.  To adorn with lists, laces or ornamental borders.  Obsolete.’  Johnson’s Dictionary.

[1183] Johnson wrote to Mrs. Thrale on Nov. 13, 1783:—­’You seem to mention Lord Kilmurrey (sic) as a stranger.  We were at his house in Cheshire [Shropshire]....  Do not you remember how he rejoiced in having no park?  He could not disoblige his neighbours by sending them no venison.’ Piozzi Letters, ii. 326.

[1184] This remark has reference to family conversation.  Robert was the eldest son of Sir L.S.  Cotton, and lived at Lleweney.  DUPPA.