[1185] Paradise Lost, book xi. v. 642.  DUPPA.

[1186] See Mrs. Piozzi’s Synonymy, i. 323, for an anecdote of this walk.

[1187] Lleweney Hall was the residence of Robert Cotton, Esq., Mrs. Thrale’s cousin german.  Here Mr. and Mrs. Thrale and Dr. Johnson staid three weeks.  DUPPA.  Mrs. Piozzi wrote in 1817:—­’Poor old Lleweney Hall! pulled down after standing 1000 years in possession of the Salusburys.’  Hayward’s Piozzi, ii. 206.

[1188] Johnson’s name for Mrs. Thrale. Ante, i. 494.

[1189] Johnson wrote to Mrs. Thrale on Sept. 13, 1777:—­’Boswell wants to see Wales; but except the woods of Bachycraigh, what is there in Wales?  What that can fill the hunger of ignorance, or quench the thirst of curiosity?’ Piozzi Letters, i. 367. Ante, iii. 134, note 1.

[1190] Pennant gives a description of this house, in a tour he made into North Wales in 1780:—­’Not far from Dymerchion, lies half buried in woods the singular house of Bach y Graig.  It consists of a mansion of three sides, enclosing a square court.  The first consists of a vast hall and parlour:  the rest of it rises into six wonderful stories, including the cupola; and forms from the second floor the figure of a pyramid:  the rooms are small and inconvenient.  The bricks are admirable, and appear to have been made in Holland; and the model of the house was probably brought from Flanders, where this kind of building is not unfrequent.  It was built by Sir Richard Clough, an eminent merchant, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.  The initials of his name are in iron on the front, with the date 1567, and on the gateway 1569.’  DUPPA.

[1191] Bishop Shipley, whom Johnson described as ’knowing and convertible’ Ante, iv. 246.  Johnson, in his Dictionary, says that ’conversable is sometimes written conversible, but improperly.’

[1192] William Lloyd, Bishop of St. Asaph and afterwards of Worcester.  He was one of the seven Bishops who were sent to the Tower in 1688.  His character is drawn by Burnet, History of His Own Time, ed. 1818, i. 210.  It was he of whom Bishop Wilkins said that ’Lloyd had the most learning in ready cash of any he ever knew.’ Ante, ii. 256, note 3.

[1193] A curious account of Dodwell and ’the paradoxes after which he seemed to hunt’ is given in Burnet, iv. 303.  He was Camden Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford.  ’It was about him that William III uttered those memorable words:  “He has set his heart on being a martyr; and I have set mine on disappointing him."’ Macaulay’s England, ed. 1874, iv. 226.  See Hearne in Leland’s Itin., 3rd ed. v. 136.

[1194] By Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, in 1579.  DUPPA.

[1195] See ante, iii. 357, and v. 42.

[1196] Perhaps Johnson wrote mere.

[1197] Humphry Llwyd was a native of Denbigh, and practised there as a physician, and also represented the town in Parliament.  He died 1568, aged 41.  DUPPA.