[1216] This work, which Johnson was now reading, was, most probably, a little book, entitled Baudi Epistolae.  In his Life of Milton [Works, vii. 115], he has made a quotation from it.  DUPPA.

[1217] Bishop Shipley had been an Army Chaplain. Ante, iii. 251.

[1218] The title of the poem is [Greek:  Poiaema nouthetikon].  DUPPA.

[1219] This entry refers to the following passage in Leland’s Itinerary, published by Thomas Hearne, ed. 1744, iv. 112.  ’B. Smith in K.H.7. dayes, and last Bishop of Lincolne, beganne a new Foundation at this place settinge up a Mr. there with 2.  Preistes, and 10. poore Men in an Hospitall.  He sett there alsoe a Schoole-Mr. to teach Grammer that hath 10._l_. by the yeare, and an Under-Schoole-Mr. that hath 5._l_. by the yeare.  King H.7. was a great Benefactour to this new Foundation, and gave to it an ould Hospitall called Denhall in Wirhall in Cheshire.’

[1220] A Journey to Meqwinez, the Residence of the present Emperor of Fez and Morocco, on the Occasion of Commodore Stewart’s Embassy thither, for the Redemption of the British captives, in the Year 1721.  DUPPA.

[1221] The Bibliotheca Literaria was published in London, 1722-4, in 4to numbers, but only extended to ten numbers.  DUPPA.

[1222] By this expression it would seem, that on this day Johnson ate sparingly.  DUPPA.

[1223] ’A weakness of the knees, not without some pain in walking, which I feel increased after I have dined.’  DUPPA.

[1224] Penmaen Mawr is a huge rock, rising nearly 1550 feet perpendicular above the sea.  Along a shelf of this precipice, is formed an excellent road, well guarded, toward the sea, by a strong wall, supported in many parts by arches turned underneath it.  Before this wall was built, travellers sometimes fell down the precipices.  DUPPA.

[1225] See post, p. 453.

[1226] ’Johnson said that one of the castles in Wales would contain all the castles that he had seen in Scotland.’ Ante, ii. 285.

[1227] This gentleman was a lieutenant in the Navy.  DUPPA.

[1228] Lady Catharine Percival, daughter of the second Earl of Egmont:  this was, it appears, the lady of whom Mrs. Piozzi relates, that ’For a lady of quality, since dead, who received us at her husband’s seat in Wales with less attention than he had long been accustomed to, he had a rougher denunciation:—­“That woman,” cried Johnson, “is like sour small beer, the beverage of her table, and produce of the wretched country she lives in:  like that, she could never have been a good thing, and even that bad thing is spoiled."’ [Anec. p. 171.] And it is probably of her, too, that another anecdote is told:—­’We had been visiting at a lady’s house, whom, as we returned, some of the company ridiculed for her ignorance:—­“She is not ignorant,” said he, “I believe, of any thing she has been taught, or of any thing she is desirous to know; and I suppose if one wanted a little run tea, she might be a proper person enough to apply to.’” [Ib. p. 219.] Mrs. Piozzi says, in her MS. letters, ’that Lady Catharine comes off well in the diary.  He said many severe things of her, which he did not commit to paper.’  She died in 1782.  CROKER.