[18] Charles, second Baron Cadogan of Oakley, died 1776.  His wife was a daughter of Sir Hans Sloane.—­ED.

[19] William, eighth Earl of Home, first cousin of the Hon. William Henry Cranstoun, died 1761.  Their mothers were Lady Anne and Lady Jean Kerr, daughters of the second Marquess of Lothian, and their daughter Lady Mary married Alexander Hamilton of Ballincrieff.—­ED.

[20] Afterwards fourth Marquess of Lothian, first cousin of the Hon. William Henry Cranstoun.  He died in 1775.—­ED.

[21] Probably the Rev. William Stockwood, Rector of Henley.—­ED.

[22] Winchester.

[23] Son of Robert, first Marquis of Lothian and grand-uncle of the Hon. Wm. Henry Cranstoun.  Born, 1676.  He followed a career of arms, and died unmarried 2nd February, 1752.  His natural son, Captain John Kerr, courted his “cousin,” Lady Jane Douglas of the “Douglas Cause,” and was killed in 1725 by her brother Archibald, Duke of Douglas.  Lord Mark was not friendly with his niece, Lady Jane.—­ED.

[24] George, 21st Earl of Crauford, born 1729.  Succeeded to that title, 1749; died 1781.—­ED.

[25] William, fifth Lord Cranstoun, married, 1703, Lady Jean Kerr, and died in January 7, 1726-7.—­ED.

[26] Nee Lady Jean Kerr, died March, 1768.—­ED.

[27] The Hon. Anne Cranstoun married Gabriel Selby of Paston, Northumberland, died 1769.—­ED.

[28] Mr. C.J.S.  Thompson, in his Mystery and Romance of Alchemy and Pharmacy, remarks, “About the sixteenth century philtres came to be compounded and sold by the apothecaries, who doubtless derived from them a lucrative profit.  Favourite ingredients with these later practitioners were mandragora, cantharides, and vervain, which were supposed to have Satanic properties.  They were mixed with other herbs said to have an aphrodisiac effect; also man’s gall, the eyes of a black cat, and the blood of a lapwing, bat, or goat.”  The same authority states that in the seventeenth century “Hoffman’s Water of Magnanimity,” compounded of winged ants, was a popular specific.—­ED.

[29] Appendix III.

[30] Frederick, Prince of Wales, died 20th March, 1751.—­ED.

[31] Ross.

[32] Plaistow.

[33] This denial is the more odd as the Murrays of Stanhope and the Kerrs of Lothian (Captain Cranstoun’s maternal relatives) had already a marriage tie.  Lord Charles Kerr of Cramond (died 1735), had married Janet, eldest daughter of Sir David Murray of Stanhope, and her daughter Jean Janet, born 1712, was the second wife of William, third Marquess of Lothian, Captain Cranstoun’s uncle.—­ED.

[34] Later, Lord Corehouse, one of the Senators of the College of Justice.—­ED.