[196] Born 1752, died 1832; Master of the Rolls from 1801 to 1817.

[197] The Magnum Opus was dedicated to George IV.—­J.G.L.

[198] Whose son afterwards married Dora, Wordsworth’s daughter.

[199] At the last sitting Northcote remarked, “You have often sat for your portrait?”

“Yes,” said Sir Walter; “my dog Maida and I have sat frequently—­so often that Maida, who had little philosophy, conceived such a dislike to painters, that whenever he saw a man take out a pencil and paper, and look at him, he set up a howl, and ran off to the Eildon Hill.  His unfortunate master, however well he can howl, was never able to run much; he was therefore obliged to abide the event.  Yes, I have frequently sat for my picture.”—­Cunningham’s Painters, vol. vi. pp. 125-6.

[200] See ante, May 1st, p. 170, note.

[201] Mr. Ellis, afterwards created Baron Dover, was the author of Historical Inquiries into the Character of Lord Clarendon. 8vo, Lond., 1827.

[202] Sir F. Chantrey was at this time executing his second bust of Sir Walter—­that ordered by Sir Robert Peel, and which is now at Drayton.—­J.G.L.

[203] Lady Shelley of Maresfield Park.  Mr. Lockhart says the young lady was Miss Shelley, who became in 1834 the Hon. Mrs. George Edgcumbe.

[204] Scott had dined at Holland House in 1806, but in consequence of some remarks by Lord Holland in the House of Lords in 1810, on Thomas Scott’s affairs, there had apparently been no renewal of the acquaintanceship until now.

[205] See Miscellaneous Prose Works, vol. iv. p. 20.

[206] David Hinves, Mr. W. Stewart Rose’s faithful and affectionate attendant, furnished Scott with some hints for his picture of Davie Gellatly in Waverley.

Mr. Lockhart tells us that Hinves was more than forty years in Mr. Rose’s service; he had been a bookbinder by trade and a preacher among the Methodists.

“A sermon heard casually under a tree in the New Forest contained such touches of good feeling and broad humour that Rose promoted the preacher to be his valet on the spot.  He was treated more like a friend than a servant by his master and by all his master’s intimate friends.  Scott presented him with all his works; and Coleridge gave him a corrected (or rather an altered) copy of Christabel with this inscription on the fly-leaf:  ’Dear Hinves,—­Till this book is concluded, and with it Gundimore, a poem by the same “author,” accept of this corrected copy of Christabel as a small token of regard; yet such a testimonial as I would not pay to any one I did not esteem, though he were an emperor.

“’Be assured I will send you for your private library every work I have published (if there be any to be had) and whatever I shall publish.  Keep steady to the FAITH.  If the fountainhead be always full, the stream cannot be long empty.—­Yours sincerely, S.T.  COLERIDGE.