NOTE 7 (Page 277).

Lieut-Gen. Knyphausen was now (January, 1780) temporarily in chief command at New York, as Sir Henry Clinton and Lord Cornwallis had sailed South (December 26, 1779) to attack Charleston and reduce South Carolina.

NOTE 8 (Page 311).

At that time, the Bristol and Bath stage-coaches took two days for the trip to London.  Madge doubtless would have slept a night or two at Bristol after her landing; and probably at the Pelican Inn at Speenhamland (opposite Newbury), the usual midway sleeping-place, at the end of the first day’s ride.  But bad weather may have hindered the journey, and required the passengers to pass more than one night as inn-guests upon the road.

NOTE 9 (Page 325).

Mrs. Sheridan’s surpassing beauty, talent, and amiability are well-known to all readers; as is the fact that her brilliant husband, despite their occasional quarrels, was very much in love with her from first to last.

NOTE 10 (Page 359).

Sir Ralph Winwood, born at Aynho, in Northamptonshire, in 1564, was frequently sent as envoy to Holland in the reign of James I., by whom he was knighted in 1603.  He was Secretary of State from a date in 1614 till his death in 1617.  His collected papers and letters are entitled, “Memorials of Affairs of State in the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James I.,” etc.  His portrait painted by Miereveldt, is in the National Portrait Gallery in London.

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