^{page 818 note 1} Percy in Correspondence of percy and Malone, ed. A. Tillotson, 1944, p.239.

^{page 818 note 2} The precise date of jones' election was almost certainly 2nd April, 1773, the date given by Percy (, Goldsmith'Misc. Works; 1801 1 “life of Goldsmith” 72)Google Scholar, and accepted by Malone (“ A List of the Club from the Commencement, with the dates of their elections,” Malone MS.36 in the Bodleian), and Charles Hatchett, Malone' successor as treasurer (Croker' edition of Boswell, 1831, vol. i, p.529). Percy' Diary in the British Museum is not at the moment available to me.

^{page 818 note 3} Writing to Viscount Althorp, who had been in camp with the militia at Warley and had met Langton, Jones says, 13th October, 1778: “captain [Langton] is one of the worthiest, as well as tallest men in the kingdom; but he, and his Socrates, Dr.Johnson, have such prejudices in politics, that one must be upon one's guard in their company, if one wishes to preserve their good opinion.” Lord, Teignmouth, Memoirs of Sir W.Jones, 1804, 162. Writing to the same correspondent from Canterbury on 18th September, 1780, Jones says: “I dined at Chathamdock with Langton and his sweet children⃛ Our friend Langton carries more virtue about him than most assistant engineers in the world (for that is his present office), or, perhaps, than most Archbishops of Canterbury that ever wore the Mitre; but really his virtue is not of this world, and, to preserve his esteem, one must be a little guarded with him ”(MS. at Althorp. This and the other quotations from Jones's letters at Althorp are here printed by the courtesy of Earl Spencer from copies kindly supplied by Professor Arberry).Google Scholar

^{page 819 note 1} Boswell' life of johnson, 1934, ii, 235, 240.

^{page 819 note 2} Private papers of james Boswell from Malahide Castle. in the collection of lt.-col. R.H. Isham vi, ed. by Geoffrey, Scott 1929, 130Google Scholar. I have to thank Col. Isham for permission to quote from his splendid volumes.

^{page 819 note 3} Annals of The Club, 1914, p. 19.

^{page 819 note 4} Rae, john,life of Adam Smith, 1895, p.268;Google ScholarLow, D.M., Edward Gibbn, 1937, p.230n.Google Scholar

^{page 819 note 5} Annals, PP.23, 147. Althorp, who had just left Cambridge, was elected; he remained a member for fity-six years. According to C.R. Leslie and T.Taylor, Life and Times of Ṙeynolds (1865, ii, p.268 n.), Lord Althorp was proposed by Jones and seconded by Langton.

^{page 819 note 6} Leslie, C.R. ańd Taylor, T., Life and Times of Reynolds, 1965 ii 247.Google Scholar

^{page 819 note 7} MS. at Althorp. Johnson soon heard of Jones's candidature: writing to Mrs. Thrale on the 8th, he says: “ Did I tell you that Scot and Jones both offer themselves to represent the University in the place of Sir Roger Newdigate. They are struggling hard for what others think neither of them will obtain.” Letters, No. 666. Both withdrew, and Sir William Dolben and Francis Page were elected without opposition.

^{page 820 note 1} Annals of The Club. Plate III. The Resolution is in Jones's handwriting. Jones as President signed first and his signature is followed by that of some forty others, some of whom added the word “accede” or “acceded” and a date.

^{page 820 note 2} The Club haṣ always met at a tavern. At this time, and till 1783, it met at the Turk' Head, in Gerrard Street, hence one of its names, the Turk' Head Club.

^{page 820 note 3} Teignmouth, Lord, Memoris of Sir W. Jones, 1804, pp. 192–3.Google Scholar

^{page 821 note 1} ibid., p. 194. Dr. shipley was the first of many bishops to be elected to The Club; as Johnson censured him for attending in March, 1781 (“ A bishop has nothing to do at a tipplinghouse”, Boswell' Life, 1934, iv, 75), it is certain that he was not present at his election. Dr. Howley, who was elected when Bishop of London, resigned on becoming Archbishop of Canterbury, “ a quite unnecessary concession to the supposed prejudices of the Clergy,” Annals of The Club p. 169.

^{page 821 note 2} Letter to viscount Althorp, 25th October, 1781, at Althorp.

^{page 821 note 3} Gibbon, , Misc. Works, 1814, ii, 252–4.Google Scholar

^{page 821 note 4} MS. at Althorp.

^{page 821 note 5} Northcotd, J,Memoirs of Sir J. Reynolds, 1813, p.350.Google Scholar

^{page 822 note 1} Boswell, , Life of Johnson, 1934, ii, 125Google Scholar, n.4.

^{page 822 note 2} ibid., iv, 524.

^{page 822 note 3} Teignmouth, , Memoirs of Sir W. Jones, 1803, Appendix, 531.Google Scholar The Duchess of Devonshire told her sister, the Countess Spencer, that when Johnson Visited Chatsworth in September, 1784, he was “in great good humour” and was “ very entertaining about Sir William Jones' learning— in short lady Eliz. and me were very sorry to leave him for the public day”, Anglo-Saxon Review, 1899, ii, 78Google Scholar We share the Duchess' regret; she had a lively pen and could have tole us more.