^{page 31 note 1} For additional information concerning this fund see infra, pp. 143–146.Google Scholar

^{page 33 note 1} Despite the fact that the date appears as August 2 in two places on this document, it is probably a mistake for August 22. See the King's letter to Robinson on August 21 (above).

^{page 34 note 1} Robinson preserved and Mr. Stevens transcribed a list of all these banknotes, indicating their denomination, date, number, and by whom signed, but it does not seem worth while to give space to that information here.

^{page 36 note 1} It is not possible to be certain from the evidence that is on the transcription that these excerpts from a longer letter are in the order in which they were written. Cf. Tenth Report Historical Manuscripts Commission, Appendix, Part VI., p. 36.Google Scholar

^{page 37 note 1} The first part of this letter was not transcribed. It is identified as item 1384 in the Abergavenny MSS. See Tenth Report Historical Manuscripts Commission, Appendix, Part VI., p. 45.Google Scholar

^{page 38 note 1} John Roberts, Mr. Halliday's colleague in the House of Commons, chosen in the general election of 1780, died shortly after the date of this letter and was succeeded in March of the next year by Benjamin Hammett.

^{page 39 note 1} Perhaps John Roberts, member for Taunton at the time this letter was written, who died shortly thereafter and was succeeded by Benjamin Hammett March 20, 1782.

^{page 42 note 1} Tenth Report Historical Manuscripts Commission, Appendix, Part VI., p. 53.Google Scholar

^{page 48 note 1} These are Robinson's totals. The members for Bramber, it will be observed, are not classified.

^{page 49 note 1} Probably Lord Newhaven, a baron in the Irish peerage, who was himself one of the members for Gatton in this parliament. Robert Mayne, who was elected the second member in 1780, died about the time this letter was written.

^{page 50 note 1} The explanatory statement referring to Lord Essex is drawn through in the transcript, apparently so in the original.

^{page 51 note 1} After the name of John Parker there is a score in ink in the “hopeful” column, and one in pencil in the column marked “abroad.” There is also in faint pencil the statement, “will not attend.”

^{page 51 note 2} The name “Mr. Foljambe” appears in the transcript as erased, and the word “vacant” follows. The seat in question is left in the “hopeful” column. Sir George Savile, long one of the members for Yorkshire, accepted the stewardship of East Hendred in the last weeks of 1783, his nephew Francis Foljambe, who succeeded him, serving from January 1, 1784, until the dissolution of parliament in March of that year.

^{page 55 note 1} This paper is placed here rather than in its proper chronological place because all of the papers that follow in this section relate to another subject, namely, the money diverted by the king from his privy purse for election purposes.

^{page 58 note 1} The bracketed item appears thus in pencil in the transcript.

^{page 62 note 1} An item of 6,000l. for October, 1786, was obviously omitted.