Note 1.1 — PREFACE
Reading edition
Walpole’s Letters (Cunningham’s ed.), ix. 92.
2.1 Roberts’s Memoirs of Hannah More, ii. 50.
4.1 See Appendix after Introduction, No. I.
4.2 Cursory Notices of the Reverend Francis Blomefield. By J. Wilton Rix, Esq.
5.1 Norfolk Archæology, ii. 210, 211.
6.1 See Nichols’s Literary Anecdotes, iii. 199.
6.2 The following announcement appears in the Morning Chronicle of the 24th May 1787: ‘Yesterday, John Fenn, Esq., attended the levee at St. James’s, and had the honour of presenting to His Majesty (bound in three volumes) the original letters of which he had before presented a printed copy; when His Majesty, as a mark of his gracious acceptance, was pleased to confer on him the honour of knighthood.’
9.1 Holland House. By Princess Marie Liechtenstein, vol. ii. p. 198.
10.1 The missing letters of volume iv. are Nos. 24, 97, 99, and 105 (Nos. 551, 726, 735, and 758 of this edition). The last never formed part of Fenn’s collection. I do not know of any other noted by him as ‘no longer in his possession.’ The letters missing of the Appendix are only Nos. 997 and 1019. Of the four said to be missing in Christie’s catalogue, 1016 is not a document at all, the number having been accidentally skipped in the Inventory, and the other three are in the British Museum. No. 1077, however, is inaccurately described in the Appendix.
13.1 Archæol. vol. xli. p. 39.
13.2 See Advertisement in the beginning of the volume, p. vii.
15.1 The following is the exact form in which they stand in the literal or left-hand version:—‘Utia’z iste mu’d maligus t’nsirt & c’up’ia es.’
15.2 No. 38 in that edition, No. 52 in this.
15.3 It was Letter 1 in Fenn’s third volume, No. 18 in my first edition, No. 24 in this.
16.1 No. 25 in present edition.
16.2 No. 230 in present edition.
16.3 No. 282 in present edition.
16.4 That is to say, in the edition published by Mr. Arber in 1875, when it was impossible to correct the text.
17.1 No. 1033 in present edition.
18.1 No. 787 of this edition.
18.2 No. 51 of present edition.
18.3 No. 205.
18.4 No. 221.