ter of a rich Jamaica planter, was first married (June 27,
1786) to Sir Godfrey Webster, Bart. Sir Godfrey divorced his wife July
3, 1797, and three days later she was married to Lord Holland. She had
lived with him for some time previously, and before the divorce had
borne him a son, Charles Richard Fox (1796-1873), who was acknowledged
by Lord Holland.]

[104] {81} [Stanzas lxxxviii.-xciii., which record the battles of
Barossa (March 5, 1811) and Albuera (May 16, 1811), and the death of
Byron's school-friend Wingfield (May 14, 1811), were written at Newstead
in August, 1811, and take the place of four omitted stanzas (_q.v.
supra_).]

[105] [Francisco Pizarro (1480-1541), with his brothers, Hernando, Juan
Gonzalo, and his half-brother Martin de Alcantara, having revisited
Spain, set sail for Panama in 1530. During his progress southward from
Panama, he took the island of Puna, which formed part of the province of
Quito. His defeat and treacherous capture of Atuahalpa, King of Quito,
younger brother of Huascar the Supreme Inca, took place in 1532, near
the town of Caxamarca, in Peno (_Mod. Univ. History_, 1763, xxxviii.
295, _seq._). Spain's weakness during the Napoleonic invasion was the
opportunity of her colonies. Quito, the capital of Ecuador, rose in
rebellion, August 10, 1810, and during the same year Mexico and La Plata
began their long struggle for independence.]

[106] {82} [During the American War of Independence (1775-83), and
afterwards during the French Revolution, it was the custom to plant
trees as "symbols of growing freedom." The French trees were decorated
with "caps of Liberty." No such trees had ever been planted in Spain.
(See note by the Rev. E.C. Everard Owen, _Childe Harold_, 1897, p.
158.)]

[dk]
_And thou, my friend! since thus my selfish woe_
{_to weaken in_
_Bursts from my heart,_ {_however light my strain,_
{_for ever light the_----.--[D.]
_Had the sword laid thee, with the mighty, low_
_Pride had forbade me of thy fall to plain_.--[MS. D.]

[107] [Compare the In Memoriam stanzas at the end of Beattie's
_Minstrel_--"And am I left to unavailing woe?" II. 63, line 2.]

[dl] {83} ----_belov'd the most_.--[MS. D.]

[108] [With reference to this stanza, Byron wrote to Dallas, October 25,
1811 (_Letters_, 1898, ii. 58, 59), "I send you a conclusion to the
_whole_. In a stanza towards the end of Canto I. in the line,