ect coal, in
the neighbourhood of Poole. They burn with an odour of bitumen, and, no
doubt, misled my great-grandfather. Geology was not even outlined in
those days.]

[Footnote 3: 'Parleyings with Certain People'--_Works_ (1889) xvi.
148-160.]

[Footnote 4: See _Dictionary of National Biography_.]

[Footnote 5: Redgrave's _Dictionary of Painters_.]

[Footnote 6: I have copies of two pamphlets in which these proceedings
are described:--One is entitled 'Considerations on Imprisonment for
Debt, fully proving that the confining of the bodies of debtors is
contrary to Common Law, Magna Charta, Statute Law, Justice, Humanity,
and Policy; and that the practice is more cruel and oppressive than is
used in the most arbitrary kingdoms in Europe, with an account of
various applications, &c.; by James Stephen, 1770.' The other pamphlet,
to which is prefixed a letter by W. Jackson, reprints some of Stephen's
letters from the New Jail, wants a title and is imperfect. See also the
_Annual Register_ for 1770 (Chronicle), November 19, for 1771
(Chronicle), January 31.]

[Footnote 7: That mentioned in the previous note. See also the
'Chronicle' of the _Annual Register_ for November 19, 1770, and January
31 and November 2, 1771.]

[Footnote 8: The children were William and James (already mentioned);
Sibella, born about 1765, afterwards married to William Maxwell Morison,
editor of _Decisions of Court of Session_ (1801-1818); Hannah, born
about 1767, afterwards married to William Farish (1759-1837), Jacksonian
professor at Cambridge; Elizabeth, born about 1769, afterwards married
to her cousin, William Milner, of Comberton, near Cambridge; and John,
born about 1771.]

[Footnote 9: The parish register records his burial on September 9,
1779.]

[Footnote 10: See the trial reported by Gurney in 21 _State Trials_, pp.
486-651. It lasted from 8 A.M. on Monday till 5.15 A.M. on Tuesday
morning.]

[Footnote 11: See _Slavery Delineated_ (preface to vol. i.), where other
revolting details are given.]

[Footnote 12: _Slavery Delineated_, i. 54, 55.]

[Footnote 13: Sir George Stephen's _Life of J. Stephen_, p. 29.]

[Footnote 14: Reprinted in 13 _Hansard's Debates_, App. xxv.-cxxii.]

[Footnote 15: _Hansard's Debates_, June 20, 1814; and _Abbot's Diary_,
ii. 503.]

[Footnote 16: It is now occupied by my friend Dr. Robert Liveing.]

[Footnote 17: For the life of my grandfather, I have relied upon his
autobiography and upon the fo