y: and it perhaps shows undue hardihood in the present editor
not to adopt them. But it seems to him that Thackeray's books are
not so much text-books of history, literary and other, where
accuracy is the first point, as literature, where it is not. Such
corrections could be most properly introduced in the notes of a
fuller commentated edition: less so, it may seem, in an almost
unannotated text. In particular, Thackeray's _mis_quotations (they
are not seldom distinct improvements) sometimes directly form the
basis of his own remarks, which become less apposite if the
citations are corrected.

As the text of this volume has few original illustrations some
miscellaneous sketches are added to it.

6 Lionel Tipton, created Baron Bergamot, ann. 1686, Gentleman Usher of
the Back Stairs, and afterwards appointed Warden of the Butteries
and Groom of the King's Posset (on the decease of George, second
Viscount Castlewood), accompanied his Majesty to St. Germains, where
he died without issue. No Groom of the Posset was appointed by the
Prince of Orange, nor hath there been such an officer in any
succeeding reign.

7 To have this rank of marquis restored in the family had always been
my lady viscountess's ambition; and her old maiden aunt, Barbara
Topham, the goldsmith's daughter, dying about this time, and leaving
all her property to Lady Castlewood, I have heard that her ladyship
sent almost the whole of the money to King James, a proceeding which
so irritated my Lord Castlewood that he actually went to the parish
church, and was only appeased by the marquis's title which his
exiled majesty sent to him in return for the 15,000_l._ his faithful
subject lent him.

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