Endnotes

  1. Pronounced as Tacton.

  2. Pronounced as Tavvle-Tacton.

  3. The Junta has been reconstituted. But the apostolic line was broken, the thread was snapped; the old magic is fled.

  4. As Edward VII was at this time on the throne, it must have been to George III that Mr. Greddon was referring.

  5. Those of my readers who are interested in athletic sports will remember the long controversy that raged as to whether Judas had actually bumped Magdalen; and they will not need to be minded that it was mainly through the evidence of Mr. E. T. A. Cook, who had been on the towing-path at the time, that the O.U.B.C. decided the point in Judas’ favour, and fixed the order of the boats for the following year accordingly.