2, n. 2; iv. 309, n. 5. First joins the Home Circuit, then goes the Northern, lastly returns to the Home Circuit, Letters of Boswell, p. 341, and iii. 261, n. 2. Third edition of the Journal of a Tour, v. 4. Canvasses Ayrshire, iv. 220, n 4. Courts Lord Lonsdale, ib. Elected Recorder of Carlisle, Gent. Mag. for 1788, p. 470. Takes a house in Queen Anne Street West, Cavendish Square, Letters of Boswell, p. 267. Takes chambers in the Inner Temple, iii. 179, n. 1. Death of his wife, i. 236, n. 1. Joins in raising a subscription for a monument to Johnson, Letters of Boswell, p. 317. 1790 The Letter from Samuel Johnson to the Earl of Chesterfield, i. 261, n. 1. A Conversation between George III and Samuel Johnson, ii. 34, n. 1. Suffers from Lord Lonsdale's brutality, ii. 179, n. 3. 1791 The Life of Samuel Johnson, i. 9. Appointed Secretary for Foreign Correspondence to the Royal Academy, iii. 462. Returns to the Home Circuit, Letters of Boswell, p. 341. 1792 1793 Second edition of the Life of Johnson, i. 13. 1794 1795 Death, May 19th, i. 14. BOSWELL, James, account of himself, i. 383, 404; iii. 416, n. 3; v. 51; birth, his, i. 147, n 3; death, i. 14; Account of the Kirk of Scotland, v. 213; accuracy: See below, Authenticity; activity, v. 52, n. 6, 168; Address to the King, carries an, iv. 265, 267; Advocate, admitted as an, ii. 20: See below, Counsel; affectation of distress, iv. 71, 379; allowance from his father of L300 a year, iii. 93, n. 1; Alnwick, visits, ii. 142; ambiguous prayer, his, iii. 391, n. 3; ambition, iii. 179, n. 1; America, ignorance of, ii. 293, 312, n. 4; Americans, sides with the, ii. 294, 312; iii. 205-7; iv. 81, 259; ancestry, Thomas Boswell, ii. 413; iv. 198; Veronica Sommelsdyck, v. 25, n. 2; Robert Bruce, ib.; Boswells of Balmuto, v. 70; anonymous mention of himself, ii. 14, 56, 84, 193, 227, n. 1, 330, n. 2, 436, n. 1, 449, n. 1; iii. 49, n 2, 57, n. 3, 237, n. 3, 407, n. 1; iv. 173, 274; antiquary, an, iii. 414, n. 3; archives, his, iii. 271, n. 5; 3O1, n. 1; army, wishes to enter the, i. 400; v. 52; fancies himself a military man, v. 125; Ashbourne, visits, iii. 127,131, 135-208; Auchinleck Castle, describes, i. 462; iii. 178; v. 379; authenticity, love of, i. 7; ii. 350, 434, n. 1; iii. 209, 299, n. 2; iv. 83; v. 1, 419; avidity for delight, iii. 415; bar, enters at the: See below, English Bar; Barbauld's, Mrs., lines on him, ii. 4, n. 1; Baretti, dislike of, ii. 97, n. 1; Bath, visits, iii. 45; Bristol, 50; bear, led by a, ii. 269, n. 1; Beauclerk's hit at his talk, ii. 192, n. 2; birth-day, ii. 69, n, 3; birth and gentility, love of, i. 490-2; ii. 261, 328-9; v. 51, 103, 380; birthright, granted his father a renunciation of his, ii. 415, n. 1; bishops, on, iv. 75; 'Blood:' See above, Birth and Gentility; boastful, iv. 193; Bologna, at, v. 115; books, slight knowledge of, ii, 360; Johnson buys him some, ii. 377, n. 1; iii. 86-8, 91; Boswell, all that is comprehended in, ii. 382, n. 1; 'Boswell, Mr. James, a native of Scotland,' i. 190, n. 4; boy, longer than others, v. 308; 'Bozzy,' ii. 258; British Essays in favour of the brave Corsicans, ii. 59, n. 1; Burke, visits, iv. 210; bustle, makes a, iii. 130, n. 1, 372 Cambridge, visits, ii. 335, n. 1; cards, spends a night at, iii. 377; Carlisle, invites Johnson to meet him at, iii. 107, 118, 123, 127; celebrated men, acquaintance with, ii. 13; iii. 64: See below, Great Men; changefulness, wretched, iii. 193; character, Johnson's account of his, i. 474; ii 267, n. 4, 278, n. 1; v. 52; Paoli's, i. 6, n. 2; Lord Stowell's, v. 52, n. 6: See above, Account of himself; Chatham, Earl of, correspondence with the, ii. 13, n. 3, 59, n. 1; Chester, visits, iii. 413; his journal there a log-book of felicity, iii. 415; 'Chief, my Yorkshire,' ii. 169, n. 2; iii. 130, n. 1, 439; children, his, ii. 265, 280, 386; iii. 366; blessed by a non-juring Bishop, iii. 372; loved by Johnson, iii. 436; church, not easy unless he goes to it, i. 418, n. 1; fondness for going, iii. 180; 'would pray with a Dean and Chapter,' iii. 375, n. 2; chymistry, his intellectual, iii. 65; citizen of the world, a, ii. 306; v. 20; classical quotation apt, v. 56; Clubable, iv. 254, n. 2; Cocoa-tree Club, at the, v. 386, n. 1; Collection of Original Poems, i. 383, n. 3; collection of Scotch words, begins a, ii, 91; and of Scotch antiquities, ii. 92; iii. 414, n. 3; consecrated ground, comfort in nearness to, v. 169; divinely cheered by the nearness of Carlisle Cathedral, iii. 416, 417; consecutive paragraphs, iii. 339, n. 1; iv. 223, n. 2; Conversation between His Most Sacred Majesty, &c., ii. 34, n. 1; conspicuonsness, his, iv. 248, n. 2; convict unjustly condemned, ii.

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