3. The Rev. Alexander Jacob (d. 1785) was vicar of St. Dunstan’s in the West and one of the King’s chaplains in ordinary. He is best known as the author of A Complete English Peerage, Containing a Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical Account of the Peers of This Realm Together with the Different Branches of Each Family … (2 vols. in 3, London, 1766–69).

4. Thomas Cumming was a Quaker merchant of London, who had traveled much in America; for his varied career see above, X, 345 n.